Mainstream
Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 52, New Delhi, December 12, 2020
Crises in the Congress Party and the Total Loss of the Self | Murzban Jal
Friday 11 December 2020
by Murzban Jal
As for the individual, everyone is a child of its time; so philosophy also is its time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as foolish to fancy that any philosophy can transcend its present world, as that an individual could leap out of his time or jump over Rhodes. If a theory transgresses its time, and builds up a world as it ought to be, it has an existence merely in the unstable element of opinion, which gives room to every wandering fancy.