Ram Adhar Mall

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Ram Adhar Mall (* 1937 in India ) is a German-Indian philosopher .

Life

Youth and education

He studied philosophy , psychology , Sanskrit , English language and literature as well as economics at the universities of Kolkata , Göttingen and Cologne . He received his BA in 1958 and MA in 1958 from the University of Calcutta . After four months of language studies at a Goethe Institute in Germany, he studied philosophy, psychology, English and Indology at the Universities of Göttingen and Cologne. Mall received his doctorate in Cologne in 1963 on the subject of Hume's image of man . At the invitation of Ludwig Landgrebe , he returned to Cologne from India in 1967, where he conducted research on phenomenology and empiricism at the Husserl Archive. In 1981 he completed his habilitation at the University of Trier on the subject of the operative concept of spirit. Locke, Berkeley, Hume . From 1977 to 1989 he taught philosophy at the University of Trier. From 1989 to 1998 Mall taught philosophy and religious studies at the universities of Wuppertal, Bremen and Heidelberg and from 1998 to 2005 at the LMU Munich. Since 2005 he has taught at the FSU Jena. In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Communication at the University of Hildesheim. Mall has been Senior Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Jena since 2016. Ram Mall lives in Bonn-Bad Godesberg.

Teaching

In India, he received a lectureship in philosophy at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, where he taught philosophy from 1964 to 1967. From 1989 to 1990 he taught at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . From 1990 to 1991 he taught philosophy at the University of Heidelberg . From 1991 he taught philosophy at the University of Bremen . Since 1998 he has been teaching philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the summer semester of 1999 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna .

Non-university activities

Since 1991 he has been the founding president of the international society for intercultural philosophy (GIP) . He is co-editor of the series: Studies on Intercultural Philosophy. Rodopi Verlag, Amsterdam. He is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of the series: Philosophy and the Global Context. New York / Oxford.

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His research is fundamentally based on the intercultural philosophical conviction that the one philosophia perennis is nobody's possession alone. Although it requires orthodox philosophical conventions / traditions, it does not go completely into any of these traditions. It is therefore “orthodontically placeless”. It is the same with religio perennis. With this in mind, he is currently dealing with various topics in philosophy such as B. with epistemology, logic, ethics / morals, aesthetics, human rights from an intercultural perspective. Philosophy qua philosophy is actually anchored anthropologically. And this makes it clear that there is an overlap among people's scientific activities, despite the cultural peculiarities. In the area of ​​communication, whether purely theoretical or practical, his research intention is based on the conviction that communication has priority over consensus, even if the regulatory idea of ​​consensus is fully justified. The primacy of communication enables us to take the dissent seriously and not just treat it reductively. Such a view of the problem creates a willingness to compromise, which in turn enables communication. It is a matter of renouncing the claim to absoluteness, because the absoluteness of truth (if it should exist) must not be confused with the absoluteness of the human claim to it.

Publications

Some of his important publications in the field of empiricism and phenomenology are:

  • Hume's Concept of Man. An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology. Allied Publishers, Bombay et al. 1967.
  • Experience and Reason. The Phenomenology of Husserl in its Relation to Hume's Philosophy. Nijhoff, The Hague 1973, ISBN 90-247-1494-X .
  • Naturalism and Criticism. Nijhoff, The Hague 1975, ISBN 90-247-1739-6 .
  • The operational concept of mind. Locke, Berkeley, Hume. Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1984, ISBN 3-495-47562-1 (also: Trier, University, habilitation paper, 1981).

In the field of comparative and intercultural philosophy, some of his publications are:

  • Study of Indian Philosophy and Sociology. On comparative philosophy and sociology (= monographs on philosophical research. Vol. 120). Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1974, ISBN 3-445-01141-9 .
  • with Heinz Hülsmann: The three birthplaces of philosophy. China, India, Europe. Bouvier, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-416-02195-9 .
  • Philosophy in comparison of cultures. Intercultural philosophy - a new orientation. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-12684-X .
  • Intercultural Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham et al. 2000, ISBN 0-8476-9278-7 .
  • with Hamid Reza Yousefi : Basic Positions in Intercultural Philosophy (= IKB Volume 1). Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 978-3-88309-160-0 .
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy read interculturally (= IKB Volume 12). Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 978-3-88309-184-6 .
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics read interculturally (= IKB Volume 19). Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 978-3-88309-180-8 .
  • Mahatma Gandhi read interculturally (= IKB Volume 27). Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 978-3-88309-162-4 .
  • Nagarjuna's philosophy read interculturally (= IKB Volume 57). Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 978-3-88309-228-7 .
  • Indian philosophy. From the path of thought to the path of life. An intercultural perspective (= worlds of philosophy. Vol. 4). Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-495-48368-8 .

In the area of ​​the philosophy of religion and comparative religious studies , the following should be mentioned:

  • Indian creation myths. An introduction. Bouvier, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-416-01701-3 .
  • The challenge. Essays on Mahatma Gandhi. (= Current non-fiction book. 01). Ed. Collage, Hildesheim 1989, ISBN 3-924479-25-9 .
  • Buddhism. Postmodern religion? (= Current non-fiction book. 03). Ed. Collage, Hildesheim 1990, ISBN 3-924479-30-5 .
  • Hinduism. Its position in the diversity of religions. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-89678-057-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mall, Ram Adhar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH India