"What I most disliked about Harvard was that smug assumptions were too often treated as substitutes for evidence or logic. The idea seemed to be that if we bright and good fellows all believed something, it must be true."
https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1110587969897971712?s=19
This is a common mistake among all levels of intelligence. It only requires ego. “My logic is flawless, therefore I could not be wrong ie. fact. No need to bore my listener with useless detail about its origin, I’ll just start referring to it as written law for convenience sake.”
https://twitter.com/ttdawgtt/status/1110592773994897409?s=19
https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1110587969897971712?s=19
This is a common mistake among all levels of intelligence. It only requires ego. “My logic is flawless, therefore I could not be wrong ie. fact. No need to bore my listener with useless detail about its origin, I’ll just start referring to it as written law for convenience sake.”
https://twitter.com/ttdawgtt/status/1110592773994897409?s=19
A brief sketch of Rousseauism
It is the idealizing mix of nostalgia and primitivism that envisions life to have begun in some garden of Eden, an orchard of the Hesperides, a Golden Age, or a state of nature that was all peace and prosperity until some moral cataclysm hurled humankind into recorded history...
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains:” this is not a thesis which he strove to explain, argue, illustrate, and prove; it is a first principle—to mean, not what logically comes first, as in ancient or medieval philosophy, but what Rousseau intuitively believed to be the starting point of the matter, his heartfelt conviction, the idée fixe from which every fact follows and to which every conclusion returns. This emotional, intuitive apriorism bred fateful habits of the pen in Rousseau, who had no
equal in asserting truths for which his readers learned to expect no verification...
Rousseau is so confident in the world-making power of philosophizing that he avows it openly. It is, he says, “within the province of philosophy…to establish facts” and “these things [i.e., the origin of society, the felicity of savage man, the progress of inequality, etc.] can be deduced from the nature of man by the light of reason alone.”6 From Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics: JCLA Spring 2019 (42.1)
The Mother came to #Puducherry to meet Sri Aurobindo on March 29, 1914. This single event is the only tangible reason to believe that there is some meaning in our existence and what all the philosophies and religions have been searching for will certainly be found out. Gratitude.
(From a meditation written on the day after the Mother first saw Sri Aurobindo). 30 Mar 1914. It matters little that there are thousands of beings plunged in the densest ignorance, He whom we saw yesterday is on earth ...
Most of the junk philosophy in AI is just an extension of Christian theology. https://t.co/u9xxhex5Dg
Great evening @howtoacademy last night @emmanuelcentre talking AI and creativity but the funniest thing was noticing what was written above the banner advertising the event. #TheCreativityCode @4thEstateBooks https://t.co/YHKB13LvWC
Once again @pbmehta has written an entire article - this time on cash transfers - without a single number (except the 20 percent of families that will be ostensibly targeted). He has done a lot of analysis about “a marginal infusion of cash in the hands of the poor” w/ no numbers ... Harsh Gupta
This guy is supposed to be India’s top public intellectual as per some. Not his fault that some call him that, definitely the fault of those who do so. I really wonder about their analytical and critical thinking skills. And if they do have them, then about their true intentions.
Despite being the subject of considerable scholarship, Aurobindo has generally been presented as a disjointed figure, fragmented and constrained by disciplinary boundaries. Ongoing disputes within the wider Aurobindo community regarding his contested legacy have drawn attention to his (mis)appropriation by a resurgent Hindutva ethno-nationalism. Against the attempts by some to monumentalize Aurobindo as an infallible Avatar, this interdisciplinary review of the field of Aurobindo studies seeks to bring together a wide range of scholarly perspectives ... Alex Wolfers
Sri Aurobindo is the most overlooked and underestimated sage/ yogi/ philosopher of the modern era. He was so revolutionary that even his own disciples and followers have failed to fully comprehend the most radical aspects of the message of Savitri, ...
I must acknowledge that there is a strange inconsistency in Aurobindo’s writings, which may help to explain why Aurobindonians are so discomforted by the ideal of romantic love as a redemptive force—and why some Aurobindonians deny the manifest sense of Savitri, and why none of the commentaries on Savitri point out the obvious: that romantic love is “the star” of the poem. Seth Farber, PhD
Hegel helped Emerson understand that the process of evolution is itself a manifestation of Spirit. While Aurobindo shares with Emerson a theory of transmigratory evolution, his path to this common resolution was the easier one ...
The interesting fact to note here is that although Emerson and Aurobindo were rejecting very different traditions, they both came to the same conclusion: the world is the very real manifestation of Spirit whose basic nature is ananda. by Robert C. Gordon, PhD
The second type would bring in some comparative elements quite tentatively and with great care for fear of crushing the master’s words (quite unwarranted, no doubt!) and make sure that Sri Aurobindo’s position is uniquely preserved even in the course of the textual arguments. These selfstyled scholars then parade as arch Aurobindonians never ever casting a single glance at either Sri Aurobindo’s works or their own (mis)readings ever afterwards. Sri Aurobindo might be his own interpreter or rather his works could stand testimony to their own insights — but scholarship is indeed something more demanding than submissive commentaries, surreptitious asides, or supportive descriptions. Murali Sivaramkrishnan
S´raddha - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Aug 15, 2013
Sri Aurobindo's theo-political reconfiguration of Hinduism - The Making of an Avatar: Reading Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950) | Wolfers | Religions of South Asia - Equinox eBooks Publishing - Equinox Publishing https...
Impossible to overestimate the importance of Sri Aurobindo - Tusar Nath MohapatraJanuary 18, 2017 8:13 PM [emotions are directly tied to our actions... Emotions, then, are creative.] https://qz.com/887524/forget-sto...
My original contributions to understanding Sri Aurobindo - My original contributions to understanding or interpreting Sri Aurobindo can be summarised under a number of heads: 1) Against Hindutva, Mythology, & Astro...
Physics is the key for prosperity - As India enters elite space league with 'Mission Shakti' A-SAT the, here's why it's is a gamechanger for the nation #IndiaSpaceSuperPower https://t.co/MBeNS...
Believe in the Vedic Evolutionary ontology of Sri Aurobindo - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar While it's understandable that electoral politics and its compulsions will dominate the national sce...
Offering a corrective to parochial philosophy - Greek gods were assholes, which might explain the rise of rationality and the birth of Western philosophy there. And also Plato. Do listen to episode 109 o...
Plasim Radar
The Dance of Shiva: A Reinterpretation - Reflecting further on this notion of the “four cities” introduced in the previous post, I was led back to a reconsideration of the Dance of Shiva, the repr...
Spirituality Provides Freedom Even to Deny God on the Path to Realisation - A mistake religions or philosophies tend to make is that they try in many, or even most, cases, to deny freedom of thought and experimentation on the part ...
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! - Don’t you love the word “debunk”? Its cheerfully aggressive sound is inseparable from its sense. The second syllable, bunk!, seems to leap down from the La...
Ecotheological Pathways (Inner Animalities Book Event) - This response is from Elizabeth Pyne, who is currently an instructor at Fordham University’s London Centre. Her research engages various intersections betw...
6.3 The Delight of Being - *How can one “learn of pure delight”?* First of all, to begin with, one must through an attentive observation grow aware that desires and the satisfactio...
Why NYAY will be pared down and Zombified - Rahul Gandhi's NYAY scheme- which would give about 90 dollars per month (which in purchasing power would be equivalent to perhaps 500 dollars) to the poore...
