Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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Bhakti: A Philosophical Discourse
- Prasant R. Dave
We live in a 'Post-Secular' Society. The age of globalization confronts us with ironies than the sources of clarity. The triumph enlightenment, - With its secularization al manifest action in political and economic structures has relegated the 'Sacred' to a strictly circumscribed 'Private Sphere'. It is parochialism.
The chanting of Secular Humanism, resolute atheism the religion is no more than Whistling in the dark. The specter of 'religion' Through the political landscapes of the modern world, will go 3 away. The ordering of society with the unanswerable authority and in universal terms. Now appears as Utter misconception in a 'Post-Secular World Separation of the public and the private sphere as defining characteristic of modern democracies, seem to be contested both de jure and de facto.
Harlan Cleveland and Mark Luyck (European Commission April, 1998) Remark. It is clear that the wall between religion and government is now so porous as to be unreliable guide to attitudes and actions. A Collective effort aided by intellectual tools, aided by inter disciplinary methods and inquires which is historically, culturally, conceptually, analytically even ontologically and metaphysically reach is demanded.
We have to understand and examine the claim of religions beliefs. We have to understand the credibility of religions traditions in shaping the structures of autehority, social cohesion and cultural integration.
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A priori support canvas, We must set 'the philosophical discourse on Bhakti.
Bhakti is a cognitive experience. Cognition being the basic stuff upon which humanly constructed worlds become possible as a higher order Phenomena. Cognition sets the limit and boundary condition for social, cultural and religions activities of thought and action.
Human cognition has an 'inbuilt mechanism of self-reflexivity by choice. Human cognition has the capacity to dethrone the tradition and its dictates.
The Phenomena of Bhakti as a cognitive cionstruct is a world -3 Phenomena of cultural construct. World - 1 is physical world, World- 2 is psychological world and World-3 is cultural world. The Phenomena of Bhakti
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