Compatibility of Radhakrishnan's Metaphysics with his Epistemology and Ethics

This paper humbly attempts to do some excercise in creative and constructive thinking directed at resolution of some basic philosophical conflicts within the philosophical system of Radhakrishnan. Resolution of philosophical and cultural conflicts has remained a chief concern of Radha- krishnan's voluminous writings. The paper, therefore, can be treated as a small step in the

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याज्ञिक का तर्क है कि राधाकृष्णन की ज्ञानमीमांसा और नीतिशास्त्र यथार्थवादी हैं जबकि उनका अधिभूतवाद स्वयं को आदर्शवाद कहता है; हार्ट्सहॉर्न ने इस उलझन को पहले ही लक्षित किया था। वे सुझाते हैं कि स्वामिनारायण का विशिष्टाद्वैत, जो परात्परता और जगत् की सत्ता दोनों रखता है, उपयुक्त बैठता है। Yajnik argues that Radhakrishnan's epistemology and ethics are realistic while his metaphysics calls itself idealism, the muddle Hartshorne had already noticed. He proposes that the Visistadvaita of Svaminarayana, holding both transcendence and the reality of the world, serves Radhakrishnan's philosophising better than Sankara's absolutism.

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