Articles
Genesis of Modern Indian Philosophy in the Bengal Renaissance
Tatiana Skorokhodova
Vostok/Oriens '2017, №3
The foundations of so-called “philosophical renaissance” in Modern India are described in the article based on the works by Bengal intellectuals. The genesis of Modern Indian philosophy is a two-fold process: 1) discovery of classical philosophical schools (dārșanas) along with its interpretations, and 2) the choice of dārșanas for a development of philosophy and philosophizing in Modern India. Both processes developed as a triadic movement of thought (thesis – antithesis – synthesis): the first one from defense of orthodox dārșanas to discovery of its specificity in juxtaposition with another Western philosophies and call to objective research of Indian philosophy; the second process is from the choice of vedanta by Rammohun Roy to the attention for sankhya by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and then to the development of Neo-Vedanta as synthetic and universalistic system by Swami Vivekananda. The grounding of Neo-Vedantism become the basic foundation for the development of Indian philosophy in the twentieth century.
Keywords: history of Indian Philosophy, the Bengal Renaissance, understanding, philosophical tradition, choice, dārșanas, vedanta, sankhya, yoga, Neo-Vedantism
Pages: С. 94–105
