Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Ahmad Ali Heydari ¹
• Mohammad Hassan Yaghoubian ²
• Ghasem Pourhassan ³

¹ Professor of Philosophy, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

² Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Philosophy, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

³ Associate Professor of Philosophy, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of this research is to study the nature of intercultural philosophy with a descriptive-analytical approach from the point of view of Ram Adhar Mall, who traveled to the West with an Indian background and founded the Association of Intercultural Philosophy in Germany. Using the relation between culture and philosophy, cultural other, overlaps, truth, pluralism, and tolerance, he has developed an intercultural philosophy with an Eastern reading, which, of course, comes from an Indian Dharma as a fact and different names; but he has transcended its spatiality and tried to critique European centralism and inverted Eastern ethnocentrism, speaking of a white philosophy that is inherently devoid of a particular color, language, and race, and has diverse roots in a number of different cultures. Four-dimensional hermeneutics is depicted between Europeans and non-Europeans. Thus, intercultural philosophy is an attitude or moral commitment and leads to a way of life. It also differentiates them based on the common and overlapping structures of cultures and moves towards a polyphonic discourse in the world without absolute self-concept and tries to re-read Indian philosophy in the world discourse. It also seeks an intercultural society and a world with unequal unity.

Keywords

• intercultural philosophy
• Ram Adhar Mall
• intercultural attitude