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18Ramesh K. Sharma, J. M. E. McTaggart: Substance, Self, and Immortality (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015), pp. 544+xviii, $130 (review)Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 37 (3): 501-504. 2020.
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5Review of Michael Potter, Wittgenstein’s Notes on Logic, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2009, pp. 310 + xii, $44.95 (review)Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 37 (3): 511-515. 2020.
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14Aristotle’s Rectificatory Justice as Foundation of Social JusticeProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 12 197-202. 2018.The present research paper is a modest attempt to explore the philosophical foundations of contemporary social justice from the underlying spirit of rectificatory justice of Aristotle as elaborated in the book five of Nicomachean Ethics. From Aristotlean Ethics, the foundations of social justice could be explored on four fold dimension of spirit, base, assumptions and mechanism. The spirit of rectificatory justice is rectification or correction. The base is arithmetical distribution of the resou…Read more
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30Abhinavagupta, an Historical and Philosophical StudySanskrit Poetics as a Study of AestheticJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 22 (3): 342. 1964.
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25Descartes on Generosity as an Ideal Character VirtueDialogue and Universalism 27 (4): 203-216. 2017.This paper humbly attempts to explore Descartes’ conception of generosity as an ideal character virtue which can address the problems of the global world like struggle, intolerance and segregation; and thereby creates healthy routes for universal dialogue. The first part attempts to clarify Descartes’ conception of the foundations of generosity. The second part narrates Descartes’ views on generosity as passions and as a virtue. The third part explores the possibility of generosity as a virtue o…Read more
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16The Nature of Human Beings and the Moral Regulation of PassionsDialogue and Universalism 25 (2): 123-132. 2015.Passionate human behavior should be regulated by moral instructions, teaching and practices. For explaining the issue, Rene Descartes in The Passions of the Soul and the Hindu traditions of Sāṁkhya are here considered. These two systems provide fourdimensional physical, mental/moral and spiritual descriptions of human nature and a mechanism of regulating passions. The first two parts of the paper are focused on the nature of human beings, its holistic and integrative character, and on understand…Read more
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11Western Aesthetics/Comparative AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (3): 429-431. 1974.
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68Comparative Aesthetics, Vol. II, Western AestheticsPhilosophy East and West 6 (3): 272-274. 1956.
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33The anthology Dharma: The Categorial ImperativeThe choice of using ‘the categorial imperative’ over the standard ‘the categorical imperative’ has not been supported with reason in the anthology, notwithstanding its mentioning of Kant. consists of a brief introduction and 18 essays which were presented in an international conference of the same title in 1997, with the purpose to provide an alternative interpretation of the concept ‘dharma’ while taking into view the influence of Western notion of…Read more
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16Perspectives on Wittgenstein's unsayable (edited book)Readworthy Publications. 2008.The book is full of insights for undergraduate, post-graduate and research students of Philosophy and all those who are interested in the Philosophy of religion and ethics of Wittgenstein.
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14CompetencyProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 53 123-131. 2008.The present research paper focuses its objective on clarifying the arguments for establishing the Competency to use the knowledge as the intensively required criteria of knowledge in the present global scenario. For a clear and precise understanding, the present paper has three objectives. The first objective of the present paper is set to deal with definition of the competency of knowledge in general and reflect upon the theories of Competency as given in Indian and Western Philosophy. The seco…Read more
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7Comparative aestheticsChowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office. 1959.v. 1. Indian aesthetics.--v. 2. Western aesthetics.
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5Ludwig Wittgenstein, ethics and religion (edited book)Rawat Publications. 2008.Contributed articles.
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11An outline of history of Śaiva philosophyMotilal Banarsidass. 1954.Saiva Philosophy is an outgrowth of the religion characterized by the worship of the phallic form of God siva. Saivasm as a religion has persisted since the pre-historic time of the archaeological finds of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. It has a continuous history of at least five thousand years. It is a living faith praciced all over India. AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF SAIVA PHILOSOPHY first appeared as part of Volume III of Bhaskari in 1954 in the Princess of Wales Saraswati Bhavan Texts Series. The work i…Read more
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39Wittgenstein and judaism: A triumph of concealment – by ranjit ChatterjeePhilosophical Investigations 31 (1). 2007.
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78A Bird’S-Eye View of Indian AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 24 (1): 59-73. 1965.
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