نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی
نویسنده
University of Mumbai
چکیده
Abstract
The paper concentrates on the philosophical discourses of four thinkers – Soren Kierkegaard, M. K. Gandhi, R. D. Ranade and B. R. Ambedkar on Ethics and Religion. Sore Kierkegaard, whose journey in philosophy made him pass through the aesthetic stage to ethical stage and ultimately landed in the realm of “faith”; where an individual arrives at without any rational commitment. M. K. Gandhi, whose journey in life encompassed politics, economics, and social realms where the underlying paradigm has always been religion. He did not consider Truth and therefore ethics as segregated from religion. R. D. Ranade, while mentioning the criteria of mystical experience, very empathetically mentions that a mystic (a saint) has the element of universality, is intellectual, emotional, has the intuitive experience of ‘spiritual realization’ and cannot be devoid of morality. B. R. Ambedkar, instead of accepting Christianity or Islam, consecrated into Buddhism; that befitted Indian contextual situation critiquing the popular Brahmanism. He believed that, ‘Religion, if it is to survive, it must be inconsonance with reason, which is another name for science. And this criterion was fulfilled by Buddhism (indeed with other criteria). The research article concludes by comparing these masters’ views and ideologies in the context of ‘a possibility of ethical religion’.
کلیدواژهها
- Religion(s)
- Concept of God
- Faith
- Subjectivity
- Intuition
- Social emancipation/ Transformation/ Reformation
موضوعات
عنوان مقاله [English]
Is Ethical Religion Possible?
نویسنده [English]
- Amita Valmiki
University of Mumbai
چکیده [English]
Abstract
The paper concentrates on the philosophical discourses of four thinkers – Soren Kierkegaard, M. K. Gandhi, R. D. Ranade and B. R. Ambedkar on Ethics and Religion. Sore Kierkegaard, whose journey in philosophy made him pass through the aesthetic stage to ethical stage and ultimately landed in the realm of “faith”; where an individual arrives at without any rational commitment. M. K. Gandhi, whose journey in life encompassed politics, economics, and social realms where the underlying paradigm has always been religion. He did not consider Truth and therefore ethics as segregated from religion. R. D. Ranade, while mentioning the criteria of mystical experience, very empathetically mentions that a mystic (a saint) has the element of universality, is intellectual, emotional, has the intuitive experience of ‘spiritual realization’ and cannot be devoid of morality. B. R. Ambedkar, instead of accepting Christianity or Islam, consecrated into Buddhism; that befitted Indian contextual situation critiquing the popular Brahmanism. He believed that, ‘Religion, if it is to survive, it must be inconsonance with reason, which is another name for science. And this criterion was fulfilled by Buddhism (indeed with other criteria). The research article concludes by comparing these masters’ views and ideologies in the context of ‘a possibility of ethical religion’.
کلیدواژهها [English]
- Religion(s)
- Concept of God
- Faith
- Subjectivity
- Intuition
- Social emancipation/ Transformation/ Reformation
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