Religious pluralism

2. LIFE SKETCH
• Sarvepalli Radhakrihnan- born- september 5 1888, telugu family,
tiruttani, India.(came to be observed as teacher’s day)
• Teaching career- Professor of philosophy
• Chairman of the UGC
• Leader of the first indian team to the UNESCO
• IN 1952- elected- first vice president
• In 1962- elected second president
• Awarded the Bharat h Ratna- 1967
• Died on april 17 ,1975

3. HIS PHILOSOPHY
• His philosophy is idealism
• Philosophy and education go hand in hand
• Ideals and values are the dynamic force which help to achieve goal
• Moksha, Nirvana, eternal life- realisation of life’s fullest possiblity
• One’s philosophy of life should guide the individual’s life and action
• Liberation is the realisatioin of the self in its pure nature
• The ultimate reality is the God

4. METAPHYSICS
• His metaphysics was grounded in Advaita Vedanta
• According to him Maya is not an illusion- it indicates mis perception of
the world

5. EPISTEMOLOGY:INTUITION AND RELIGIOUS
EXPERIENCE
• According to him intuition or Anubhava is an integral experience or
religious experience
• The 5 sorts of experiences are
1. Cognitive experience
2. Psyschic experience
3. Aesthetic experience
4. Ethical experience
5. Religious experience

6. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
• Dr. Radhakrishnan was highly in influenced by Advaita Vedanta, philosophy of Hinduism
• He has been a deeply religious man
• He had faith in Hinduism
• He was not against any religion
• He thinks that the religion cannot be restricted
• He regards the spirit of religion as the real religion
• He points to the universalness of Hinduism
• Religious values have always been changing
• According to Radhakrishnan religion has a place of crucial importance.religion introduces a new sense, a
totally new set of values. It is a personal encounter of the individual with the supreme
• Radhakrishnan holds, “ a kind of life or experience”. It is anm insight tointo the nature of reality or
experience of reality
• Radhakrishnan charcterise religion in terms of” personal experience”
• All persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and right to freely, speak profess, practice and
propagate religion
• Advaitha Vedanta is the genuine authority for all religions

7. EDUCATIONAL THOUGHTS OF RADHAKRISHNAN
• He defines education as the instrument for social, economic and
cultural change
• The basis of educational theory is psychology
• Education is the harmonious development different functions of man
• Education should develop in the minds of students a love of sustained
thinking, adherence to truth and the power of resistence to sentiments

8. HIS CONCEPTS OF EDUCATION
• He defines education as- the instrument for social, economic and
cultural change. For social and national integration education should be
properly utiliseds

9. HIS EDUCATIONAL VIEWS
1. Aim of education-
• To teach that life has meaning
• To train self development
• National integration
• International understanding
• Acquire cultural heritage

10. CURRICULUM
• Study three languages- mothertongue , federal language Hindi and link
language English
• His curriculum based on idealistic thoughts
• He gives the importance to the study of Sanskrit
• Social science is concerned with our relationship to values
• Science and technology is concerned with our relationship nature
• For women education he suggested subjects like literature, history,
sciene, religion, ethics etc…
• He gives importance to physical exercise and activities
• He gives importance to value education

11. METHOD OF TEACHING
• he emphasised two things- what to teach, how to teach
• What to teach means content and how to teach means methodology
• Method of teaching- cannot be lecture
• Regular practice in yoga and meditation
• Self learning and reasoning

12. ROLE OF TEACHER
• According to him success of an education depends on qualification and
character of teacher
• Teacher is the corner stone of eduaction
• Love of the pupils is the quality of successful teacher
• According to him Guru is combination of two words- GU means
“darkness” and RU means to “remove”
• Teacher should have self control
• Teacher must be the master in the field of study

13. DISCIPLINE
• He advocated self discipline
• Discipline lead to self realisation
• Train the youth to the best possible all round individual

14. HIS CONTRIBUTION
• He introduced western idealism into Indian philosophy
• His idealism gives us a balanced and true picture of relation between
individual and society
• His philosophy of education is based upon psychological and
sociological foundations
• The report of UGC also called Dr. Radhakrishnan commission is an
important document in the development university education in India

15. CONCEPT OF PUPIL
• The progress of education should be able to create mental detachment
and objectivity
• He felt that the university had the responsibility of inculcatuing liberal
outlook
• Dr. Radhakrishnan was full of the values of Indian’s rich tradition
• He was craeful to distinguish between outmoded and outdated values