An Idealist View of Life by S. Radhakrishnan. Originally published
1932. PREFACE: THIS volume contains the Hibbert Lectures given
under the title An Idealist View of Life in the University of
Manchester in December 1929 and in the University College, London,
in January 1930, substantially as they were delivered, though I
have added some passages which were not used in the actual
delivery. I have also utilised parts of the material used in the
Principal Miller Lectures of Madras University and the Third
Krishnarajendra Silver Jubilee Lecture of Mysore University, which
I had the honour to deliver in February 1931 and October 1930
respectively. I have retained the informal, even occasionally
conversational style employed in addressing a general audience for
the simple reason that the time necessary to recast the lectures
into a more severe literary form is difficult to get for one who is
actively engaged in teaching and latterly administrative work. The
First Lecture attempts to set forth the modern challenge to
religion, scientific and social. The Second out lines the lengths
to which we are willing to go in order to escape from the impasse.
The Third states the claims of the religious consciousness, while
the Fourth argues that scientific certainty is not the only kind of
certainty available to us. The Fifth points out that non-conceptual
or intuitive appre hension is at work in all creative thought,
whether in philosophy, art or morality, and we attain to a genuine
apprehension of reality in religion. The Sixth and Seventh Lectures
are devoted to a brief account of a scientific or empirical view of
the universe and the concluding Lecture gives a view of ultimate
reality, which, Ibelieve, will safe guard to some extent the great
spiritual interests of man kind. The book is not a defence of any
specific religion but only a tentative attempt to discover truth
and discuss its bearings on the general religious attitude. I am
aware that the full implications of the problem are not followed
out in detail. To the Hibbert Trustees I wish to express my very
grateful appreciation of the honour they did me and the opportunity
they gave me by their kind invitation to give the lectures. My
friend, Professor J. H. Muirhead, very kindly read the proofs and I
am greatly indebted to him. S. R. Contents include: PREFACE 9
CHAPTER I THE MODERN CHALLENGE TO RELIGION 13 - W aLiS-Idealism The
Upanisads, Plato, Hegel The Chal lenge of Science Scientific Method
Achievements of Science, Physics, Astronomy, Biology, Psychology,
Behaviourism and Psychoanalysis, Sociology Comparative Religion. .
and Higher Criticism Proofs forj heism Practical Inefficiency of
Religion Religion ancTTolitics The Socialist Protest The General
Unrest The Present Need. CHAPTER II SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION 52
Naturalistic Atheism Agnosticism Scepticism Humanism Religion and
Humanism Pragmatism Modernism Authori tarianism Lack of the
Spiritual Note. CHAPTER III RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND ITS
AFFIRMATIONS 84 WMUs, Philosophy Religion - The sjgJj of
Religion-Personal Experience of God Its Character and Content Expe
rience and the Variety of Expressions God and Self The World a
Harmony Self-Recognition and the Way to It The Life of the Reborn
Rebirtli Salvation Summary. CHAPTER IV INTELLECT AND INTUITION 127
The Eastern Emphasis on Creative Intuition The Western Emphasis on
Critical Intelligence Different Ways ofKnowing Bradley, Bergson and
Croce on Conceptual Knowledge Intuitive Knowing Self-Know ledge -
6amliara, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Bergson - J
ntuition and Imagina tion Intellect Hegel and Bergsof The Need for
Intuition in Philosophy Pla o Aristotle Descartes Spinoza Leibni z
Pascal Kant Hegel...
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