Book Title: Sambodhi 1989 Vol 16
Author(s): Ramesh S Betai, Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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________________ 141 transcendence. It, therefore, appears to LIS that the Visistadvaita of Sri Svaninarayana best serves the purposes of Radhakrishnan's philosophizing. We conclude this paper with the observation that unless Radhakrishnan's metaphysical position is revised along the lines suggested above, it is not possible to reconcile it with his cpistemology and ethics. Again, unless Radhakrishnan's metaphysics is brought in logical harmony with his epistemology and ethics, his system cannot satisfy the claims of both religion and philosophy. And this is what Radhakrishnan very much wanted to do. As this paper has been written as a tribute to Radhakrishnan, a reference to Radhakrishnan's advice to writers on philosophy will not be considered as irrelevent. After praising Plato and Samkarācārya as "masters in the art of tempering the rigour of their argument with that larger utterance which is the soul of true literaturc,"46 Radhakrishnan has written that "writers on philosophy sometimes require to be reminded of Landor's warning: 'clear writers like fountains do not seem as deep as they are, the turbid look most profound'." 47 As it is only through clear presentation that writers on philosophy can help real advancement in philosophical wisdom, the students of philosophy should always most vigilantly search for clarity in both understanding and presentaion of philosophical ideas. NOTES N. B. The following is the list of abbreviations used in these notes : CIP ... Radhakrishnan's statement of his philosophy under the title "the spirit in Man': S. Radhakrislinan and J. H. Muirhead (Editors): Contemporary Indian philosophy (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1952) IVL ... S. Radhakrishnan : An Idealist View of Life (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1951) PR ... Schilpp Paul Arthur (Editor) : The philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (The Library of Living philosophers, Tudor Publishing Company, N. Y. 1952) RS... S. Radhak S. Radhakrishnan : Religion and Society (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1948) 1. CIP, p. 485 2. D. M. Datta : The chief Currents of Contemporary Philosophy (Univer sity of Calcutta, 1961) p. 136

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