World of Philosophy

Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan

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versality in Culture, may be said to develop a creative form of “Sociocultural Humnism” that may be evaluated as "........... The philosophy of integration, preparing an international and intercultural programme for reailising creative humanistic value ......... beyond modern evils"6
This intercultural approach to the idea of universality in man as the realisation of freedom in peace, beyond contradictions or evils, introduces a new social system of world order of intimate relation among men developing the new-idea of unity as world culture or community which in the observation of Maciver and Page, well known sociologists is ".................the historical expansion of community to the dimensions of the nation and perhaps the world." This progress of "historical expansion" is nothing but the humanistic process of developing socio-cultural relation of unity which makes the human civilisation more true and significant. For this Rādhākrishnan a great contemporary Indian thinker observes that "......................... there is only one history, the history of man. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one ..........". In the background of these observations on the historical development of human unity as “larger one", we may evaluate the significance of universality in the humanistic development of world culture. The true meaning and significance of this development lies in the process that our national cultures expand essentially the universal spirit of world culture in the advancement of an interculturalperspective in world order'. Here we find the proper expansion of creative spirit of unity in diversities that may be treated as the realisation of cultural universality in the worldly state of freedom in peace. In the observation of Dr. S. Rādhā Krishnan, a celebrated humanist, we may finally examine this state in the following manner: "The way of peace requires that men and nations should recognize their common humanity and use weapons of integrity, reason, patience, understanding and love. There are many forces at work which give us hope and assurance. Even if we fail, we should not give up our efforts. Failure we have with us always, but man possesses an unconquerable self that through failure and tragedy may rise to higher reaches of spiritual victory by the transcendence of evil.”8
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