RT Article
T1 Religion and Reason
JF Journal of Dharma
VO 8
IS 1
SP 6
OP 23
A1 Elias, D.
LA English
PB Dharmaram College
YR 1983
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1837753970
AB There is an age-old controversy, or rather, the age-old intellectual puzzle, concerning Matter and Spirit, Body and Soul, and about Science and Religion or Reason and Revelation. No philosopher has so far succeeded in harmonizing them. This same problem of Matter and Spirit had led the famous philosopher Descartes to be absorbed in the two separate worlds of Body and Soul (dualism of Matter and Spirit); occasioned his disciples to form a theory of 'occasionalism' calling forth God's continuous interference to touch mind and body; forced Spinoza to think that both mind and body are manifestations of an absolute single substance, God or Nature (Pantheism); confined Berkeley to the world of Spirit rejecting totally the existence of Matter (Subjective Idealism); permitted Liebniz to form the doctrine of 'Preestablished harmony' between body and soul; constrained Hume to deny to existence of both mind and body including 'ego' (Agnosticism, Empiricism); and later allowed Hegel to fly into the world of Absolute Idea. In Indian Philosophy, we find the Advaitic thinker trying to establish reality of the Spirit denying reality to the material world.
K1 Religion
K1 Science