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Papers by Pius V Thomas
Salesian journal of humanities and social sciences, Dec 12, 2019
Areas of specialization are Contemporary Western Philosophy, Critical Hermeneutics, Ethics-Applie... more Areas of specialization are Contemporary Western Philosophy, Critical Hermeneutics, Ethics-Applied Ethics, Theories of Democracy, Religion and Human Rights, Philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. His current research interests are focused on the question of the possibility of contextualizing Human Rights, along with cultural critique, which stimulates themes like Philosophical concepts of Interculturality and Critique, Ethics and Reason, Democracy and Religion, Environmental Ethics and the Philosophy of Education. He has a good number of papers and articles to his credit.
Salesian journal of humanities and social sciences, Dec 12, 2019
SALESIAN JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
SALESIAN JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
SALESIAN JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Iranian Society of Weed Science, 2017
Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019
Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Think India
The paper explores into the concept of cosmopolitanism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy. Thoug... more The paper explores into the concept of cosmopolitanism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy. Though Tagore couldn’t travel fully with his critique of nationalism and the entire extent of the debate, which determined India’s destiny later, the authenticity of Tagore’s perspective foresaw the most decisive themes of coexistence of our times symptomatically for us, such as, the criticism of nationalism and transnationalism, religion as humanism, the idea of cosmopolitan freedom and education as encounter with nature etc. The paper argues that Tagore’s concept of cosmopolitanism is composed of his philosophies of humanism, religion, art and aesthetics and the critique of nationalism. The discussion that is carried out in the paper though briefly examines some of the major works of Tagore. It looks at the theoretical engagements of some of the major contemporary thinkers made with Tagore’s thought, especially with his idea of cosmopolitanism. The paper, as it affirms the contemporaneous n...
Think India
The paper explores into the concept of cosmopolitanism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy. Thoug... more The paper explores into the concept of cosmopolitanism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy. Though Tagore couldn’t travel fully with his critique of nationalism and the entire extent of the debate, which determined India’s destiny later, the authenticity of Tagore’s perspective foresaw the most decisive themes of coexistence of our times symptomatically for us, such as, the criticism of nationalism and transnationalism, religion as humanism, the idea of cosmopolitan freedom and education as encounter with nature etc. The paper argues that Tagore’s concept of cosmopolitanism is composed of his philosophies of humanism, religion, art and aesthetics and the critique of nationalism. The discussion that is carried out in the paper though briefly examines some of the major works of Tagore. It looks at the theoretical engagements of some of the major contemporary thinkers made with Tagore’s thought, especially with his idea of cosmopolitanism. The paper, as it affirms the contemporaneous n...
The paper moderately attempts to look into the conceptualscape of community, cultural communicati... more The paper moderately attempts to look into the conceptualscape of community, cultural communication and cultural critique, from the point of view of solidarity rights. The paper initially aligns its concern with Habermas' critical theoretical paradigm of intersubjectivity, deliberative democracy and the discourse theory of rights. As the study progresses, the ideal of linguistic intersubjectivity proposed by Habermas is made to stand in dialogue (self-critical) with the possible notion of intercultural intersubjectivity, in order to show the discussion its way to intercultural hermeneutics.
The paper moderately attempts to look into the conceptualscape of community, cultural communicati... more The paper moderately attempts to look into the conceptualscape of community, cultural communication and cultural critique, from the point of view of solidarity rights. The paper initially aligns its concern with Habermas' critical theoretical paradigm of intersubjectivity, deliberative democracy and the discourse theory of rights. As the study progresses, the ideal of linguistic intersubjectivity proposed by Habermas is made to stand in dialogue (self-critical) with the possible notion of intercultural intersubjectivity, in order to show the discussion its way to intercultural hermeneutics.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolis... more Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish – Herman Hesse's Sidhartha. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense – Milan Kundera's The Joke Culture and Interculturality Contemporary discussions on the need for a world ethic or global/planetary ethic cannot be situated without imagining them as part of a culture-specific understanding, inspired by multi/cross cultural reality. Therefore, planetary ethical frameworks posit their sensitivity to the multicultural reality by necessarily highlighting how they establish an epistemic link with the possibility or impossibility of moral universalization. Interculturality as a dyad of meaning which enlivens the two dimensions of intercultural communication and intercultural ethic comes into the picture in this context as the theoretical awareness that animates philosophical discussions in formulating the agenda of world ethics or ethical concerns at the global or planetary level. One of the chief insights that guides 'Interculturality' forces it to be more than a supportive dimension of the philosophical discussion of multiculturalism by merely taking into account the context of multicultural coexistence and identifying the multiplicity/plurality of cultures and the need to recognize them in discussing the moral domain. In other words, the concept of interculturality in general defines it as evoking the interaction between cultures, where the agents of a particular culture recognise and accept the reciprocity of the other's culture. While the concept of " multiculturalism " means mainly a request for cultural identity and respect for cultural difference, " interculturality " involves a communicative and ethical commitment to interact with and understand the other cultures to dialogically modify one's own culture. The intent of the paper is to discuss a major philosophical/ethical position of the contemporary continental tradition and its major critics in an 'interculturally' sensitive manner to highlight how the closure they stuck in is oriented to a new intercultural framework.
The paper is an attempt to understand the nature of Christian Educational Institutions in the con... more The paper is an attempt to understand the nature of Christian Educational Institutions in the context of Indian Democracy. In its effort to know the above, the paper seeks to situate the relationship between Christian Educational Institutions and Christian Identity. One of the primary assumptions that helps out the paper as a guiding insight is that the postcolonial self-understanding of identity is attained through democratic affirmation, which is informed by self critique. The paper aims to achieve it by two major assumptions in theorizing the problem further, namely, the interdisciplinary self-critique of the educational policy of Christian Educational Institutions on the one hand and the critique of the formative and functional gist of Christian Identity against Indian democracy on the other.
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Given, 2020
The paper aims to discuss minimally and highlight one possible way of the relationship or the int... more The paper aims to discuss minimally and highlight one possible way of the relationship or the inter-space between Philosophy and Literature. In such an effort, the paper resorts to some of the major strands of hermeneutics as they take us to the inner recesses of creativity and its judgment using the concepts like interpretation and understanding. With the support of the hermeneutic tools offered by the philosophies of Hans Georg-Gadamer and Juergen Habermas, the paper further extends its discussion in order to situate the nexus of philosophy and literature in a framework of significance, which is contoured by notions such as understanding, interpretation, expression, dialogue and communication. As the discussion goes forward, it churns out different layers of hermeneutic metaphors such as dialogue, fusion of horizons, intersubjective communicative rationality as social dialogue and communicativeness. They, the paper highlights, determine the relationship between philosophy and literature by invoking the added meaning of interpretaivity and creativity. The paper in the process also moots the idea of an intercultural hermeneutics which seeks to address the trajectory of the need to widen the scope of hermeneutics progressively to move towards concretizing the cultural and intercultural otherness. The paper finally modestly tires to associate its problematic with intercultural hermeneutics to promote and draw attention to the reality that cultural difference requires a more visible constructive hermeneutics.
Salesian journal of humanities and social sciences, Dec 12, 2019
Areas of specialization are Contemporary Western Philosophy, Critical Hermeneutics, Ethics-Applie... more Areas of specialization are Contemporary Western Philosophy, Critical Hermeneutics, Ethics-Applied Ethics, Theories of Democracy, Religion and Human Rights, Philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. His current research interests are focused on the question of the possibility of contextualizing Human Rights, along with cultural critique, which stimulates themes like Philosophical concepts of Interculturality and Critique, Ethics and Reason, Democracy and Religion, Environmental Ethics and the Philosophy of Education. He has a good number of papers and articles to his credit.
Salesian journal of humanities and social sciences, Dec 12, 2019
SALESIAN JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
SALESIAN JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
SALESIAN JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Iranian Society of Weed Science, 2017
Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019
Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Think India
The paper explores into the concept of cosmopolitanism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy. Thoug... more The paper explores into the concept of cosmopolitanism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy. Though Tagore couldn’t travel fully with his critique of nationalism and the entire extent of the debate, which determined India’s destiny later, the authenticity of Tagore’s perspective foresaw the most decisive themes of coexistence of our times symptomatically for us, such as, the criticism of nationalism and transnationalism, religion as humanism, the idea of cosmopolitan freedom and education as encounter with nature etc. The paper argues that Tagore’s concept of cosmopolitanism is composed of his philosophies of humanism, religion, art and aesthetics and the critique of nationalism. The discussion that is carried out in the paper though briefly examines some of the major works of Tagore. It looks at the theoretical engagements of some of the major contemporary thinkers made with Tagore’s thought, especially with his idea of cosmopolitanism. The paper, as it affirms the contemporaneous n...
Think India
The paper explores into the concept of cosmopolitanism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy. Thoug... more The paper explores into the concept of cosmopolitanism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy. Though Tagore couldn’t travel fully with his critique of nationalism and the entire extent of the debate, which determined India’s destiny later, the authenticity of Tagore’s perspective foresaw the most decisive themes of coexistence of our times symptomatically for us, such as, the criticism of nationalism and transnationalism, religion as humanism, the idea of cosmopolitan freedom and education as encounter with nature etc. The paper argues that Tagore’s concept of cosmopolitanism is composed of his philosophies of humanism, religion, art and aesthetics and the critique of nationalism. The discussion that is carried out in the paper though briefly examines some of the major works of Tagore. It looks at the theoretical engagements of some of the major contemporary thinkers made with Tagore’s thought, especially with his idea of cosmopolitanism. The paper, as it affirms the contemporaneous n...
The paper moderately attempts to look into the conceptualscape of community, cultural communicati... more The paper moderately attempts to look into the conceptualscape of community, cultural communication and cultural critique, from the point of view of solidarity rights. The paper initially aligns its concern with Habermas' critical theoretical paradigm of intersubjectivity, deliberative democracy and the discourse theory of rights. As the study progresses, the ideal of linguistic intersubjectivity proposed by Habermas is made to stand in dialogue (self-critical) with the possible notion of intercultural intersubjectivity, in order to show the discussion its way to intercultural hermeneutics.
The paper moderately attempts to look into the conceptualscape of community, cultural communicati... more The paper moderately attempts to look into the conceptualscape of community, cultural communication and cultural critique, from the point of view of solidarity rights. The paper initially aligns its concern with Habermas' critical theoretical paradigm of intersubjectivity, deliberative democracy and the discourse theory of rights. As the study progresses, the ideal of linguistic intersubjectivity proposed by Habermas is made to stand in dialogue (self-critical) with the possible notion of intercultural intersubjectivity, in order to show the discussion its way to intercultural hermeneutics.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolis... more Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish – Herman Hesse's Sidhartha. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense – Milan Kundera's The Joke Culture and Interculturality Contemporary discussions on the need for a world ethic or global/planetary ethic cannot be situated without imagining them as part of a culture-specific understanding, inspired by multi/cross cultural reality. Therefore, planetary ethical frameworks posit their sensitivity to the multicultural reality by necessarily highlighting how they establish an epistemic link with the possibility or impossibility of moral universalization. Interculturality as a dyad of meaning which enlivens the two dimensions of intercultural communication and intercultural ethic comes into the picture in this context as the theoretical awareness that animates philosophical discussions in formulating the agenda of world ethics or ethical concerns at the global or planetary level. One of the chief insights that guides 'Interculturality' forces it to be more than a supportive dimension of the philosophical discussion of multiculturalism by merely taking into account the context of multicultural coexistence and identifying the multiplicity/plurality of cultures and the need to recognize them in discussing the moral domain. In other words, the concept of interculturality in general defines it as evoking the interaction between cultures, where the agents of a particular culture recognise and accept the reciprocity of the other's culture. While the concept of " multiculturalism " means mainly a request for cultural identity and respect for cultural difference, " interculturality " involves a communicative and ethical commitment to interact with and understand the other cultures to dialogically modify one's own culture. The intent of the paper is to discuss a major philosophical/ethical position of the contemporary continental tradition and its major critics in an 'interculturally' sensitive manner to highlight how the closure they stuck in is oriented to a new intercultural framework.
The paper is an attempt to understand the nature of Christian Educational Institutions in the con... more The paper is an attempt to understand the nature of Christian Educational Institutions in the context of Indian Democracy. In its effort to know the above, the paper seeks to situate the relationship between Christian Educational Institutions and Christian Identity. One of the primary assumptions that helps out the paper as a guiding insight is that the postcolonial self-understanding of identity is attained through democratic affirmation, which is informed by self critique. The paper aims to achieve it by two major assumptions in theorizing the problem further, namely, the interdisciplinary self-critique of the educational policy of Christian Educational Institutions on the one hand and the critique of the formative and functional gist of Christian Identity against Indian democracy on the other.
Given, 2020
The paper aims to discuss minimally and highlight one possible way of the relationship or the int... more The paper aims to discuss minimally and highlight one possible way of the relationship or the inter-space between Philosophy and Literature. In such an effort, the paper resorts to some of the major strands of hermeneutics as they take us to the inner recesses of creativity and its judgment using the concepts like interpretation and understanding. With the support of the hermeneutic tools offered by the philosophies of Hans Georg-Gadamer and Juergen Habermas, the paper further extends its discussion in order to situate the nexus of philosophy and literature in a framework of significance, which is contoured by notions such as understanding, interpretation, expression, dialogue and communication. As the discussion goes forward, it churns out different layers of hermeneutic metaphors such as dialogue, fusion of horizons, intersubjective communicative rationality as social dialogue and communicativeness. They, the paper highlights, determine the relationship between philosophy and literature by invoking the added meaning of interpretaivity and creativity. The paper in the process also moots the idea of an intercultural hermeneutics which seeks to address the trajectory of the need to widen the scope of hermeneutics progressively to move towards concretizing the cultural and intercultural otherness. The paper finally modestly tires to associate its problematic with intercultural hermeneutics to promote and draw attention to the reality that cultural difference requires a more visible constructive hermeneutics.