Truth between Objectivity and Humanism: An Interdisciplinary Study of Einstein and Tagore

Abstract

In the intellectual history of the twentieth century, the relationship between wisdom and literature has surfaced as a significant field of interdisciplinary conversation. This paper focuses on the major dialogue between Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore, assaying questions of verity, mortal knowledge, and epistemology in the environment of their exchange. Their discussion, held in Berlin in 1930, was not simply an exchange of ideas between two great minds, but a profound philosophical debate on fustiness, humanism, and the nature of knowledge and the Relation among Tagore, Einstein and France. This paper critical lyre-reads that dialogue; particularly in terms of relative verity versus humanistic verity, scientific reality versus aesthetic perception, and the conflict and conflation between Eastern and Western traditions of knowledge.