Indian Mind Essentials Of Indian Philosophy And Culture

Author(s): Richard H Robinson
Publisher: Richard H Robinson

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98 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL ACTION the next stage. Such failure to distinguish the Indian, the Sino-Japanese, the European, and the author's own ideas runs through the whole article. This piece does not achieve the editor's aim of rounding out the picture where the Hindu contributors had little to say, but it does inadvertently provide a comparison which is very complimentary to "the Indian mind." The volume as a whole provides a very serviceable companion to Radhakrishnan and Moore's A Source Book in Indian Philosophy. There is no better anthology of topical articles bridging the texts in translation to the student's own philosophical language and problems. A consideration running throughout this review has been to enable the nonspecialist reader to place these articles within the context of Indian intellectual history. I should add that most of the contributors shine better in debate than in the expository format, and that many of them have significally modified their views in the intervening years. The volume is a set of still photographs taken years ago of an illustrious group whose generation is now passing rapidly off the Indian intellectual stage. RICHARD H. ROBINSON (Courtesy : Philosophy East & West) University of Wisconsin THE SILENT SINNERS In the face of affluence of poverty and the hanjurian suffering the defenders of the status quo and those who speak for spiritual methods of social revolution are in fact the silent sinners of the invisible war perpetuated in the Third World where living corpses, shadows of human beings, hopless men, women, and children victimised in an endless perpetuaty by the oppressive and unjust system, and where their remnants of life are devoured by tuberculosis-schistosomiasis, infant diarrhea, etc. by the myriad diseases of poverty but most of which are termed by the civilised haves as "tropical diseases." In fact in the modern advancement of science and technology such diseases have become the phenomenon of the past. - Editorial, PSA, Vol. I, No. 1