Science And The Conquest Of Hunger

by M.S. Swaminathan

Overview

India is the home of religion, philosophy and spirituality. Every age, she provides the world with armies of spiritual masters. The beauty of the Indian philosophy is the grand unification of a Metaphysical God who is the Absolute Reality and the substratum of all existence, and a Personal God who is the basis of all morality, ethics and the inspiration to lead a meaningful life. Amongst those Indian philosophers who accepted the separation of mind and body and argued for the existence of the soul, there was considerable dedication to the scientific method and to developing the principles of deductive and inductive logic. As keen observers of nature and the human body, India's early scientist/philosophers studied human sensory organs, analysed dreams, memory and consciousness. The best of them understood dialectics in nature-they understood change, both in quantitative and qualitative terms-they even posited a prototype of the modern atomic theory. The novelty of this book consists of the fact that it introduces the reader to the basic of Indian philosophers and their contribution in Indian philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354392269
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

MONKOMBU SAMBASIVAN SWAMINATHAN (b. 1925) is a distinguished scientist of international Repute whose work in the field of basic and jplant genetics over a period of 30 years has justly earned him numerous national and international awards and honours. A Fellow of the National Science Academy and of the Royal Society of London, he has also been a recipient of the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards from the President of India. In 1977 he was elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. and in 1978 h^ became a Foreign Member of the All Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences-of the U.S.S.R. He received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1971. More recently, he was elected Independent Chairman of the FAO Council. In the course of a varied and distinguished career he has been Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture. In April 1980 he became Member, Planning Commission of India, a position he occupied until April 1982 when he was appointed Director General of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. An earlier volume containing his lectures entitled Science and Integrated Rural Development was published by Concept in 1982.