Divine Philosophical Literature: In Dialogue with Selected Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions

Abstract

This paper presents Divine Philosophical Literature as a contemporary literary-philosophical framework organised around seven interconnected principles: conscious awareness, moral responsibility, human dignity, spiritual inquiry, conscious love, transformative reflection, and human becoming. Through a comparative dialogue with selected Eastern and Western philosophical traditions—including Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Aristotle, Kant, existentialism, and feminist ethics of care—the paper examines how consciousness acquires ethical significance when recognition changes the conditions of later choice. It argues that literature can make philosophical questions experiential through narrative time, character, memory, conflict, silence, and consequence. The framework does not claim that consciousness, dignity, suffering, love, or transformation are historically new ideas. Its contribution lies in their particular configuration: linking awareness with responsibility, distinguishing suffering from transformation, understanding love through dignity and non-possession, maintaining metaphysical openness, and approaching human becoming as directional but unfinished.