Akeel Bilgrami Quotes on Politics
Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian-American philosopher, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and one of the leading contemporary analytic philosophers of mind, language, and political philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Akeel Bilgrami on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Akeel Bilgrami:
“Secularism, properly understood, is a political ideal, not a metaphysical doctrine about the disenchantment of the world.”
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Attributed to Akeel Bilgrami:
“Gandhi's politics is unintelligible without his metaphysics, and his metaphysics is unintelligible without his politics.”
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Attributed to Akeel Bilgrami:
“The disenchantment of the world is reversible, and politics is the work of its reversal.”
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“As quoted in "'Politics is the Art of the Possible': Akeel Bilgrami on Secularism in India”
Nehru felt that secularism was never an exclusive concept to be discussed in India at all, because if secularism was a reparative notion towards a damage that had occurred in European society, he believed that damage to have never taken place in India in the first place.