Prof. Pande’s present work Consciousness Value Culture is a sequel to his earlier works Meaning and Process of Culture: A philosophy of History and Mulyamimamsa. It incorporates and carries forward their investigations into Value, Culture and History. It seeks to outline a philosophy of culture as the social and historical expression of the inner value seeking character of consciousness. It may also be alternatively described as a search for a Philosophy of History. Religion and Social ethics, philosophy and art are integral dimensions of culture. The manifold ways of Life and Thought, which make the fabric of culture can be explored by participant observation, historical enquiry, the hermeneutic exploration of symbols and the dialectic of self-consciousness. History is the process by which self-consciousness actualizes itself in soc8ial time. The present work argues that the attempt to understand culture in some specific historical self consciousness. At the same time the attempt to understand the meaning of history tends to show the inadequacy of merely contingent facts and the need for discovering the ideal principles, which are dialectically given in self-consciousness and illumine the realms of culture. Consciousness, value and culture are at once temporal and timeless, a flux which, reflects eternity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Govind Chandra Pande
Govind Chandra Pande (b. 1923) is a thinker, scholar and writer. He has taught as Professor in allahabad, Gorakhpur, Rajasthan (Jaipur) and B.H.U. He has lectured, travelled and published widely. He is a fellow of the sahitya Akademi. Prof. Pande has been awarded the degree of D.Lit. honoris causa of Several Universities and he has also been awarded the honorary degrees of Vidyavaridhi, Sahitya Vacaspati, Vakpati and Mahamahopa-dhyaya. He is the recipient of several national awards: Sankara Sammana, Vigyana Darsana,Saraswati Sammana, Murtidevi Sammana, Srivani Nyas-Alankarana, Mangala Prasad paritosika, Visva Bharati Sammana, Kabira Sammana etc. Among his philosophical writing most notable are Meaning and Process of Culture, Mulya-Mimamasa, Sankaracarya: Vicara aur Sandarbha, Life and thought of Sankaracarya, Baudha Dharma ke Vikasa ka Itihasa, Aspects of Mahayana, annotaged translations of Nyayabindu and Apohasiddhi. the three Vimarsas viz. Bhaktidarsana-Vimarsah, Saundaryadarsana-Vimarsah, Ekam Sadviprah Bahudha Vadanti are in Sanskrit. His contributions to culture and history include Studies in the Origins of Buddhism, Foundations of Indian culture, Bharatiya Paramapara ke Mulasvara, Vaidika Samskrit, Bharatiya Samaja. He is currently working in the well-known Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture for which he has edited several volumes. He was elected president of the Bharatiya Darshan Parishad, Baroda and Pune sessions, presided over the Indian Philosophy Congress at Madurai Session. He was a member of the ICPR and also its national lecturer of philosophy in 2000-2002. The ICPR organized a special National Seminar on his Thought and Works in 2003. He has been president of the Indian History and Cultural Society (1978), Indian Archaeological Society (1978), Indian Art History Society (1978), Indian Art History Society (2002). He was member, ICHR for two terms and its first national fellow (1985).
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