Loading...
PHILOSOPHY OF DR. S.RADHAKRISHNAN
V.M., SHIBU
V.M., SHIBU
Author(s)
Author(s) (Additional)
Illustrator(s)
Producer(s)
Contributor(s)
Contributor(s) (Other)
Editor(s)
Advisor(s)
Contact(s)
Data Collector(s)
Keywords
Collections
Files
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Online Access
Abstract
Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan was born on 5 September, 1888 in Tirutani, a well-known religious center in the Madras State. He was the second son of Veera Samayya, a tehsildar in a zamindari. It was a middle-class, respectable Hindu Brahmin family. Indeed, the place, the time and the family were most suitable, from every point of view, for the advent of a new philosopher-statesman, so directly needed in those turbulent days of the awakening of a very ancient and glorious nation, drowsy and dormant in its own ignorance and indolence, for reasons well known to all.As usual in those days, Radhakrishnan was married in 1906, at the tender age of 18 and while still a student, to Sivakamamma, and spent a happy conjugal life with her for half a century before she died in 1956. Dr.S.Radhakrishnan was an idealist social philosopher. His aim was to bring the ancient Indian philosophical ideas into Indian social and political realm. He believed in practicing philosophy in our life. He considers Indian philosophy is as valuable as western philosophy. But the English speaking world do not have sufficient understanding of Indian systems due to the lack of knowledge in vernacular language. This paper tries to explore the philosophical perception of Dr.S. Radhakrishnan in an elucidative manner. Bright and brilliant, with a scholarly disposition and a serene and saintly demeanor, from the very beginning, Radhakrishnan spent the first eight years of his life happily and fruitfully in his home town with his parents.The peaceful and exhilarating atmosphere of that well-known and well-loved place, as well as the benign influence of his parents who, as was common in the South, were intensely religious in the traditional sense, went far in moulding his character and sowing a lively seed of religiousness and moralism in him.
Note(s)
Topic
Type
Article
Date
2013-02
Identifier
ISBN
DOI
Copyright/License
Creative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)