"Top Five" Philosophy Works

Tue Nov 23 05:57:43 UTC 1999

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 02:13:56 -0600, Burt Thorp wrote:

>  Radhakrishnan was a good writer, but I never could tell what advances he
> made on traditional Vedanta.

If you glance at what Paul Hacker has had to say about
Radhakrishnan (see a few articles in his _Kleine Schriften_), you'll
see that in popular imagination R. is severely overrated. He was more
a politician than a philosopher.

RZ