S. Radhakrishnan: 'Saving the Appearances' in East-West Academy

Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, clearly one of the early modern doyens of Indian Philosophy, remained much enamored of Western thought-of which he took the ancient to classical tradition as his model-and he spent a good part of his speculative life attempting to reconfigure Indian thought to fit the v...

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Main Author: Bilimoria, Puruṣottama (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2019]
In: Sophia
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-47
RelBib Classification:BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
TB Antiquity
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Avidyā
B Sa?kara
B Appearances
B Idealism
B Realism
B Brahman
B Plato
B Upaniṣads
B Māyā
B Radhakrishnan
B Neoplatonism
B Twentieth century Indian philosophy
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