Rabindranath Tagore · Philosophy
Tagore’s humanist conception of truth - that reality, as we can ever know it, belongs to human personality rather than to abstract reasoning - tested against Gandhi’s asceticism and, most famously, in his 1930 conversation with Einstein on whether truth is independent of humanity.
You learned that Tagore held reality, as we can know it, belongs to human personality rather than to abstract reason; that this humanism shaped his disagreements with Gandhi over asceticism and reason; and that in 1930 he argued to Einstein that truth is essentially human, against Einstein’s belief in a truth va…
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