As we are living today in an inter-dependent globalized world, which is a world created by us, we cannot aspire to build happy societies unless our political thinking and action are guided by values. The primary value in socio-political life is cooperation. It is integrally connected with freedom. Korab-Karpowicz proposes seven principles that characterize a happy society. It can lead us to the after post-modern, evolutionary world, a world in which we would become more conscious about our need to engage moral and intellectual evolution, that would eventually free us from violence and open new horizons for human development. For Korab-Karpowicz, if we are to overcome many maladies from which humanity at large has been suffering, it is necessary to promote philosophical thinking in the public domain. This paper is an attempt to critically discuss W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz’s work titled Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus with special attention the seven principles that characterize a happy society.
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Cooperation, Freedom, Compassion, Sustainable Development, Religious Pluralism, Post-modernism, Evolutionity
| [1] | W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus: New Directions for the Future Development of Humankind, New York: Routledge, 2017 (hence forth all references to the text of this book will contain only section numbers. |
| [2] | Ibid, p. ix. In the preface, Korab-Karpowicz says: “Like Wittgenstein, I use numbering to designate the issues discussed, and the sections numbered 7 to 7.54 are my responses to the propositions included in his sections 7 and 6.4 to 6.54.” |
| [3] | D. P. Simpson, Cassell’s Standard Latin Dictionary, fifth ed., New York: Macmillan, 1969, p. 609. |
| [4] | Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (English/German Edition), transl. C. K. Ogden. London: Kegan Paul, 1947, p. 7. |
| [5] | See, Korab-Karpowicz, Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus, p. 104. |
| [6] | Manu-saṁhitā, translated and enunciated (in Bengali) by Murari Mohan Senshastri, chapter on “Rājadharma”, Dipali Book House, Kolkata, 1994, pp. 243-289. |
| [7] | Korab-Karpowicz, here rightly says: “In today’s situation of large-scale manipulation and escalating conflict in the world, the peace that humanity desperately needs should begin as peace among religions” (7.632). |
| [8] | Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity, Atlantic Publishers, 1994, p. 266. |
| [9] | Swami Vivekananda, see, “Karma Yoga” in Complete Works, Volume 1, Kolkata: Advaita Ashram, 1992, p. 109. |
| [10] | Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, “Swaraj in Ideas,” a lecture delivered in October, 1931 under Sir Ashutosh Memorial Lecture Series organized by Charu Chandra Roy at Chander Nagar and published in Visva-Bharati Quarterly, 20 1954, pp. 103-114. |
| [11] | “Tāpācchedācca nikaṣāt suvarṇamiva paṇḍitaiþ/ parīkṣa madvaco grāhyaṁ Bhiksabe! Na tu gauravāt” –Śantideva’s Tattva-Saṁgraha, Verse No 3587. |
| [12] | Anguttara Nikāya, vol 1, London: Pali Text Society edition, 2012, pp. 188-193. |
| [13] | See, the text of “The Annual Rajendra Mathur Memorial Lecture” delivered by Amartya Sen and organized by the Editors Guild of India in New Delhi on Feb 16, 2016. |
| [14] | See, “Ā no bhadrāh kratavo yantu viśvatah” – Rigveda, 1.89.10. |
| [15] | Will Durant, The Pleasures of Philosophy, New York: Simon and Chuster, 1929, p. 208. |
| [16] | In a speech delivered on 18th November 1896, Swami Vivekananda said that religion is to be adjudged in the touchstone of logic and this would eliminate the superstitions connected with the religion. As early as it is done, it would appear better. “Sooner it is done, the better. If a religion is destroyed by such investigations, it was then all the time useless, unworthy superstition, and the sooner it goes the better,…All that dross will be taken off, no doubt, but the essential parts of religion will emerge triumphant out of this investigation.” – Reason and Religion, see Complete Works, volume 1, Advaita Ashram, 1992, p. 368. |
| [17] | The Bible: Mathew, 25/31-45. |
| [18] | Y. V. Satyanarayana, Marx and Gandhi, Visakhapatnam: Andhra University Press, 1988, pp 112-113. |
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