Some Thoughts on Tagore as a Thinker
This paper compares Tagore’s thoughts on truth and nationhood with those of Nietzsche and Einstein. As against Einstein’s definition of truth independent of human agencies, Tagore opines that truth is defined and interpreted by human exigencies, and, otherwise, truth cannot prevail. Likewise Tagore...
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This paper compares Tagore’s thoughts on truth and nationhood with those of Nietzsche and Einstein. As against Einstein’s definition of truth independent of human agencies, Tagore opines that truth is defined and interpreted by human exigencies, and, otherwise, truth cannot prevail. Likewise Tagore’s sense of nationhood ls based on a comprehensive realization of the human potentialities, which is different from Nietzsche’s Eurocentric critique of nationalism. It also deals critically with Tagore’s mysticism.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7ea544b158ae40a4bb5c36a1072da0172023-10-16T04:23:32ZengULAB PressCrossings2071-11072958-31792008-12-011110.59817/cjes.v1i1.419Some Thoughts on Tagore as a ThinkerKaiser Haq0Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka This paper compares Tagore’s thoughts on truth and nationhood with those of Nietzsche and Einstein. As against Einstein’s definition of truth independent of human agencies, Tagore opines that truth is defined and interpreted by human exigencies, and, otherwise, truth cannot prevail. Likewise Tagore’s sense of nationhood ls based on a comprehensive realization of the human potentialities, which is different from Nietzsche’s Eurocentric critique of nationalism. It also deals critically with Tagore’s mysticism. https://journals.ulab.edu.bd/index.php/crossings/article/view/419 |
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