Surendranath Dasgupta | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Surendranath Dasgupta.

Surendranath Dasgupta | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Surendranath Dasgupta.
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SOURCE: A review of Indian Idealism, in Philosophy: Journal of the British Columbia Institute of Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 36, October, 1934, pp. 493-94.

In the following essay, Schrader compares and contrasts that volume with A History of Indian Philosophy.

The author of this work [Indian Idealism], Principal of the Sanskrit College, Calcutta, will be remembered from our detailed review, in Vol. VIII of Philosophy, of the second and latest volume of his monumental History of Indian Philosophy. The work before us contains with but few alterations the lectures delivered by him years ago as the Readership Lectures of the Patna University and is published as a "first attempt to put together some of the most important strands of Indian idealistic thought within a small compass."

The six chapters (conveniently divided into numbered sections) deal respectively with (I) Beginnings of Indian Philosophy, (II-III) Upanishadic Idealism, (IV-V) Buddhist Idealism, and (VI) The...

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