Thursday, July 08, 2010

Giri’s exemplars are Kierkegaard, Sri Aurobindo, and Adam Smith

Capabilities, Power, and Institutions: Toward a More Critical ... - Page 82 Stephen Esquith, L., Stephen L. Esquith, Fred ... - 2010 - 206 pages
Giri’s exemplars are Kierkegaard, Aurobindo, and, interestingly, Adam Smith, rather than Foucault, for they provide a deeper ontology of the self and its potential. The premise of eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment thinking on civil ... 
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India - Page 133 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 296 pages
Minimally, one will need to include an element of love and a 'humility factor' for any ontological and theoretical ... Aurobindo, S, 1990, The Life Divine, Twin Lakes, Lotus Press. —,
30 May 1909, Aurobindo's Collected Works, Vol. ...
Humanitarian identity and the political sublime: intervention of a ... Ashmita Khasnabish - 2009 - 167 pages
In Humanitarian Identity and the Political Sublime, Ashmita Khasnabish unites Amartya Sen's concept of pluralistic identity with Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of the religion of human unity, where the European and Western philosophy of ...
Inter-religious communication: a Gandhian perspective Margaret Chatterjee - 2009 - 200 pages
Students of Religious Studies and all those concerned about the inter-communication of different religious communities in contemporary India will be challenged by this selection of Margaret Chatterjee's writings on central themes such as ...
Essays on Consciousness and Interpretation: Edited with an ... Mohanty, Tara Chatterjee - 2009 - 168 pages
J.N. Mohanty is one of the most distinguished philosophers
India has produced in recent years. Written mostly in the 21st century, this collection deals with the nature of consciousness and its interpretation.
The participatory turn: spirituality, mysticism, religious studies Jorge N. Ferrer, Jorge Noguera Ferrer, Jacob H ... - 2008 - 388 pages
The contributors to this volume argue that we can, and they offer a new way: the "participatory turn," which proposes that individuals and communities have an integral and irreducible role in bringing forth ontologically rich religious ...
Reading Hegel: The Introductions G. W. F. Hegel - 2008 - 272 pages
Bringing together for the first time all of G.W.F. Hegel's major Introductions in one place, this book ambitiously attempts to present readers with Hegel's systematic thought through his Introductions alone.
Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 23 Dr. phil. Michael Leicht - 2008 - 52 pages
Another example could be Descartes ontological proof of god (Höffe, 2001: 157). Since such an incomplete being, like man, ... And that is where I see clear limits of cognition. Iagree with Aurobindo as long as he speaks of the value of ...
Ontology of consciousness: percipient action Helmut Wautischer - 2008 - 638 pages
In Ontology of Consciousness, scholars from a range of disciplines—from neurophysiology to parapsychology, from mathematics to anthropology and indigenous non-Western modes of thought—go beyond these limits of current neuroscience ...
Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 81 Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - 164 pages
... and Sri Aurobindo do not accept the occurrence of the identical ontological scheme in each cycle. In Sri Aurobindo's analysis it is found that some individuals will revolt against the conventional system in individualistic age. ...
Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges Puruottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu, Renuka M ... - 2007 - 431 pages
This is the first such systematic study of the spectrum of moral reflections from India, engaging a critical cross-cultural perspective and attending to modern secular sensibilities.The volume explores the scope and limits of Indian ethical ...
Within the four seas--: introduction to comparative philosophy - Page 52 Ulrich Libbrecht - 2007 - 634 pages
When I discuss Christianity, I always start from Buddhism, which from an ontological viewpoint is for me the ... Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo and others. " This does not mean that it is the best religion from a social-existential viewpoint. ...
Indian Poetry in English: Pt. 1 - Page 87 Amar Nath Prasad - 2007 - 296 pages
For Aurobindo the key to liberation does no lie in revelation or asceticism as with traditional sub-continental ... For him, all ontological questions are but questions of harmony. It is within the mechanism of nature to achieve greater ...
Social memory and contemporaneity
Gulʹnara Abduvasitovna Bakieva, Maura Donohue - 2006 - 189 pages
That is why in Heidegger's philosophical ontology is an ontology of human existence. ... The classic work of the Indian teacher Sri Aurobindo, adventure of Consciousness, which became a classic in the West, can serve as an example. ...
Ethics in the Mahabharata: a philosophical inquiry for today
Sitansu S. Chakravarti - 2006 - 176 pages
Tagore approached spirituality from the phenomenological point of view, apart from the ontological, and interpreted the true spirit of Indian spirituality in existential terms. Significant work was done also by Sri Aurobindo bringing in ...
Philosophical Humanism and Contemporary India - Page 30 Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 2006 - 211 pages
Aurobindo was a prophet of political Vedantism, a supramental idealist and a Yogic mystic. The advance of modern Indian ... At the ontological level, it is the primordial immanent law controlling the universe and its phenomena. ...
Pushing Ultimates: Fundamentals of Authentic Self-Knowledge - Page 214 Lew Paz - 2006 - 397 pages
... and has little effect on a seeker's inner ontological magnetism resounding within his/her heart. ... Sri Aurobindo Ghose: The Dweller in the
Land of Silence: Truth is not a penetrating spear devised by some craftsman to kill quickly ...
Guru English: South Asian religion in a cosmopolitan language - Page 22 Srinivas Aravamudan - 2006 - 330 pages
... of deep ontological divisions between radical or discontinuous epistemes of historical temporality. ... and Sri Aurobindo are shown to contribute richly to this enterprise, one that participates in the Janus-faced project of ...
Mystical discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman: a transatlantic bridge - Page 14 D. J. Moores - 2006 - 248 pages
... it informs not only their ontology and epistemology but also their ideas on self, nature, language, poetics, ... citing the Indian mystic Aurobindo, that Wordsworth's 'mystical' experiences are incomplete, which is to say, ...
Religion, philosophy, and science: a sketch of a global view Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, Indian Institute ... - 2006 - 253 pages
These elements, theological in origin, had been extensively used in formulating the basic Vedic Ontology. ... Many subsequent writers like Sri Aurobindo read the Veda, including its theology and mythology, as veiled spiritual truths and ...
Hinduism, a Gandhian perspective Mangesh Venktesh Nadkarni - 2006 - 510 pages
... consciousness, word and referent, ontology, and so many other clearly philosophical issues (1998: 794). ... Vallabhacharya in the medieval phase, and by Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi and others in the modern phase. ...
Soziale Ungleichheit, Kulturelle Unterschiede Karl-Siegbert Rehberg - 2006 - 1399 pages
Civil society is not only an epistemic project, it is also an ontological project; in fact it is a project of ... Nanak, Mira Bai, Sri Aurobindo and Gandhi, we can realize that the significance of Indian modernities lies in bringing to ...
On the edge of the future: Esalen and the evolution of American ... - Page 117 Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck - 2005 - 323 pages
consistently and rigorously determined by a dialectical ontology that identifies Reality as bipolar and bisexual (or androgynous). Aurobindo invokes numerous binarisms to express this dialectical nature: the One and the Many, ...
Deep religious pluralism - Page 50 David Ray Griffin - 2005 - 272 pages
40 This pluralistic ontology allows us to understand the possibility that a wide variety of religious experiences could be authentic. ... As Cobb mentions here,Aurobindo reports having had all three types of experience. ...
A sociable God: toward a new understanding of religion - Page 53 Ken Wilber - 2005 - 172 pages
But it otherwise has all the problems associated with the metaphysical approach that Aurobindo still inhabits, including preexisting ontological structures, pregiven realities untouched by cultural intersubjectivity, realms inhabited by ...
Understanding philosophy, Eastern and Western perspectives: ... Manjulika Ghosh - 2005 - 428 pages
... so it is Atman that appears as the whole Universe.15 Thus while Sri Aurobindoconsiders both the Absolute and the Universe as true and real, according them an equal ontological status, Sri Sankara grants the Universe only an ...
Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ... Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - 171 pages
... or the acoustic root of a psychic condition, each a packet of a special vibration, each a creative ideation, and has an occult colour of its own, symbolic of a world ofontology, of a dimension of Reality. ...
The wrongs of the religious right: reflections on science, ... Meera Nanda - 2005 - 118 pages
From Dayanand Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo to the erudite S. Radhakrishnan, neo-Hindus have used the false cover of ... Moreover, the conflation between Vedic and scientific ontology and epistemology has served to deflect ...
Alternative Indias: writing, nation and communalism - Page 11 Peter Morey, Alex Tickell - 2005 - 238 pages
... the nineteenth century over the definition of 'India'.25 The idea of India being composed of 'communities' that had a prior ontological status reflects both a compromise and ... Aurobindo Ghosh, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Lajpat Rai and ...
Consciousness & healing: integral approaches to mind-body medicine Marilyn Schlitz, Tina Amorok, Marc S. Micozzi - 2004 - 585 pages
... the ontology and epistemology of physical science and, on the other hand, those of the spiritual traditions. ... integral perspective in medicine can be traced to the work of Indian mystic and political leader, Sri Aurobindo (1951). ...
Sleep as a state of consciousness in Advaita Vedānta - Page 136 Arvind Sharma - 2004 - 181 pages
Similarly, the ontological paradox that in deep sleep one is said to experience both the atman as well as its Ignorance could also ... to close this investigation with precisely such an example, drawn from the writings of Sri Aurobindo. ...
The inner journey home: soul's realization of the unity of reality A. H. Almaas - 2004 - 730 pages
But the animal is not the ontological ground of the soul, at any stage of its development. ... Furthermore, there is no indication that Aurobindo regarded these two souls as separate, apart and different, or as two stratified ...
Self and society: studies in the evolution of consciousness - Page 53 William Irwin Thompson - 2004 - 95 pages
... ontological modes at play and at large in the universe. For them, technology is like the Catholic Baltimore ... The mystics, starting with Teilhard de Chardin and SriAurobindo in the first half of the twentieth century, ...
The development of religion, the religion of development Ananta Kumar Giri, Anton van Harskamp, Oscar ... - 2004 - 196 pages
We know after all that religion often is a motivating source for many people involved in development practices.
Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to ... - Page 302 Olav Hammer - 2004 - 547 pages
... works include Joseph Campbell, Fritjof Capra and Sri Aurobindo as well as Bohr, Heisenberg and Einstein. ... from a new corporate structure to a transcendental idealist ontology to an anthropocentric picture of the universe. ...
The relevance of the wisdom traditions in contemporary society: ... - Page 122 Transnational Network for the Study of ... - 2004 - 261 pages
One such is Sri Aurobindo with his Integral Yoga. He was indeed a true “hybrid”, an Indian brought up in the
UK in the early 1900s ... They focus on the nature of reality, ontology, and how we acquire knowledge of reality, epistemology. ...
Rationality and tribal thought - Page 61 Sujata Miri - 2004 - 206 pages
... reflective transcendence but does not explore the pathways of ontologicaltranscendence that facilitates this.35 ... to go beyond "rationality" in our reconsiderations and to explore, realize and live by what Sri Aurobindo calls the ..
Human values in management Ananda Das Gupta - 2004 - 291 pages
As ethical issues continue to rise to the top of political, social and business agendas, the competitive market-economy model comes under renewed scrutiny for its potential to violate the fundamental values and integrity required to ...
Consciousness, Indian Psychology, and Yoga Kireet Joshi, Matthijs Cornelissen, Project of ... - 2004 - 495 pages
CHAPTER 2 Sri Aurobindo's Evolutionary Ontology of Consciousness Matthijs Cornelissen Abstract Sri Aurobindo sees evolution primarily as an ongoing evolution of consciousness. He holds that the human mind is much too imperfect a type of ...
The Religious ontology of Sri Aurobindo Andries Gustav Barnard - 2004 - 354 pages
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Ken Wilber: thought as passion - Page 281 Frank Visser - 2003 - 330 pages
... we see among other things that there is no ontological basis in the form of a corresponding plane of existence for the ... Like Aurobindo, Wilber uses the term involution to refer to the general movement from Spirit to matter; ...
The avatars of modernity: Vasco da Gama's discovery and Indian ... Heinz Werner Wessler, Lars Kjaerholm, Niels ... - 2003 - 295 pages
Taking inspiration from Sri Aurobindo, another seeker who has been a constant companion of Chittaranjan in his life's pilgrimage in the last ... more as he urges us to realize the ontological depth of moral and social commitments. ...
From Africa to Zen: an invitation to world philosophy Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen Marie Higgins - 2003 - 296 pages
... (Navya-Nyaya) Madhusudana Sarasvati (Advaita) Gadadhara (Navya-Nyaya) Vivekananda Gandhi Aurobindo fl. ... positions in epistemology, ontology, and philosophy of language. Though not a book for a beginner, any serious student of the ...
Jouissance as ānanda: Indian philosophy, feminist theory, and ... Ashmita Khasnabish - 2003 - 239 pages
... it might sound supernatural — but one must remember as well that Divakaruni uses the literary technique of magical realism to enhance her postcolonialontology. The spices always warned ...
Machine Consciousness - Page 188 Owen Holland - 2003 - 250 pages
... system of externalized metaphors that derive from pre-existing ontologicalmodes at play and at large in the universe. ... The mystics, starting with Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo in the first half of the twentieth century, ...
Knowledge, consciousness and religious conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 300 Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - 318 pages
The Christian understanding of creation as creation ex nihilo is quite different from that of Aurobindo. ... Oggi 11 (1998) 79-94 where it is maintained that Blondel was working toward a new way of maintaining the ontological link, ...
Indian critiques of Gandhi Harold G. Coward - 2003 - 287 pages
For fuller discussions of these levels in the context of Aurobindo's ontology as well as other aspects of Integral Yoga, see Stephen H. Phillips, Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1986); and Minor, Sri Aurobindo: The ...
A moral critique of development: in search of global responsibilities - Page 267 Philip Quarles van Ufford, Ananta Kumar Giri - 2003 - 309 pages
(Foucault 1984: 50) But Foucault's critical ontology and the 'experiments of going beyond' can be enriched by spiritual efforts and realisation as suggested by Sri Aurobindo and also hinted at by Foucault in his later works and writings ...
India's intellectual traditions: attempts at conceptual ... Daya Krishna, Indian Council of Philosophical ... - 2003 - 258 pages
In the course of their investigations they have dug deep into the ontological and epistemological problems even if they do ... In this country Sri Aurobindo is perhaps the only thinker who has endeavoured to work out philosophical views which support his social and political theories. The notion of 'Social Contract,' which stems from the debates initiated by ...

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