#HappyTeachersDay2020 Today is marked to coincide with the birth anniversary of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former Vice President and President of India, born in 1888. But besides these facts, many don& #39;t know of what his greatest contribution was.

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan was one of India& #39;s most distinguished scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, holding various eminent positions in the universities of Mysore, Calcutta, Chicago and Oxford (he was the first Indian to hold a professorial chair in the last).

His philosophical work was grounded in reinterpreting Advaita Vedanta for a contemporary understanding, resisting Western interpretations prevalent thus far, for which earned fame as a & #39;bridge-builder& #39; between East and West.

He countered the prevalent (esp. Western) idea that the Vedanta system had cast aside the question of ethics.

Eg. He said, "In morals, the individual is enjoined to cultivate a Spirit of Abheda, or non-difference" which "naturally leads to the ethics of love and brotherhood".

There& #39;s lots more, obviously. For a quick, but (relatively) concise overview of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan& #39;s contribution to philosophy, read this page on him and his work from the (peer reviewed) Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

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There is also reams of writing and great emphasis, in his work, on & #39;intuition& #39;: “The art of discovery is confused with the logic of proof and an artificial simplification of the deeper movements of thought results. We forget that we invent by intuition though we prove by logic.”