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Author(s): F. O. Schrader
Review by: F. O. Schrader
Source: Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 61 (Jan., 1941), p. 98
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal Institute of Philosophy
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PHILOSOPHY
The PhilosophyofAdvaitawithspecial referenceto Bharatitirtha-Vidyaranya.
M.A., Ph.D. With a Foreword by Sir S.
By T. M. P. MAHADEVAN,
Radhakrishnan. (London: Luzac & Co. I938. Pp. xvi+284. Price
7s. 6d.)

This is a systematicaccount of the idealistic Vedanta as expounded in the

14thcenturyby Bharatitirthafromthe pointof view of the so-calledVivarana
school. The position,however,of this philosopherin the historyof Advaita
has been so elaboratelycircumscribed
thatthe generaltitle ofthebook appears
to be justified.The main sourcesused are Bharatitirtha'sscholarly Vivaranaand his popular Pancadasz. The English translationof
prameya-samgraha
the formerby Thibaut (in Indian Thought,vols. i-iii) and of the latter by
Venis (in the Pandit N.S., vols. v, vi, and viii), thoughapparentlynot used
by the author, might yet have been called attention to for the benefitof
the reader. The latter will be thankfulfor the glossary of Vedantic terms,
pp. 271-278. The book is characterizedby clearness of thoughtand fluency
of language and certainly deserves the praise bestowed on it by Sir S.
Radhakrishnan.
F. O. SCHRADER.
Two Bookes of Constancie,writtenin Latine by JUsTus LIPSIUS, Englished
by SIR JOHN STRADLING, Edited with an introduction by RUDOLF

KIRK, Notes by CLAYTONMORRIS HALL. (New Brunswick, N.J.:

Rutgers University Press. 1939. Pp. iX+223.

Price $4.50.)

The revival of letters in the sixteenth centuryincluded a considerable

attachmentto the moral Stoicismof Epictetus and Seneca. Among the more
celebratedexpressionsof this vogue was the De Constantiaof Lipsius which
was publishedin I584. It was translatedinto English by Sir JohnStradling
and exertedan influenceupon the prose style,as well as upon the sentiments,
of writersin the seventeenthcentury.Lipsius' purposein composingthe work
was to recommendto Christianreaders the Stoic conception of imperturbability in the face of public and private misfortunes. He was thus obliged
to repudiate the Stoic notions of Fate, natural cause, and determination.
Afterdiscussingtheseerrorshe discoursesat length,witha volume of classical
allusions,on the value of Stoic moralprecepts.He findsthe basis of Constancy
in Right Reason, distinguishesFalse Goods and False Evils, and argues
that calamitiesare beneficialor not so dismal as to bringdespairto a reasonable man. He writesunder the stressof the wars which were desolating his
native Netherlands.The argumenton occasion touches nobility,but Lipsius
he raises by referring
them to the secret
easily escapes fromthe difficulties
judgmentsof God. The book is valuable as a sourceof much of the Stoicism
of the period, and forthis reason is worthreprinting.
Two American scholars have produced an elaborate edition of Lipsius'
work in the translationby Stradling. The introductioncomprisesa life of
Lipsius, an analysis of the argumentof the book, and a useful historyof
the writingsby which Stoic ideas were introducedinto England.
M. H. CARRE.

Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages. By ETIENNE GILSON. (London:

C. Scribner's Sons, Ltd. 1939. Pp. 114. Price 6s.)

This book contains three lectures delivered in the United States and is
divided into chapters entitled "The Primacy of Faith," "The Primacy of
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