Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism

Krishna Mani Pathak (PhD, Heidelberg) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hindu College, University of Delhi, India. He has worked as lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany and as Visiting Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius. He is an active member of the American Philosophical Association and is currently serving as member of its Committee for International Cooperation for a three years term. He is also on the editorial board of the Acorn Journal, USA. He is a founding life member of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Society (LWPS) of India. His publications cover a range of topics from theoretical to comparative philosophy to applied philosophy. His recent publications have appeared in the series of Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Springer’s Schopenhauer on Self, World and Morality, Sage Open, Journal of Human Values, Tulsi Prajñā, Asia Journal of Global Studies, International Journal of Applied Ethics and WCP proceedings. He has also been external assessor for grant applications of SSHRC, Canada and article editor for Sage Publications

What is Philosophical Quietism (Wittgensteinian and otherwise)?.- Silence as a Therapeutic Device: A Case for Śūnyavāda as Philosophical Quietism.- Rationalistic Value Realism as a Religion without God: An Option for Metaethical Quietism.- Does the Ineffability of Brahman lead to Quietism? Śaṅkara on the Indispensability of  Language.- Sañjaya’s ajñanavāda and Mahāvīra’s anekāntavāda: From Agnosticism to Pluralism.- Agnosticism, Atheism and Naturalism’s  Imaginaire: A Defense of God and Religion.- Mystical Theistic Ineffability and Agnosticism.- An Agnostic Deconstruction of Mysticism and the Philosophical Value of its Truth Claims.- Plotinus and Godlike Virtues.- Connection between Faith and Reason in Religious Mysticism.- Mysticism of Experience, Faith in Communication: Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.- Encoded Language as Mystical Revelation Among the Bāuls of West Bengal.- The Cosmic World, the MysticalMind and the Vedic Concept of Origination.