:Pakistani philosophy
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Pakistani philosophy is the philosophical activity or the philosophical academic output both within Pakistan and abroad.{{cite web|last=Kazmi|first=A. Akhtar|title=Quantification and Opicity|url=http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-3/chapter_xii.htm|publisher=CVRP|access-date=25 November 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509092943/http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-3/chapter_xii.htm|archive-date=9 May 2013}} It encompasses the history of philosophy in the state of Pakistan, and its relations with nature, science, logic, culture, religion, and politics since its establishment in August 1947.{{cite book|editor-last=Ahmad|editor-first=Naeem|title=Philosophy in Pakistan|year=1998|publisher=Council for Research in Values and Philosophy|location=Washington, DC|isbn=1-56518-108-5|url=http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-3/contents.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211347/http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-3/contents.htm|archive-date=2015-09-23}}
In an editorial written by critic Bina Shah in Express Tribune in 2012, "the philosophical activities in Pakistan can nevertheless both reflects and shapes the collected Pakistani identity over the history of the nation."{{cite news|last=Shah|first=Bina|title=Philosophy of Pakistan|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/469256/the-philosophy-of-pakistan/|access-date=25 November 2013|newspaper=Express Tribune, 2012|date=November 21, 2012}}
History
When Pakistan gained independence there was only one philosophy department in the country, at Government College Lahore.{{cn|date=July 2024}} Academically, philosophical activities began in the universities, and with the thought organization founded by philosopher M.M. Sharif, a pupil of G. E. Moore, in 1954.{{cite web |display-authors=etal |author=Richard V. DeSemet |title=Philosophical Activities in Pakistan:1947-1961|url=http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-3/appendix.htm|work=Work published by Pakistan Philosophical Congress|access-date=25 November 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509105450/http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-3/appendix.htm|archive-date=9 May 2013}}
Notable figures
Notable Pakistani philosophers include:
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book
| last =DeSemet
| first =Richard
| author-link =Richard De Smet
| title =Philosophical activity in Pakistan
| publisher =Pakistan Philosophical Congress
| pages =132
| id =LloZAAAAMAAJ
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- {{cite book
| last =Javed
| first =Kazi
| title =Philosophical Domain of Pakistan (Pakistan Main Phalsapiana Rojhanat)
| publisher =Karachi University Press
| location =Karachi
| language =ur
}}
- {{cite book| last=Nasr |first=ed. by Seyyed Hossein Nasr| author-link =Seyyed Hossein Nasr|title=History of Islamic philosophy|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|location=London [u.a.]|isbn=0415131596|edition=Repr.}}
- {{cite book|editor-last=Ahmad|editor-first=Naeem|title=Philosophy in Pakistan|year=1998|publisher=Council for Research in Values and Philosophy|location=Washington, DC|isbn=1-56518-108-5|url=http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-3/contents.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211347/http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-3/contents.htm|archive-date=2015-09-23}}
- {{cite book
| last = Stepaniants
| first =Mariėtta Tigranovna
| title =Pakistan: Philosophy and Sociology
| publisher =People's Publishing House
| location =Karachi, Sindh
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=XfUSAAAAMAAJ&q=pakistani+philosophy
| id =XfUSAAAAMAAJ
| year =1972
}}
- {{cite book|last=Ishrat|first=Waheed|title=Understanding Iqbal's philosophy|year=2007|publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications|location=Lahore|isbn=978-9693520736}}
External links
- [http://pu.edu.pk/home/department/13 Punjab University Department of Philosophy]
- [http://www.gcu.edu.pk/phil.htm GCU Department of Philosophy]
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