商品簡介
While the West largely paid attention to its own experiences in humanism, India and other parts of the world were also producing humanist scholars and philosophers. Roy, who considered humanism to be scientific, integral to other disciplines, and inclusive to all cultures, was a writer and activist during the British rule of India. His efforts in politics, in which he advocated radical democracy, led to six years of incarceration. In an article, several manifestos, and his most famous work "Principles of Radical Democracy: 22 Theses," Roy explains why average people should receive sufficient education to become independent and critical thinkers, quite apart from dependence on secular authority and the supernatural. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Innaiah Narisetti, Ph.D. (Hyderabad, India), is the chairman of the Center for Inquiry, India, the former general secretary of the Indian Radical Humanist Association, and the author of Let Sanity Prevail, M. N. Roy: Radical Humanist, and four other books.
