PHILOSOPHY PATHWAYS ISSN 2043-0728 https://philosophypathways.com/newsletter/ Issue No. 227 16th November 2018 CONTENTS Special Issue on Indian Philosophy Edited by Tamoghna Sarkar I.'The Nyaya and the Buddhist Logic on Perception: Revisiting the Controversy' by Debalina Ghosh II. 'Some logical inconsistencies in the term 'Acintyabhedabheda': A 20th century Advaita Vedanta appraisal' by Sudipta Munsi III. 'The Gita: Teaching of Value and Dharma' by Dinanath Ghatak IV. 'The Mysterious Paradox of Time: A Brief Study from Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy and Classical Indian Art' by Susmita Bhattacharya V. 'What makes Gandhi a 'Mahatma'' by Pranay Deb -=- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Philosophical trajectories of different cultures may very well differ, still as an intense intellectual practice and skill philosophy across the globe aims to nurture autonomous rational minds of free thinkers, not diluted with prejudice and bias. A philosophically trained rational mind is able to attend a conceptual terrain in which commitment to one's own tradition neither annihilates nor subjugates other perspectives or worldviews. In India, philosophy never lost its intimate ties to deepened forms of living even when it is engaged with abstract critical analysis [...] Read more... https://philosophypathways.com/articles/Tamoghna_Sarkar_Philosophy_ Pathways_227_Introduction.pdf (c) Tamoghna Sarkar 2018 Email: tamodeb2@gmail.com About the editor: https://philosophypathways.com/newsletter/editor.html#sarkar -=- I. 'THE NYAYA AND THE BUDDHIST LOGIC ON PERCEPTION: REVISITING THE CONTROVERSY' BY DEBALINA GHOSH The perceptual process plays a foundational role in giving us cognition. Sense-perception is invariably taken as the principal among all the evidential means, for, all the means are, in some way or other, preceded by sensory perception, and must be, in the long run, authenticated by some sensory perceptual base. Of course, in accordance with the difference in world-views, different Indian philosophical systems do not consider that perceptible entities are of the same type [...] Read more... https://philosophypathways.com/articles/Debalina_Ghosh_The_Nyaya_and_ the_Buddhist_Logic_on_Perception_Revisiting_the_Controversy.pdf (c) Debalina Ghosh 2018 Email: eudaimonpinky@gmail.com -=- II. 'SOME LOGICAL INCONSISTENCIES IN THE TERM 'ACINTYABHEDABHEDA': A 20TH CENTURY ADVAITA VENDANTA APPRAISAL' BY SUDIPTA MUNSI This paper attempts at a summarised representation of the arguments made against the Acintyabhedabheda doctrine of the Bengal Vaisnavas of the Caitanya school from the standpoint of Advaita Vedanta by Pandita Nira–janasvarupa Brahmacari Navatirtha Nyayavedantacarya... in the fourth part of his Bengali work called Advaitamatatimirabhaskara. The fourth part is devoted to the task of proving that Caitanya was out and out an Advaitin. For this, he makes certain points from the historical standpoint and thereafter subjects the doctrine of Acintyabhed_bheda to the test of reason, which, he says, it fails [...] Read more... https://philosophypathways.com/articles/Sudipta_Munsi_Some_Logical_ Inconsistencies_in_the_term_'Acintyabhedabheda'_A_20th_Century_ Advaita_Vedanta_Appraisal.pdf (c) Sudipta Munsi 2018 Email: sudipta.munsi@oeaw.ac.at -=- III. 'THE GITA: TEACHING OF VALUE AND DHARMA' BY DINANATH GHATAK The term 'Dharma' is often taken to mean ÒreligionÓ or Òduty.Ó But these meanings are incomplete. In the Gita, Lord Krishna refers to svadharma in progressively deeper ways, shedding light on the meaning of the term and its importance for personal spiritual growth. The Gita is not an abstract treatise but a way of life. The reading of this holy book is prefaced by salutation to dharma or the law of righteousness and to Krishna - the almighty Disposer [...] Read more... https://philosophypathways.com/articles/Dinanath_Ghatak_The_Gta_ Teaching_of_Value_and_Dharma.pdf (c) Dinanath Ghatak 2018 Email: dinanath.jkc@gmail.com -=- IV. 'THE MYSTERIOUS PARADOX OF TIME: A BRIEF STUDY FROM SRI AUROBINDO'S PHILOSOPHY AND CLASSICAL INDIAN ART' BY SUSMITA BHATTACHARYA Our world is four-dimensional. Time is one of the dimensions of it and the most mysterious one. The rest are spatial. In our daily life we experience that there is a spatiotemporal world and whenever we encounter a certain object, we perceive that object is placed or embedded in that spatiotemporal world. In life we can perceive time from different perceptual orientation and also from the different stages of consciousness and we always experience change and movement, we can differentiate between past and future [...] Read more... https://philosophypathways.com/articles/Susmita_Bhattacharya_The_ Mysterious_Paradox_of_Time_A_Brief_Study_from_Sri_Aurobindo's_ Philosophy_and_Classical_Indian_Art.pdf (c) Susmita Bhattacharya 2018 Email: susmitab196@rediffmail.com -=- V. 'WHAT MAKES GANDHI A 'MAHATMA'' BY PRANAY DEB Mahatma Gandhi's name is familiar to such a degree that there is hardly any person who does not consider him to be a friend of mankind. There can be hardly found any aspects of human life, where Gandhi did not contribute. His thought and activities aimed at fostering courage and fearlessness among the people against any injustice. He was a mystic and religious man in personal life, a great social reformer, one of the greatest political activist, an educationist, etc. Millions of people around this world have found in this many-splendored life a 'spiritual power' [...] Read more... https://philosophypathways.com/articles/Pranay_Deb_What_Makes_Gandhi_ a_'Mahatma'.pdf (c) Pranay Deb 2018 Email: pranay.tu@rediffmail.com -=- Philosophy Pathways is the electronic newsletter for the Pathways to Philosophy distance learning program To subscribe or cancel your subscription please email your request to philosophypathways@fastmail.net or go online at https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/info/philosophypathways Please send contributions, suggestions or comments to the List Manager Geoffrey Klempner klempner@fastmail.net The views expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect those of the Editors.