Shishir Kumar Maitra was a well-known academic philosopher. In the year 1887, this great personality was born in a Brahmin family. His father was in teaching profession and used to teach in Ravenshaw College and Presidency College. As he was free from all sorts of prejudices and orthodoxy, Shishir Kumar got a free and healthy atmosphere that made him liberal in his views.
When he was in college, he had a great admiration for the German philosopher, Hegel. Shishir Kumar Maitra used to give priority on reasonable thinking. However Henri Bergson's philosophy deeply moved him and he spent a lot of time in studying that philosophy.
He was associated with the Banaras Hindu University where he was the Head of the Philosophy Department and Dean of the Arts Faculty. It is seen that his writing is the perfect fusion of western and eastern philosophy.
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Many of his writings were based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo. Not only in India but outside India also he had popularized the
principle teachings of Sri Aurobindo. In the year 1958, he wrote an essay named “"Sri Aurobindo and Spengler”. This piece of writing
mainly deals with the comparison between the pluralistic and integral philosophy of History.
Another philosopher Nikolai Hartmann also influenced his literary works. Shishir Kumar Maitra wrote many articles and books. Some of them are:
- The Neo-Romantic Movement in Contemporary Philosophy
- Sri Aurobindo and the Message of the Buddha
- Philosophy and life
- Self-effort of grace
- The Spirit of Indian Philosophy
- Sri Auroboindo and the New World
- The spiritual life and its realization
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