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they dismissed as an illusory show the material as well as mental phenomena - certainly a highly fantastic procedure. The rabid idealists were more rational than the nihilists because the former dismissed as an illusory show the material phenomena but not the mental phenomena - a procedure considerably fantastic. The mild idealists were more rational than the rabid idealists because the former dismissed as an illusory show no sort of phenomena whatsoever; however they too adopted a rather fantastic procedure when they made a mind - the supreme mind Brahman-into the root cause of the material as well as mental worldly phenomena. The dualists were more rational than the mild idealists because the former did not declare matter to be a product of mind; however, their position too involved an element of fantasy inasmuch as they made mind into an independent real existing by the side of matter. The materialists were most rational of our philosophers because they posited no mind by the side of matter and instead declared mental phenomena to be a property of a very specially orga-. nised piece of matter. This is however not to say that the ancient Indian materialists had at their disposal all those rich findings with the help of which the modern biological sciences interpret mental phenomena without positing a mind supposedly existing by the side of matter; for what is merely being suggested is that the ancient Indian materialists' determined refusal to posit mind by the side of matter makes them a worthy predecessor of the modern stalwarts of biological sciences. Certainly, mental phenamena are a function of body and it alone while to posit an extra corporeal mind as a repository of them is highly speculative.
Religious factors concomitant with the emergence of mate. rialism, idealism and dualism within the fold of Indian philo sophy are also worth studying. Thus all dualists, idealists and nihilists were actively associated with some religious sector other while the materialists stood opposed to all religion what soever; for religion is inconceivable without belief in some sort of supersenseous causation but the materialists summarily
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| SR No. | 001580 |
| Book Title | Studies in Indian Philosophy |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 1981 |
| Total Pages | 352 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Philosophy, Epistemology, & Religion |
| File Size | 21 MB |