The Hindu : NATIONAL KARNATAKA : Bangalore today July 19,
2012
Sri Aurobindo Complex Trust: Talk on ‘The ideal
of human unity’ by Kittu Reddy of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry, Sri
Aurobindo Complex, J.P. Nagar 1st Phase, 5 p.m.
jleavittpearl - July
18, 2012 at 9:15 pm One might remember though, that Hegel did not view the
end of history as the Prussian state, but instead the crucifiction of Jesus.
(see: Lacoste, The Experience of the Absolute) That is not to say that I
disagree with your analysis of his posture towards his contemporary society,
but merely to indicate that its relation to “history” is somewhat more complex.
About the Ashram’s stand of “not prescribing or
proscribing any book and leaving the choice entirely to the individual”, it is
well known that the Mother’s Agenda brought out by Satprem some thirty years
ago was “proscribed” by the then management. A clarification to this effect is
necessary. Will it come?
jleavittpearl - July
19, 2012 at 12:58 am I remain ambivalent concerning the designation of
Hegel’s theology-of-negation as “atheistic,” as, the term bears some
uncomfortable connotations (particularly in light of the “new atheists”), yet,
there is also a particularly technical understanding of the term (a-theist),
that I think is quite accurate for Hegel.
Regarding Hermeticism, I must say that I am not
particularly familiar with the thought (though your clarification was quite
helpful), nonetheless, I must say that I have always viewed Hegel through a
particularly Boehmian perspective, specifically Boehme’s “Six Theosophic
Points,” which does not posit an entirely negative absolute, in a Maimonidean
sense, but instead (following from its Kabbalistic influences) a complex
self-engendering and interacting absolute, specifically, one which posits a
“ground” (a concrete particular) in itself (itself being the ungrund, the
ungrounded).
This is important for Hegel because a similar
understanding of the absolute, and its relation to its own concrete
manifestation (Christ), can be seen. It is through the “negation” of the
absolute (purely negative God) in the figure of Christ, that God can bear
particularity (i.e. positive attributes)
Schelling on Nature, Humanity, and God (re-reading Iain
Hamilton Grant) from Footnotes to Plato by Matthew David Segall
Last year, some colleagues and I at CIIS
participated in a panel discussion on Speculative Realism called “Here Comes
Everything.” My lecture drew primarily upon Grant’s text Philosophies of
Nature After Schelling (2006). This summer, I’ve been doing research for a
comprehensive exam on the recent resurgence of Schellingian philosophy
Curating the AUFS experience from An und für sich by Adam Kotsko
Even after being definitively taken down, Object-Oriented Ontology appears
to be going strong. Every day, it seems, we hear new stories of people
rejecting correlationism and approaching objects as equals. In many ways, it’s
inspiring. To what can we attribute this success? … The answer, I think, is
clear: successful branding… First of all, it seems clear that we need some type
of logo. Once we have that, I think everything will be a lot clearer.
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