INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY – TOWARDS A WORLD PHILOSOPHY
particular. That modern theories of knowledge have
recognized the social theory of knowledge as well as
the personal theory of knowledge shows that Reality
has more dimensions even within the humanistic views
than it recognizes. Similarly in regard to the reduction of
religion to the service of humanity there can be quite a
distortion of the very basis of religion which is the
attainment and experience of the Divine or Godhead
who is recognized as transcendent to the human and
his values. Modern philosophies so intricately and
inextricably wedded to socialistic human patterns of
behaviour or humanistic goals could hardly make
themselves sensible to religious consciousness and
much less to spiritual consciousness. It is the lesser
way of knowledge dictating the boundaries and verities
of the higher than the human.
Though a World Philosophy as the consensus of
human philosophies may turn out to be humanistic in
general it would yet reveal its imperfect apprehension of
Reality. Humanism urges its own transcendence when
it confronts the experiences known as the mystical and
spiritual. That is why we cannot accept humanism as a
sufficient philosophy.
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