Friedrich Max Muller Max Muller,a great scholar in comparative philosophy,comparative religion,comparative mythology, philologist and orientalist,is now largely a forgotten name.once represented the intellectual life of nineteenth century and was a strong ,loud and sometimes lonely voice in many of the major intellectual and political debates of his time.His death in 1900 AD seems to have confined him to that era,unlike his contemporaries like Darwin,Spencer,Schopenhauer and Nietzsche,whose works have been revived or atleast revisited.even if Muller is read by anyone,it is generally in excerpted form or in very brief passages,which r often unrepresentative of Mullers original works.It is folly to judge the value of a persons lifes work,even the most idiosyncratic or arcane,without reading his original works.but his ambitious efforts to trace scientifically the development of human thoughts in terms of the artifacts of language,mythology and religion has been forgotten.He saidThe history of man begins not with flints,rock temples and pyramids,but with language.The second stage is that of myths as the first attempt to translate the phenomena of nature into thought.The third stage is that of religion or recognition of moral powers.The forth stage is philosophy,or a critique of the power of reason in their legitimate working on the data of experience.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:59:24 +0000
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