{"id":2334,"date":"2025-05-08T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2334"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:46:43","slug":"glossary-dialogical-or-imparative-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2334","title":{"rendered":"GLOSSARY &#8211; Dialogical or imparative philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2334\" class=\"elementor elementor-2334\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28100308 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"28100308\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f5b0233 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6f5b0233\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23e6ebe9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"23e6ebe9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a06378a elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a06378a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">DIALOGICAL OR IMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f1a0cc elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f1a0cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"justify\"><em><br \/>Dialogical<\/em>\u00a0or \u201c<em>imparative<\/em>\u201d philosophy attempts to be permanently open in its effort to constantly learn from others and from their different cultures, allowing one\u2019s views to be fertilized by the views and visions of others. It deals with a system of thinking disposed to learning from any philosophical corner of the world whatsoever.<\/p><p align=\"justify\">This\u00a0<em>imparative\u00a0<\/em>philosophy (from the Medieval Latin <em>imparare<\/em>: the attitude of learning, apprenticeship) is critical and conscious that \u201cwe cannot escape the fact of taking a position no matter from where we philosophize and that such a limitation makes our philosophizing relative to similar undertakings looked at from different angles; thus it is very conscious of its contingency: \u201cWe are not the only source of (self) understanding\u201d. It is constantly open to <em>dialogical dialogue<\/em>\u00a0with other philosophical visions, and not merely to dialectical confrontation and rational dialogue; it does not attempt to conquer nor even to convince, but rather to look for the truth from different positions in order to continue arriving at a mutual understanding (\u201cWhat is Comparative Philosophy Comparing?\u201d,\u00a0<em>Interpreting Across Boundaries, New Essays in Comparative Philosophy<\/em>, ed. G.J. Larson, Princeton University Press, 1988).<\/p><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=981\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&lt;&lt; back<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIALOGICAL OR IMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Dialogical\u00a0or \u201cimparative\u201d philosophy attempts to be permanently open in its effort to constantly learn from others and from their different cultures, allowing one\u2019s views to be fertilized by the views and visions of others. 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