Dialectics

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Dialectics is the implicit method of Upanishadic literature.  It is also used as a critique for yielding a superior understanding in works like the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga-Vasistha.  In the West, dialectical methodical originated around the fifth century BCE, and has been used in varying ways by classical thinkers, later Christian theologians and modern philosophers like Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.  The writings of Nataraja Guru provide an integrated vision of the Eastern and Western traditions of dialectics.  As such, he offers an unitive understanding of philosophy by way of a more comprehensive methodology of dialectics.

In the book, Nataraja Guru explains the basics of dialectical methodology, and applies it towards a superior understanding of the relation between proto-language and meta-language (bearing reference to Indian iconography) and between romance and tragedy as found in literature.  He also applies dialectics in order to study social problems, but in a way that varies from Hegel, Marx and Engels.  He further reveals the significance of the value system found in small, primitive communities and upholds the eternal values of coexistence, unity and collective security.  In particular, this volume provides a window for examining Nataraja Guru's overall position as a philosopher and his unitive teachings in general.  In this regard it will be valuable for philosophers and scholars as well as the general reader.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nataraja Guru

Nataraja Guru was born in Bangalore in 1895. After graduation from the University of Madras he became a close disciple of the Guru Narayana (1854-1928). As the disciple-successor of Narayana Guru he is a representative of the same pure, direct vertical line of succession of philosophical revaluators extending back through time to the most ancient phase of the history of human thought. Nataraja Guru studied under Henri Bergson at the Sorbonne at Paris, where he took his Doctorate in Educational Psychology. In 1923 he founded the Narayana Gurukula Foundations, a Guru-disciple foundation for the preservation of the type of life and global attitude suggested in this book, and in line with the Advaita Vedanta Ashramas of India. In 1951, Nataraja Guru was himself publilcly acknowledged as a Guru uniquely qualified to present the teaching and attitude expressed by his Master. He has translated into English and commented on all the major works of Narayana Guru, and has written on a wide variety of subjects, employing throughout a protolinguistic or structural approach which could be said to be his unique contribution to the perennial wisdom-heritage of mankind.

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Title
Dialectics
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Edition
3rd ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8124604444, 9788124604441
Length
ix+140p., Index; 22cm.
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