Philosophical Reflections (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

In this work, the author reflects on some aspects of Indian philosophy, especially on points connected with Buddhism, Vedanta, and Values. Although his approach towards reflection is primarily philosophical and fundamentally analytical in character, the author, in this work, does not confine himself to what may be called 'hardcore' analytical philosophy in elucidating notions of 'common-ism', 'values', etc. the method adopted is still analytical and critical. And even when he is engaged in assessing critically the specific nature of the contribution of various types of analytical philosophy, he ventures into what he considers to be 'free thinking', free not from a logical point of view but from the compelling images of 'hard core' analytic thought.

The author has taken care to revise the already existing eighteen chapters of the earlier edition whose contents, however, remain more or less unchanged, while he has added three more chapters in this revised and enlarged second edition.

About the Author:

G.C. Nayak, born and brought up at Cuttack (Orissa), India, was the best graduate of Utkal Univeristy in 1954, 1^st Class 1^st M.A. (Philosophy) at Allahabad in 1956, and got his Ph.D. from the Bristol University, U.K. as a Commonwealth scholar in the year 1965. He was Professor and Head of the Post-Graduate Department of Philosophy of Utkal University from 1978 to 1989 and the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Jagannath Sanskrit Vishvavidyalaya, Puri from 1989 to 1992, Visiting Professor in the Department of Buddhist Studies and Philosophy at Nagarjuna University from 1992 to 1994, and in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1995, he was the Senior Fellow, ICPR during 1996-98, and UGC Emeritus Fellow, at BHU, Varanasi during 1999-2000. Presently, he is a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla since 2001.

Professor Nayak has been the General President of the Indian Philosophical Congress in 1992, and of the Akhil Bharatiya Darshan Parishad in 2001.

Some of his important publications are Evil, Karma, and Reincarnation (1973), Essays in Analytical Philosophy (1978), Analytical Studies in Buddhist Philosophy (edited) (1984), Philosophical Reflections (1987), Nehru and Indian Culture (edited) (1990), Evil and the Retributive Hypothesis (1993), Philosophical Enterprise and the Scientific Spirit (1994), Understanding Religious Phenomenon (1997), and Madhyamika Sunyata (2001).

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