Radhakrishnan on Spiritual Religion towards Social and National Construction

Biswajit Barman¹ , Tapash Mohanta²

1. Department of Philosophy, Raiganj University, WB, India.
2. Department of Philosophy, Raiganj University, WB, India.

Correspondence should be addressed to: tapashjhumu@gmail.com.

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.3 , Issue.8 , pp.7-8, Aug-2017

Online published on Aug 30, 2017

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Abstract :
Undoubtedly the influence of religion in searching the meaning of life is more relevant than anything else. Even men in the past were survived with the help of religion than science. Of course, with the advent of science men were being civilized and the religion we witness in 21st century is the refinement and revision of earlier from of religion. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s concept of spiritual religion appears an integral part of life which may release the agony of the individual in particular, society and country at large. The society and country are being relinquished by religious conflicts. Religious conflicts appear because of the false notion of religion. Although Radhakrishnan was a firm believer of Indian spiritualism, but he at the same time went through other religions as well. He conceived it very well that there remained some truth in every religion. On the basis of this perception, Radhakrishnan developed a kind of religion that has been attributed as creative and integrated religion. It is creative in the sense that it is the outcome of the cultivation of soul. Religion, for Radhakrishnan, is the spirit of the soul. It is integrated as well because Radhakrishnan by his sheer vision tried to synthesis the essence of all religion and thereby developed spiritual religion. Epistemological inquiry is the ground of western religion. For Radhakrishnan, true religion is not the outcome of intellect rather it is the by-product of both intellect and intuition. True religion this would be the outcome of super-science. The main strategy of this paper is to appraise after Radhakrishnan the nature of spiritual religion as a means towards social and national reconstruction.

Key-Words / Index Term :
religion, spiritual, universal

References :
[1] Robert A. McDermott, The basic Writings of S. Radhakrishnan, p.37, 2004
[2] Ibid., p. 38.
[3] Paul Arther Schilpp (edited), The philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, p.132, 1992.
[4] Spinoza, B. Short Treatise on God,Man and his well-Being, Ch. XXII
[5] Spinoza, B. Ethics, V. xxvii
[6] Radhakrishnan, Eastern Religion and Western Thought, p.317, 1939.