Changing Patterns of Thought Philosophy as Interpersonal Communication

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Chapter 1 DIALOGICALPHILOSOPHY OF PLATO 1.2. Philosophy on Colloquial Style in the Dialogues of Plato 1.3. Brahmodya in Indian Thought 1.4. Criticism of Artists in Ion and the Republic 1.5. Discussion on Virtue in Meno 1.6. What Love Is All about (the Symposium) 1.7. Dialogues in the Republic 1.8. Fine Arts Only for Adults 1.9. Dialogue: A Way of Life of Philosophy Chapter 2 PHILOSOPHY IN PROCESS TRACK 2.2. The Supreme Good in Plato 2.3. Periphery to the Centre 2.4. Starting from Grass-Root Level 2.5. Pure Reason vs. Engaged Reason 2.6. Other Forms of Engaged Reason 2.7. Climbing Down from the Absolute to the Process 2.8. Flux as Starting Point 2.9. Human Subject in Its Worldly Conditions as Starting Point Chapter 3CONSTRUCTIVE VERSUS DESTRUCTIVE POSTMODERNISM 3.2. Characteristic Features of Modernity 3.3. Postmodernity Emerging 3.4. Postmodernism: A New Form of Social Existence 3.5. Origin of the Movement of Postmodernity 3.6. Role of Nietzsche and Heidegger 3.7. Postmodern Architecture 3.8. Deconstruction of Derrida 3.9. Frankfurt School of Marxism 3.10. Progress or Decadence 3.11. Postmodernism and Pentecostal Congregations 3.12. Society and History 3.13. Changes in Social and Cultural Life J.14. The Collapse of the Premodern J.15. Postscript Chapter 4 INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS SCRIPTURES FROM ASIAN CONTEXT 4.1. Introduction: The Postmodern Scene 4.2. Postcolonial Discourse 4.3. The Contemporary Concerns 4.4. Reflection on Subaltern 4.5. Nation-State Ideal 4.6. The Caste Structure of Indian Society 4.7. The Challenge from Postmodernism 4.8. Globalization a By-Product 4.9. Homogenization of Cultures 4.10. Importance of the Little Traditions 4.11. The Middle Way for a Better Social Reordering 4.12. New Areas of the Post-Colonial Discourse Chapter 5 FELLOWSHIP IN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 5.1. Introduction: Hermeneutics and World Religions 5.2. Perspectives on Hermeneutics Chapter.6 Homogenization of cultures and little traditions Chapter.7 Dialogue or conquest versus cultures and religions