Status of Women: Basaveswara gave to women, an equal status, in all walks of life.

Women is worshiped all over the world, but never given equality in the fields of
politics, religion and society. Holding woman on par with man in Anubhava-
mantap, he advocated her liberation.
Concept of Humanity
Basava was a Humanist; He advocated fraternity and communal harmony and tried
to establish a casteless and classless society:
“Does not crow on seeing a crumb
Call out to its flock?
Does not a hen, on finding a morsel
Call clacking to her brood”.
2. Gandhian Philosophy: Gandhian philosophy is based on the principle of welfare-
economy. He emphasizes equal pay for equal work and division. He pleads for rural
development and hates mechanization that leads us to leisure. He says, “The
civilization is cursed; the machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it
represents a great sin... I cannot recall a single good point in connection with
machinery”.
He hates the slavery to machinery. Man must rule the machines and not the
machines should rule him. His concept of “Do the truthful acts, follow non violence
and agitate exploitation with Satyagraha” is very conveniently adapted to the
present world as well. I stress Gandhi’s relevance, “His idea of rural economic
autonomy will turn the national economy into a Rama’s Kingdom or welfare state”.
Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore sang of humanity. His is a poem of man, and his work is a poem of
humanity. He has sympathy for the suffering and the downtrodden.
His humanism is part and parcel of his humanistic socialism. He is in favour
of a new-world order based on proper human values, social justice, mutual respect
and new social order. Through his literary works he strives for the renewal of
human personality and society.
Whose voice do I hear at the dawn
No fear, no fear, no fear
Those who sacrifices their lives selflessly
Will perish never, never, 0! Never.”
In Durbagh a Desh Tagore warns:
“Those whom you have deprived
Of their human rights
Those whom you made stand before you, yet accorded no seat yonder,
Will drag you down,
And will force you to stoop so low”.’
Through poems like Salvation, or Mukti he wanted to “lit millions of candles with
fire of love throughout the universal family of man”. He is not interested in heaven
or celestial deities. It is in this world that man’s progress towards perfection must
take place and therefore life in this world is the object of his preoccupation.
At this juncture, it would be absurd if we talk of philosophies in particular, because
philosophy is nothing but a search for truth and as such it can have no geographical
or national barriers. The emerging idea of globalization is no longer a threat to
philosophy, but it becomes a new light in the path of search for truth. As Gray says,
‘All paths of glory lead but grave” All the philosophies of world lead us to truth, the
attainment of peace of mind, the moksa or salvation.