The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are outstanding figures of the modern world

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages

According to Sri Aurobindo, "the dialectical intellect is to be used only so far as it helps to clarify our arrangement and justify our ... As Bradley remarks, "standing contradictions appear where the subject is narrowed artificially, ...

Philosophical Humanism and Contemporary India - Page 29   Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 2006 - 211 pages

FH Bradley, Appearance and Reality, pp. 388-38n : "Religion appears to have two roots, fear and admiration or approval. ... Sri Aurobindo, The Isha Upanishad, p. 54, regards as "vulgar" the idea of a Personal God as a magnified ...

Philosophical papers of professor J.N. Chubb, J. N. Chubb, Harsiddh Maganlal Joshi, Indian ... - 2006 - 650 pages

as unconditional error and finds itself in agreement with the wise saying of FH Bradley, 'Error is truth, it is partial truth and error only because left partial and incomplete.' Sri Aurobindo, the Master of Integral Yoga and Truth, ...

Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 178, Basant Kumar Lal - 2005 - 346 pages

We can also include the metaphysical theories of Bradley or even of Spinoza as falling under this group, because according to them also the Super-cosmic Absolute or the substance is the only reality. Sri Aurobindo criticises this theory ...

Studies in the Metaphysics of Bradley - Page 190, Sushil Kumar Saxena - 2004 - 280 pages

But, from the viewpoint of Bradley its chief limitation is its bias that whatever claims to be real or true must be ... Again, we have it on the authority of Sri Aurobindo that 'states of consciousness there are in which Death is only ...

A study of comparative metaphysics: F.H. Bradley and Sri Aurobindo, H. M. (Harsiddh Maganlal) Joshi - 2004 - 338 pages

Francis Herbert Bradley, 1846-1924, English philosopher and Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian philosopher and nationalist.

Indian literary criticism in English: critics, texts, issues, P. K. Rajan - 2004 - 363 pages
For comparison between Aurobindo's conception of the Absolute and that of Hegel, or of FH Bradley see Steve Odin's essay "Sri Aurobindo and Hegel on the involution-evolution of Absolute Spirit," Philosophy East and West 31.2(1981): ...

The integral advaitism of Sri Aurobindo - Page 224, Rāma Shankar Miśra - 1998 - 437 pages

(iii) Sri Aurobindo's and Bradley's View of the Absolute Compared The Absolute, according to Bradley, ... As Bradley observes, "The Absolute, we may say in general has no assets beyond appearances; and again with appearances alone to ..

Journal of Dharma Dharmaram College. Centre for the Study of ... – 1998

the vicinity of the Eternal One: Parmenides and Sankara, Spinoza and Hegel,Aurobindo and Bradley, seem to be instances of flights of fancy that ended in denying the rights of the many in favour of their respective ideas of the One. ...

Yoga, mathematics, and computer sciences: in change confronting ..., Anil Kumar Sarkar - 1997 - 232 pages

Here Whitehead assumes a relational element, differing from Bradley.21 So Whitehead has a reflective mind which transcends ... Aurobindo and Whitehead, that both were referring to a prospective insightful many-dimensional possibilities, .

Social Change And Social Control - Page 282, Rajendra Kumar Sharma - 1997 - 328 pages

Separating the latter from true religion, Sri Aurobindo has christened it religionism.... FH Bradley and JS Pringle Pattison have also assented to an intimate relation between morality and religion. FH Bradley writes, "It is a moral ...

East-West evaluation of Man, Vedre Narayan Karan Reddy - 1996 - 390 pages

Spinoza, Bradley, Bergson and Sankara. Intuition is inarticulate unbroken reality in Sri Aurobindo while it is an inward experience of the spirit in Radhakrishnan, a self-evident truth and an immediate awareness. ...

Śrī Aurobindo and Vedic interpretations, Kala Acharya, Shubhada A. Joshi, K. J. Somaiya ... - 1996 - 121 pages

with his Sadhana in solitude till he breathed his last on 5th December, 1950. Aurobindo was influenced by Platinus, Bradley and Bergson in his philosophical outlook, nevertheless he deeply studied Rgveda and Upanisads as well as all ...

Hinduism: Analytical Study - Page 127, Amulya Mohapatra, Bijaya Mohapatra - 1993 - 427 pages

Sri Aurobindo Under the influence of his Western training and especially of such philosophers as Platinus, Bradley and Bergson, Sri Aurobindo attempted a re-interpretation of Hinduism which he expounded in his main work. Life Divine. ...

The Upaniṣads, a socio-religious appraisal, Jose Thachil - 1993 - 204 pages

Sri Aurobindo puts it beautifully: The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in the ... and the society vis-a-vis the formulations of the western political thinkers like Plato, Hegel, Bradley, ...

Evil and the retributive hypothesis, G. C. Nayak - 1993 - 204 pages

The book devotes itself mainly to critical examination of a system of belief, viz., the theistic belief.

India's True Voice - Page 232, Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - 320 pages

This, it is to be recalled, is precisely what Aurobindo affirms, but without any slur on the word "sport. ... Quoting Bradley and Green to the effect that the relation between Brahman and the manifest world can not be known by us (why ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 1992

The integral Advaita of Sri Aurobindo logically demands an integral epistemology where we find a harmonious ... Though Bradley denied the competence of intellect to know the absolute reality, he accepted intuition as a means to know the ...

Annual Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta – 1991

This is also, I may note in passing, the view of the leading idealistic thinkers of the present day, such as Bradley and Bosanquet. Here there is a curious agreement between Sri Aurobindo and Bergson. Bergson also believes that ethics ...

The Ethics of Śaṅkara, K. N. Neelakanthan Elayath, University of ... - 1990 - 194 pages
As a solution to this FH Bradley suggested a new method, ie. to reject the perfection of God and accept a limited God. ... According to Aurobindo, Brahman is both immanent and transcendant. It is indefinable by any attributes, ...

Hinduism with a human face, Madhuri Sondhi - 1990 - 199 pages

They find in support of their argument evidence from Hegel, Bradley, Croce, Ward, Husserl and even Wittgenstein, ... He clearly shows a definite tendency of supplying a new metaphysical system as in the case of Sri Aurobindo, ...

Knowledge, freedom, and language: an interwoven fabrics of man, ..., Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1989 - 307 pages

If they do so, how can one maintain, as Aurobindo does, that essentiality, commonalty, and individuality are the eternal terms of existence? ... Even the question remains, addressed more to Aurobindo than to Hegel and Bradley: "Are... [Science, Society, Value and Civilizational Dialogue, Radhakrishnan: The Centenary Volume, On the Alliged Unity of Religions.]

Seven studies in Sri Aurobindo, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1989 - 239 pages

SK Maitra writes that Bradley, while trying to play Hegel against Hegel, "has been instrumental in introducing a ... Sri Aurobindo champions a form of Emergent Evolution which constitutes a far greater challenge than any attack it has ...

Studies in Vedanta, S. S. Raghavachar - 1988 - 272 pages

With so high a proportion of Advaita, that Bradley should have admitted the reality of appearances in the Absolute and accorded to them an ... Even Tantra, SriAurobindo and Radhakrishnan represent this Maya-vada in moderation. ...

Religion and human purpose: a cross disciplinary approach William Horosz, Tad S. Clements - 1987 - 307 pages

There is a pronounced reductionist bias in it.30 Secondly, Sri Aurobindo places reason in between the subconscient, ... 62. Sri Aurobindo's argument at this stage (pp. 338-47) seems to be addressed to such philosophers as FH Bradley. ...

Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta philosophy, Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - 150 pages

But Sri Aurobindo tries to fuse all these conceptions into one, in order to fit in the two parallel currents of ... And ultimately we find in the synthetic approach of SriAurobindo that the integral Brahman is unknowable and yet known, ...

Journal of Dharma Dharmaram College. Centre for the Study of ... – 1987

Sri Aurobindo has referred to Bradley and others, who have arrived through intellectual thinking at the idea of an 'Other beyond Thought' or have even, like Bradley, tried to express their conclusions about it in terms that recall some ...

Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the God-man Daniel E. Bassuk - 1987 - 232 pages

(The Mother, Mira Richard) Sri Aurobindo has been ranked by many a scholar as one of the outstanding figures of the modern world, and has been compared with such philosophers as Bergson, Hegel, and Bradley. Yet his thought is clearly ...

Other Worlds, Other Universes - Page 146, Brad Steiger, John White - 1986 - 260 pages
This was the view of Sri Aurobindo, the Indian mystic. If we give serious consideration to what he and innumerable other explorers of consciousness have told us in all times and climes, then it seems that the study of human ...

Knowledge, value & other essays Harsiddh Maganlal Joshi - 1986 - 239 pages

I started with the metaphysics of FH Bradley. I worked upon the criterion of ... SriAurobindo in his magnum opus 'The Life Divine ' has clearly propounded the principle of Psychic Being which provides non - egoistic dimension being ...

The philosophy of Advaita: a transition from Śaṅkara to Śrī Aurobindo, Priti Sinha - 1986 - 435 pages

nor moral, nor beautiful nor true as Bradley does."1 It can be described, according to Sankara, neither as this nor as that (neti, neti). Mr. PM Modi in his translation of...

Indian philosophical annual University of Madras. Centre of Advanced Study ... – 1986

When the Neo-Hegelianism of TH Green, FH Bradley, and Edward ... In the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo we find an attempt to integrate materialism and idealism lo synthesise science, metaphysics, and religion, and seeks to understand the ...

Vulnerability & Responsibility

Animal Capacity and Vulnerability from Critical Animal by Scu

What is at stake here is what Derrida has frequently called the 'propers of Man', those capacities that Man believed she alone had access to. It is a system of anthropocentrism that is destabilized by all of these animal capacities. This focus on animal capacity or generally anti-anthropocentric capacity, however, seems to contradict another important theoretical development in the political, ethical, and ontological domains of animal philosophy: namely the focused on a shared sense of vulnerability.

This notion of vulnerability is found in thinkers as similar yet diverse as Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Cora Diamond, Cary Wolfe, and to some degree in Jean-Luc Nancy and his notion of exposure. It is a concept I have found particularly useful (you can see some of my public work on this here and here), and I am sure many other young scholars have as well. The concept of vulnerability seeks to reorient our philosophical commitments away from what we can do and more to our sense of precariousness or finitude (as an aside, in the back of my mind has been the thought that thinking vulnerability alongside Bruno Latour's notion of trial by strength, but it hasn't gone anywhere yet). Therefore, a focus on animal capacity seems to contradict (or at least is rendered to a mere curiosity by) the commitment to vulnerability. Indeed, Cora Diamond has remarked that the moral basis of vegetarianism is endangered by arguments that seek to confuse the boundary lines between the human animal and the non-human animal.

New Book: The Origins of Responsibility from Continental Philosophy by Farhang Erfani

François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition.

François Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of Heidegger and the Subject and is translator (with Andrew Mitchell) of Martin Heidegger’s Four Seminars (IUP, 2003).

comment on the Rorty quip from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek (Graham Harman)

The unity of objects, for Husserl, is in those objects themselves, not in a human subject that bundles or counts them. 

Exo-Qualities (I Really Need a Better Term!) from Larval Subjects

Although I am sympathetic with some aspects of Bergson’s Matter and Memory, I here diverge strongly from attempts toontologize his account of memory and the pure past, or to treat all objects as containing a memory. I see no good reasons for supposing this is the case with rocks or my coffee mug, for example. Rather, this sort of relation to the past seems to belong exclusively to reflexive objects. 

The Dialogue With Death (Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, A Mystical Approach) - Page 144          Rohit Mehta - 2003 - 370 pages

As the poet says: All Nature dumbly calls to her alone To heal with her feet the aching throb of life And break the seals on the dumb soul of man And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things.

Great Heideggerian Earthquake

quick response to Shaviro from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek (Graham Harman)

As for the Kant point, I already agreed with Shaviro last summer that my position is in agreement with Kant’s on the things-in-themselves. It’s the other side of Kant (privilege of the human world relation) which is more dominant these days, and on that point I have nothing to do with Kant.

a reawakened thread from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek (Graham Harman)

And my conclusion is that, even though Heidegger tries to give certain ontological privileges to Dasein, he fails to do so. If you rigorously follow the labor that is actually accomplished by terms such ready-to-hand and present-at-hand (as I have), you will find that Heidegger’s attempts to restrict these terms to the human realm cannot possibly be maintained– and that if ready-to-hand and present-at-hand represent rigorous and stunning philosophical breakthroughs, his assignment of these terms to the sphere of Dasein is not rigorous and stunning, but simply show the way in which Heidegger was still a product of his era. (And by the way, Heidegger makes similar claims about most of his predecessors, so I don’t think he’d be in any position to scream about my doing it to him.)

It is a commonplace of intellectual history that later interpretations can be more true to the original than the original itself… Kant’s successors are always doing this: the amputation of the Ding an sich is not strictly true to Kant’s own intentions (recall his dismissive public letter about Fichte), but it can easily make sense to say “the things in themselves play no genuine role in Kant’s philosophy, and merely show the way in which he remained wedded to a tradition that he could never fully overcome; hence, we should simply dispense with them.” (One can always debate whether this is true or not –see Rae Langton’s Kantian Humility for the one of the most powerful opposing readings– but it’s obviously not a ridiculous thing to say about Kant.) […]

I was most definitely a Heideggerian between early 1988 and late 1997, i.e. from ages 19-29. No one spends the vast majority of their free time in their twenties reading 60+ volumes by a difficult philosopher in a foreign language (after spending a couple thousand scarce dollars to acquire them) with a purely disinterested, neutral attitude. No, I thought Heidegger was pretty much right about everything but politics (with a few other peripheral objections: “he’s too pessimistic about technology,” “his treatment of animals isn’t very impressive,” etc.) 

comment on the Rorty quip from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek (Graham Harman)

The unity of objects, for Husserl, is in those objects themselves, not in a human subject that bundles or counts them. 

Completely original and meticulously argued philosophical manifesto

After finitude: an essay on the necessity of contingency  Quentin Meillassoux, Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier - 2008 - 148 pages
simply says the same thing as science: had there been a witness to the fall of the vase, he or she would have seen it fall according to the laws of gravity; ... Reviews

Sobering - Nin Chan "Nin Chan" - Amazon.com
Well, I sat up all evening reading this- I had to read various sections twice to make all the connections that the text supplies. I have to say that it is, beyond being a startlingly *original* text ...

Clear, Bold, Provocative - Lost Lacanian - Amazon.com
There is no questioning that Continental philosophy is derided for a supposed obscurantist quality--mostly by Analytic philosophers, but also other forms of lazy minded people. French thinkers in ...

A Great Work of Contemporary Philosophy - Martin M. Rayburn - Amazon.com
Meillassoux's first book is nothing less than a completely original and meticulously argued philosophical manifesto. Drawing upon the ontology of his teacher, Alain Badiou, Meillassoux aims to prove ... Write review

This is the most rigorous attempt yet to initiate the 'Death of God', breaking with the disavowed fideism/pietism of post-structuralism. I can't help but feel that meillasoux takes especial issue with the haphazard bricolage of Bataille, Levinas and Kierkegaard that constitutes 'deconstructive' religiosity today, and this can be read alongside Zizek's 'The Puppet and the Dwarf' as an attempt to salvage a (militant) thought of universality and the absolute from mystical obscurantism. 

It should be said that Meillasoux is unequivocal on this point: he is a hyper-rationalist who is attempting to free philosophy from its own affectations of modesty, a legacy of self-deprecation that has only served to dissimulate its ressentiment and will to power. In consigning thought to the iron cage of the all-too-human, 'correlationism' is nothing other than the name of thought's prostration, connoting the surrender of its own indomitable sovereignty. By inserting the (thinking/linguistic/intentional/historical/conscious) being-in-the-world into every thought, correlationism effectively forecloses thought's access to the alterity of the world, the 'great outdoors' of non-human/ahistorical reality. Even in its most radical variants (nietzsche, heidegger, foucault), correlationism scarcely breaks with this imperative of mediation and 'co-propriation'. 

Sticky Networks from Larval Subjects

I don’t find the correlationist argument very convincing– it’s a bit like undergrad arguments that everything is perception –but I do believe that sticky networks exist. We often find ourselves trapped in life or spider webs of our own making. Sticky networks are like correlationism in this respect, with the added caveat that they are accurate representations of what life is actually like rather than phantoms of tired philosophers. In trying to escape them you unwittingly reproduce them. The question then becomes that of how it’s possible to nullify the adhesive of these sorts of networks. At what point does the network become something entirely other?

All interpretations are narratives

Postcolonial theory and the crisis of European man L Gandhi - Postcolonial Studies, 2007 - informaworld.com

There is no ultimate horror of empirical impurities in this setting: the minimal moralist, Sri Aurobindo insists in another context, follows a ... So Serres will concur in the course of his engaging conversations with Bruno Latour, suggesting that the disposition which produces an ... 

Comparative Mystics [PDF] JJ Kripal - Common Knowledge, 2004 - Mol Biology Soc Japan

The Oriental Renaissance has been definitive as well for modern Hinduism—definitive in its pluralistic expressions (Aurobindo's evolutionary meta ... “Solidarity is not,” as Richard Rorty puts it, “dis-covered by reflection but created.” Or in Bruno Latour's words ... 

Dialogue with the Archaic V KHACHATURYAN - Social Sciences, 2007 - dlib.eastview.com
the past (this happened in the 19th century thanks to the efforts of Ram Mohun Roy, Ghose Aurobindo, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda ... In the 15th-17th centuries Marsilio Ficino, Tommaso Campanella, Giordano Bruno, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von ... 

The evolution of consciousness as a planetary imperative: An integration of integral views psu.edu [PDF] J Gidley - Integral Review, 2007 – Citeseer

Movement of consciousness is a poetic-conceptual phrase that was used by Hegel, Goethe and Sri Aurobindo, to express something of the complexity I am trying to elucidate in my contribution to evolution-of- consciousness theory. ... 

 “Such a Body We Must Create:” New Theses on Integral Micropolitics integral-review.org [PDF] DG Anderson - Integral Review, 2008 - integral-review.org
in significance to Stravinsky's or Joyce's, or that the oeuvre of any integral theorist (Aurobindo, Gebser, Krishnamurti, Wilber) is analogous in importance to that produced by Dickens, Scott, or Tchaikovsky. ... 

Western Esotericism, Eastern Spirituality, and the Global Future msu.edu L Irwin - Journal of Esoteric Study. Dostopno prek: 2001 - esoteric.msu.edu

Eastern spiritual teachers, with Western education like Sri Aurobindo, have had a powerful impact on this process, offering their ... a second volume in which he favorably compares Vedanta philosophy with the esoteric writings of hermeticist Giordano Bruno, alchemist Raymond ... 

Pharmaceutical citizenship: antidepressant marketing and the promise of demarginalization in India S Ecks - Anthropology & Medicine, 2005 - informaworld.com

Recently, Bruno Latour (2004) renewed his proposals to overcome thinking in such dichotomies. ... Virtually all the major figures of modern Hinduism, for example Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, and even MK Gandhi, emphasized mind-control as a path to enlightenment, freedom ... 

Hindu Avatāra and Christian Incarnation: A Comparison N Sheth - Philosophy East and West, 2002 - jstor.org

In modern times, there are quite a number of individuals who are regarded as avataras by their followers, for example Ramakrishna and Aurobindo, among many others. It is interesting to note that Mira Richard or the Mother of Pondicherry, who was born in Paris of Egyptian ...

Myth, history, and theory history and theory.org [HTML] P Heehs - 1994 - jstor.org Myth, History, and Theory, by Peter Heehs Wesleyan University. Abstract

Myth and history are generally considered antithetical modes of explanation. Writers of each tend to distrust the data of the other. Many historians of the modern period see their task as one of removing all trace of myth from the historical record. Many students of myth consider history to have less explanatory power than traditional narratives. Since the Greeks, logos (word as demonstrable truth) has been opposed to mythos (word as authoritative pronouncement). In more general terms myth may be defined as any set of unexamined assumptions. Some modern historians have become aware that much so-called factual history is interfused with such assumptions. What we call history is at best mythistory. Some even suggest that there can be no real distinction between the discourses of myth and history, between fact and fiction.

The Agastya-Aurobindo narrative is an example of an account based on factual materials that gradually became transformed into fiction. It is accepted by some as historical truth; however when its development is studied critically, one can see that successive narrators "euphemistically" transformed its constituent propositions. The Ramjanmabhumi narrative (at the center of sectarian conflict in India) took form in much the same way. It is not possible to accept these legends as historical truth, though there is no reason why they could not be used as the basis of artistic creations. To avoid conflict by attempting to keep myth and history entirely separate may not be possible because the two interpenetrate. The most fruitful approach to the problem might be to work towards a dialectical resolution.

Narrative Painting and Narratives about Paintings: Poussin among the Philosophers P Heehs - Narrative, 1995 - jstor.org

His most recent book is The Bomb in Bengal: The Origins of Revolutionary
Terrorism in India. He lives in Pondicherry, India, where he is associated with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library. The ... 

Climbing the Spiritual Ladder J Price - 2006 - books.google.com

Aurobindo called the higher type of emotion “spiritual passion” or “aspiration.” Deep within our soul is passion for the divine, passion for living the spiritual ... According to Italian philosopher, Giodano Bruno, “It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses ...

Excerpt D. The Look of a Feeling: The Importance of Post/Structuralism, kenwilber.com [PDF] I Post-Metaphysics - 2006

traditions and philosopher-sages (from Plotinus to Shankara to Gautama Buddha to Hegel to Aurobindo to Whitehead) built much of their interpretive frameworks with the concept of perception (as awareness/consciousness): the nature of this moment perceives, grasps, or ... 

Integral psychology: Consciousness, spirit, psychology, therapy K Wilber - 2000 - books.google.com
But many of the perennial philosophers—Plotinus and Aurobindo, for example—have found around a dozen levels of consciousness to be the most useful, and that is roughly what I have presented in the charts (pp. ... Take Aurobindo, for example (see chart 2b). ... 

The re-enchantment of the West: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture, and occulture CH Partridge - 2006 - books.google.com
In other words, we are not here thinking of the interior knowledge and experience of a transcendent reality external to the self - which is what Heelas and Woodhead would understand to be 'life-as spirituality'.19 'A spiritual atmosphere,' says Sri Aurobindo, 'is more important ... 

Critique Beyond Resentment: An Introduction to Peter Sloterdijk's Jovial Modernity S Van Tuinen - Cultural Politics: an International Journal, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
But by tracing the “prehistory” of psychoanalysis in the “magical ties” and “magnetic” and “hypnotic” affects and interferences which he finds in the works of Ficino, Bruno, Mesmer, and German idealism (mainly Schelling and Hufeland), Sloterdijk describes transitive relations ... 

Hadith-Hurling, History and the "New Clerics" of Pondicherry: Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im

Barber's analysis of "democracy" and Sri Aurobindo - particiaptory intentional communities and world government Jihad Vs. McWorld - the Introduction by Benjamin Barber

Sri Aurobindo's "A Vision of Science" - the Three Angels and the Answer that "pealed from our ancient hills": Religious Nationalism and Transnationalism in a Global World by Mark Juergensmeyer

to rush things is the reputed prerogative of the devil & inattention to data is a quite typical method for the development and expression of reactionary opinion. methodology and logic is faulty, which leads not to insight, a desired goal, but to oversight.

Von Franz was convinced that through the feminine principle of Eros or relatedness, along with feeling and intuition, the wounds created by the Western patriarchal worldview will be healed. 

Pondy, here I come The Hindu

Auroville: A village. See, breathe and listen to nature at its best. ... Auroville also hosts a number of foreigners who have decided to be a part of this ...

The highest state as per Patanjali, Plotinus, & Sri Aurobindo

The meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy Sisir Kumar Maitra - 1956 - 451 pages PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM I start then with the relation between philosophy and mysticism, as viewed respectively by Plotinus and Sri Aurobindo. Here, however, there is an initial difficulty, for the term mysticism has been defined by ...

The mysticism of Plotinus for instance holds that action ... For both of them, Patanjali and Plotinus, transcending the human consciousness is the highest state; but for Sri Aurobindo remaining in the world and not cutting oneself away ...

I have already dealt with the question whether Sri Aurobindo can be regarded as a mystic in my article Sri Aurobindo and Plotinus … Sri Aurobindo cannot be called a ...

Sri Aurobindo and Jung: a comparative study in Yoga and depth ... Satya Prakash Singh - 1986 - 239 pages
For, disciplines akin to yoga were followed by Plotinus and European mystics even in the beginning of the Christian ... an unbridgeable gulf between the Eastern and the Western spiritual practices, Sri Aurobindo is not convinced by it. ...

Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of evolution V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1966 - 385 pages
Aurobindo avoids Plato's tragedy not by lowering the intuitions, nor by raising the logic, as Aristotle does but by still ... In fact, Dean Inge emphatically declares the mysticism of Plotinus and his Christian imitators to be ' false ...

The search for beauty: a comparative study of Sri Aurobindo's ... Hariram Jasta - 1988 - 120 pages
Sri Aurobindo is a mystic par excellence, a mystic who goes beyond Plotinus and Longinus in attributing a numinosity to art; yet through art he wants to bring about union of the spirit and matter as he believes that the immaculate ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1994
Furthermore, I begin to doubt not only whether Nair has read Sri Aurobindo enough but also whether he has even dived sufficiently into Boethius and Plotinus. Boethius expounds the "blessedness" of a good life according to God's ...

Perspectives on Vedānta: essays in honor of Professor P.T. Raju - Page 64 Poolla Tirupati Raju, S. S. Rama Rao Pappu - 1988 - 206 pages
Part of the problem Aurobindo faced in trying to explain what he meant by intuition was that he had to use reason to explain ... In addition he was a prophet of cosmic evolution, and only time will tell whether he, Plotinus, Hegel, ...

Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy - Page 153 Paulos Gregorios, International Society for ... - 2002 - 275 pages
For Plotinus philosophy is a way of life, what in India is called sadhana, a way leading the philosopher to a vision of, and union with, what he calls The One. SriAurobindo takes philosophy as what it means in the modern world. ...

Philosophy, religion, and the coming world civilization: Essays in ... Leroy S. Rouner, William Ernest Hocking ... - 1966 - 506 pages
fully aware of the One in the upper levels of consciousness as Plotinus was. But I think this is most unlikely. ... For instance, Sri Aurobindo, a Hindu mystic who died only a few years ago, writes that "the mind when it passes those ...

Early Buddhism and its origins Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1973 - 505 pages
From the Rgvedic seers to Bergson and Aurobindo,1 and from Buddha and Plato to Nagarjuna, ... Plotinus also used to experience hypnosis or ekstasis. Hegel was a determined opponent of mysticism but there is a passage in the The ...

The marriage of sense and soul: integrating science and religion Ken Wilber - 1998 - 225 pages
Indeed, Plotinus — arguably the greatest philosopher- mystic the world has ever known — usually gave the Great Chain twelve ... Table 2-1 shows the typical Great Nest as presented by Plotinus and Sri Aurobindo, two of its greatest ...

The Literary criterion                     2002 Interestingly it was followed by yet another paper on Aurobindo but in juxtaposition with Plotinus by Dr. AP Dani. As both were mystics engaged in a quest for the Self, the accent was understandably on the transcendental nature of ...

The radical thinkers: Heidegger and Sri Aurobindo Rhoda Priscella Le Cocq - 1972 - 214 pages
As a philosopher, Sri Aurobindo's "retirement", therefore, was more in the manner of Plotinus, not in the manner of Heidegger. ... On the second floor of a two-storey grey stucco building, Sri Aurobindo lived and wrote. ...

Theosophist Magazine February 1951-October 1951 - Page 416 C. Jinarajadasa - 2003 - 392 pages

In our time a few individuals have taken up this problem, and amongst them are Alexis Carrel and Sri Aurobindo Ghose.... the Greek philosopher Plotinus in the En- neads : " All things aspire towards self-expression, life and activity. ...

On the edge of the future: Esalen and the evolution of American ... - Page 101 Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck - 2005 - 323 pages
Murphy has noted that although Spiegelberg was never as influenced by Aurobindo as he was and in fact could be quite ... Saint Paul, and Plotinus; and ended with the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna as the exemplar of the unity of world

The spiritual monarchies of Asian gurus, as we have repeatedly learned over the last forty years, do not always do well with democratic values such as radical individualism, human equality, gender justice, and the freedom of critical expression.