The Foundation Of Civilisation: Ideas And IdealsOrient Paperbacks, 2005 - 120 Seiten Ideas build civilisations, Ideals provide vitality and freedom to propel civilisations to greatness. From Plato to Gandhi, Cicero to Lincoln, great ideas have been impressing the minds and conscience of the people, setting afire their imagination, motivating them to rise to new heights, to seek newer means of endeavour, to tread new paths towards greatness and accomplishment. In these thought-provoking essays Dr. Radhakrishnan explores the power of ideas and ideals which shape growth and propel the human civilisation forward. |
Inhalt
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Freedom of the Mind | 25 |
The Power of Ideas | 44 |
Art of Living Together | 53 |
Personal and Social | 72 |
Intellectual Conscience | 85 |
The Test of Civilised Life | 92 |
The Spiritual Mind | 107 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 16 - To pervert the past in order to gain new sanctions for our dreams of the future is to sin against our intellectual conscience. If a scientific study of the past of India is possible, it is only in the atmosphere of a university. A discriminating and critical study of the beliefs and institutions of our country is fitted to be much more than a means of satisfying an enlightened curiosity and of furnishing material for the researches of the learned.
Seite 14 - Mahdbhdrata relates how the culture was vigorous enough to vivify the new forces that threatened to stifle it and assimilate to the old social forms the new that came to expel them. In the age of the Buddha, the country was stirred to its uttermost depths. The freedom of mind which it produced expressed itself in a wealth of creation in all phases of life, overflowing in its richness the continent of Asia.
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