t esphilosophyweather.es ei boueinaiasnoca erefrom colonialism But he was wrongly againstnationalism He extensively wrote about the ni e ofnationalism in japan he predicted that it wouldlead to a disaster at home abroad tenationalism as kind of madness hat alwaysve It d in wars The two world warare both filled by nationalism in a ringthat time it b also happened in Asia alsoFor tagore national States were formedas a war machine to expand than controltheir territories So e warned ag use thefascistic tendencies of nation States that theyonly care about fascist tendency which isthey only are about their own peopleNation state doesn't care about if people of the otherside of the border die in famine or starvation it onlycare about their own selfish motivestoday a good example it can be foodwaste in some country starvation war into othercountry tl we have our greatest slight whenIwetalize ourselves in others and this tiisI jiff.fii Ihe also believeso we material work is Ut wold 01 in universal humanismwas utter reroutes are limited and victoryin is on who havesuperior city in Us For him everyweapon Upton success in view 0 human civilizationprogress to one foul most often runs 2110 like fine Indiadel 1 0 21 Persia Greece EgypUS UK are morelike peaks thatattached the same hill humanity Tagore says libarated humansare those who thinks beyond their naiton l bodersFainan so closelyknit that whenone of the great risk to S 0444517 blowcomesbackin todays economicBeing selfish isgo.gov etworldBut once you go beyond greed you find happinessAccording to him we all are connected to humanity themeaning of life is to love everyone no matter what rationality Rationalityvsarfo tagore was somehow also criticof nationalism somehow similarto Dostoevsky in that modern nationalists distort as menas dehumanise people tagore thought modern man warlike crazy distorted giaffe whose head touched thecloud of illusion of power malarial success while theheart was stuck down below unhappy unfulfilledknowledge efficiency are like hotelsTagore says it's clean nice but the host is missingTo be spitually liberated education was rutial for himBut a rigid coercive education system could also breakperson's spirit He Argued that education shall be aProcess of self discovery that allows people to begreater than they are them salesTagore believe since intellect is thesame for all human S en ee as a product ofhuman intellect reduces everything to prototypesspecies numbers statistic the only way totruly understand other people as unique human beingwe have to turn to art stories why Becauseart stories turn all creatures into uniquecharacters each individual with unique emotionsit gives them humanity while science simplydepicts people as numbers statistics of citizenof a nationHe also pointed out your intelligencebelongs to others i e to provide food securityfor your family Boss friends governments Brilliantscientist like Einstein helped create the most powerful Bomb for United States government same asAlfred Nobel created dynamite o your intellectan also destroy the hole world so intelligencea science can be equally or more destructive thanhelpful therefore to truly understand others we'reto return to art storiesfastvs.ws western humanism originatedfrom a christian belief that alll believers were equalBut in 18th century the enlightment replacedd with human reasoning that all human beingas equal In fact western science relies ona single truth single theory single bestanswer to every problem To answer one problemProblematic One has to be better than otherstwo theory cant o exsist One has to bewrongTagore understood thissinglemindedness of western pilosophy But insteadinterested tagore was that westerners were seekingtruth outside while indians wereseeking insidetrough meditation He found a problem in Bothways of thinking He was critical of the westfor going too far explotig the world in theProcess distroying nature as well as eaturesHe one the other side alsocritical of Indians for being too inactive meditatinginside a temple west seeking one answer to everything the east is chasing answer inside each individualTagore believed the west could learn from the eastto be more self refective contemplative meditaAre while the east could learn from the westat active work creativity material enteavourytoo can give life a meaning In the 2nd halfof 20th century many western hippies found themselves in India for spiritual guidance Some likeSteve jobs use their Indian spiritual experienceto Become better capitalistso tagore wanted a dialoguebetween culture He cemented the west arroganceselfishness east's aloofness passivityHumanVSNatof tagore says every civilizationhas solved a greatproblemwestern civilization's challenges was to free us fromnature unite the whole wort he sayse West seems to take itimitating that it is subduing nature isWE Were living In a 170511A NOHOWeh Ve 0 INFESTEVERYTHING WE WantFiona Unwilling and aliena axemenÉjj.i.sij for us Indians however there is no need for an approachto control Nature But to be in harmony with naturewest approach to control nature stems from christian notion that we come from nature the gardenZeden into this ugly wild p ee Takedeanthso human don't belong here As a result natureis seen ugly dirty need a cleanupto give an example of thissaperation between the christians others the colonialenglish In India had the same feeling about theircolonies they were there to just extract wealthPrecious minorities like tea spices textile etthen go home as onions onions they didn't considerIndians as equal so didn't mingle with themSame In Africa America AustinEurope only settled in places where they outa andthe locals Also most settlers in AmanicaAustralia were the ones who were pushed out ofEurope for their religious beliefs.op ne nai convictionBut in India they never felt at home this unfortunately put man against nature one the onehand visions gainst non believers on theothers To the extent that it dehumanisedothers so that killing exploiting starving or ensetrythem was eons's erred totally fine by their ownChristian standards