Philosophical Writings

Author(s): Hemant Shah
Publisher: Academy of Philosophy

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Preface
The writing contained in this book, I leave it to the reader to judge how far they find these writings philosophical, or otherwise. But then, these are some of the papers I wrote and presented at International conferences, mostly at Greece, and were not merely appreciated but had ignited a good discourse over the issues reflected there in.
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Let me, on my own, tell you why I call them philosophical. Apart from technical aspects like ontological, metaphysical, epistemological or ethical related to realism, idealism or existentialism my papers have a mixture of Thought & Love. Albert Einstein once said, "I want to know how God created this world want to know his thoughts, the rest are details." In these papers you will find a Thought - right from the beginning till end or right from thesis to conclusion. The thought is strongly advocating what I want to say, of course, with the support of the sightations from the Giants and facts from the real world. Had my papers been simply Thoughts, it would not have been so interesting except enlightening and surprising towards the facts expressed. But they have 'Love' in it: the Love for Wisdom makes the writing philosophical, there is Love for Universal and Eternal, there is Love for Ethics and Aesthetics. There is Love for life and therefore there is Love for paradoxical and controversial. In this regard, I feel, my writings are philosophical.