NUTSHELL SURVEY OF PHILOSOPHICAL STREAMS
Dr.Abdul Lathief:-PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS
(Mulberry Publications,Kozhikode)Pp.165.Rs.75/-
Book Review by P.Raja
lt was Francis Bacon who remarked.
"Some books are to be tasted ; others swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested."Dr.Abdul Lathief's
Philosophical Reflections belongs to the third category.Yet,it cannot be read in a single sitting for the
heaviness of the material provided therein demands a serious study and it is
not everyman's cup of tea.
Dr. Abdul Lathief
,it goes without saying,should have buried
himself among books of Philosophy for
hours together for years and the scholarship he had thus gained should have
gone into the making of this book.
In the first part of his book,Dr.Abdul Lathief
talks about the different ways of existence,and the
planes of manifestations.Along with the discussion of
creative evolution and dissolution,one finds the path
of the seeker and also Wisdom,Love and Power.In his attempt to present his own views on the
philosophy of existence,he has taken trip round the
world of philosophers.
The rest of the book is an analysis
of Western and Eastern Philosophies,mystical and
religious system and major psychological systems.The
second part starts with the pre-Socretic philosophers
to Neo -realistic philosophers.It is also a nutshell
history of Western philosophy.Human psychology,part III of the book ,discusses in detail the
thoughts of Freud,Jung,Adler and Berne.
The fourth part deals with
religious and mystical philosophy and all the philosophies embedded in world's
religions find their place here.The final chapter
deals with mysticism,metaphysics
and ethics.
In his analysis of theroies and philosophies,Dr.Abdul
Lathief must had made the best use of the sources
which he has conveniently forgotten to
mention; a list of books at the end would have made the work more scholarly.Yet
the book is a work of ready reference to scholars,teachers
and interested students who have a taste for philosophy.
Dr. P.
Raja.24 Poincare Street.Olandai-Keera
Palayam,Pondicerry-605004-India.
This
Book -Review is from
"Indian Book Chronicle-Vol-27-No -9-September 2002.