Anukul Chandra Mukherjee

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Anukul Chandra Mukerji
Born1888
India
Died2 May 1968
18 Tagore Town, Allahabad, UP, India
Occupation(s)Academic
Writer
Teacher
Philosopher
Known forPhilosophical writings
AwardsPadma Bhushan

Anukul Chandra Mukerji (1888–1968) was an Indian academic, thinker, writer and a professor of philosophy at

Allahabad University.[1] He was known for his studies on the philosophy of European thinkers such as Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, psychologists like William James, John B. Watson, and James Ward as well as the Advaita Vedanta of Adi Shankara. He was the author two notable books, Self, Thought, and Reality and The Nature of Self,[2][3] and several articles[4] and is known to have employed western methodology and language styles in his academic pursuit.[5] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1964, for his contributions to education and literature.[6]

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  6. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.