Without this spiritual faith Radhakrishnan’s world becomes a void, a meaningless existence of the individual. His philosophy is a metaphysical system conceived to introduce into faith a rational element. In short we have to understand that there should be a universal philosophy in addition to universal morality to form a universal religion is the bedrock of Radhakrishnan’s philosophy. He is somewhat sceptical regarding the perfection of science. He challenges even the very claims of science.
His man is a faithful man. His man is a spiritual man. His religion is a spiritual religion. His ideas are spiritual ideas. And what he professed is nothing but the absolute spirituality. The world and the structure of religion become only the manifestations of this spirit. They are truly the claims of the spiritual philosophies.
His philosophy covers the relationship of consciousness to being. He adopts the notion of the primacy of being, but by “being” he implies some divine spirit, even Brahman, and not objective reality, which exists outside and independent of consciousness and is reflected by it. Reality is presented as secondary to Brahman, a derivative of it. Thus we can see that his philosophy is an objective-idealistic conception of being. It is not an objective reality. If it is objective it will not be independent of any will or consciousness. His reality is “a universe which was brought into being by God, who is the unique objective reality. God and spirit occupies an obsessive place in the philosophy of Radhakrishnan62
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