Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

  The demand of philosophical theory, is according to time and place and as man has nothing permanent immutable principle, there adherent nature, therefore , judge, the different perspectives of the concept to reject or regret, at particular point of time. And, therefore we find, changing perspective of the absolute. History too, supports it, by giving the brief account of rise and fall of civilisations of everywhere, and, this rise and fall of civilisations depends upon the variation of ‘principle function’ which, gives out behaviour, in a form of prevailed mentality. Now, what we want to signify with the term ‘principle function’ is that the changing character in principle of man in a way of function and in this fluctuating function, the principle occupies revulsion stage at specific point of time, is prevailing mentality. In the pre-Buddhistic India, revulsion appeared in principle function, by proclaiming of purely materialistic doctrines, it must have arise as a protest ...

  Ancient philosophies- Eastern and Western described the concept of man on the basis of metaphysics and developed their philosophies. The ancient Roman thinkers took man as a combination of soul and body. Plato made that the soul is such entity which is changeless and eternal and objects of thoughts. This soul is not a harmony of the body and hence dependent upon the body as music is upon the lyric. The soul directs and sometimes opposes the body as independent of it. The essential nature of soul is to live. While Aristotle founds that soul is an actualization of capacities provided by certain combination of the four elements in conjunction with pneum or breath akin to the ether and the carrier of life in the sperm. Soul is the first actuality of the body may be likened to that of cutting to the axe or of vision of the eye. Without the body it could not exist and just as it in its entirely dependent upon the body, so our various emotional and mental states are forms and actualiz...