January 26, 2014

Plato, Hegel, and Sri Aurobindo

V. P. Varma - The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 01-Jan-1990 - 494 pages 
At that time I studied Hegel's The Philosophy of History. Then I discovered certain strong points of resemblance between the political thought of Aurobindo and German idealism. Further reflections on the philosophy of history confirmed my ...
... reference to the thought of Dayananda, Vivekananda, Tilak, Pal, Gandhi and Tagore but also with reference to the idealistic school of Western political thought represented by Plato, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Green, Bradley, Bosanquet and others.
My studies in the field of Western philosophy of history especially of Hegel, Marx, Spengler, Toynbee and Berdyaev suggested to me the idea of this reconstruction of Aurobindo's philosophy of history. This study which I have attempted seeks ...
This method we find elaborately employed in the history of European political philosophy, especially with regard to St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Kant and Hegel and even Plato and Aristotle, where not only the theological, metaphysical ...
St. Augustine, Hegel and Marx are philosophers of history in this sense.2 They want to find out the source of the impulsion of historical movements. They may emphasize either God or the absolute idea or the forces of production according to ... Next »
In this sense wherever we get the acceptance of the realistic conception of time we find an element of history.4 Thus we see that contrasted to Schelling, Hegel introduces a dynamic content in his view of the absolute. The metaphysics of ...
First, the rise of the dialectical methodology of Hegel and Marx. Distinguished from a speculative idealism, the dialectic emphasized the ideas of motion, change, progression, catastrophic advance and even sudden retrogression.
Sometimes these metaphysical assumptions are clearly stated as in Hegel, Marx and Toynbee. Sometimes they can only be implicit. It is not possible for a philosopher of history to be an agnostic in his fundamental assumptions. If, for example ...
... of the aspect of supra-cosmic transcendence or essentiality, and therein it is different from the metaphysics of Hegel and Bradley and akin to the traditions of ancient metaphysical Vedantism. Although conceived of as having different poises, ...
... evolution of the human soul through different births.2 (c) Critique of Darwinism Basically and primarily Aurobindo has constructed a theory of cosmic evolution like the Samkhya philosophers of ancient India, Aristotle, Hegel and Spencer.

V. P. Varma - 1990 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions A study of the sources of The Life Divine indicates that at several points Aurobindo has been profoundly influenced by Plato. Aurobindo is not in the habit of mentioning those several philosophers whose thoughts he has incorporated into ..

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