Displacement or reversed legitimation; Downright denial is no better than dogmatic assertion

The philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin - Jan Feys - 1973 - 276 pages - Damodaran criticises Aurobindo on this point: "... he created an artificial dualism between matter and spirit; for, according to him, matter was confined to physical elements only. The inherent properties of matter and its capacity ...

The Essential Aurobindo - Page 267 - Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - 288 pages - Preview It is largely on the basis of this conception of the soul working in concert with the evolutionary process that Aurobindo criticizes traditional conceptions of rebirth. According to Aurobindo, the position of Advaita Vedanta (an ...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 50 = Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages - Preview When fulfilled, the subjective age would be the age of complete freedom and spiritual unity, the fulfilment of the dream of the millennium.32 Sri Aurobindo is aware that his view may be criticised as Utopian and that it is open to other ...

Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta philosophy - Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - 150 pages - 45 Moreover when we cast a glance at Sri Aurobindo's world view, we find, that Sri Aurobindo criticises Sarikara's theory of world illusionism and he passes a sarcastic remark against the approach of Sankara. Sri Aurobindo expresses his

Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 48 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - 111 pages - Preview Aurobindo criticises Benthamism from the standpoint of idealistic ethics. He said, "Its shallow portentous errors, its substitution of a practical, outward and occasional test for the inner, subjective and absolute motive of ethics, ...

Sri Aurobindo and Iqbal: a comparative study of their philosophy - M. Rafique - 1974 - 213 pages - In the introductory chapter, we have referred to Sri Aurobindo's letter to his younger brother, Barinder Kumar. In this letter, Sri Aurobindo criticises the ideal of self-absorption in the featureless Absolute Reality, ie, ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 459 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages - Preview 121 It is interesting to note how Ken Wilber attempts to elaborate on some limitations he observes in Sri Aurobindo's vision, but unfortunately he does not always get the whole meaning of that which he sympathetically criticises.

The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular: Auroville and ... - Page 31 - Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages - Preview Aurobindo credited the problems he saw with other Indian religious positions to their lack of extensive intuitive vision of the ... Aurobindo criticizes Vivekananda too for making seva, or service itself, into a universal requirement. No matter how essential seva was to Vivekananda, ... Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism - Page 97 - Harold G. Coward - 1987 - 340 pages - Preview

Christian Inculturation in India - Page 108 - Paul M. Collins - 2007 - 234 pages - Preview However Sharma argues Aurobindo should be considered as a proponent of Hindutva in terms similar to Dayananda's ...

The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Ram Nath Sharma, Ram Nath Sharma - 1963 - 191 pages - With mysticism, Sri Aurobindo has great sympathy. He strongly criticises the anti-mystic tendency characteristic of many modern psychologists. Downright denial is no better than dogmatic assertion. Nothing can be achieved without faith, ...

The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: his idea of evolution - Joseph Veliyathil, Joseph Veliyathil - 1972 - 97 pages - Singing, dancing etc. can also influence the mental state- Aurobindo regards all these as non-valid experiences as they are caused artificially. ... Aurobindo criticizes Sankara because the nature of the Absolute ...

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 96 - Hugh B. Urban - 2003 - 372 pages - Preview Aurobindo, too, criticizes the passivity and weakness of Bengalis, calling them to a more virile, militant stance against their oppressors. He urges his countrymen to find a new inner strength and even “hyper-masculinity”—the warrior ...

Encountering Kālī: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West - Page 184 -  Rachel Fell McDermott, Jeffrey John Kripal - 2003 - 321 pages - Preview Aurobindo himself is painfully aware of the figure of the "effete Babu," the fawning, submissive servant of the colonial administration. He too criticizes the "passivity" and weakness of modern Bengalis, who have been "emasculated" by...

Revisioning Environmental Ethics - Page 80 - Daniel A. Kealey - 1990 - 136 pages - Preview Aurobindo criticizes the narrowly axiological emphasis of the Indian traditions with their one-sided preoccupation with individual salvation. The mythological structure of consciousness in which this cyclical and dipolar worldview was ...

Indian critiques of Gandhi - Harold G. Coward, Harold G. Coward - 2003 - 287 pages - Aurobindo's relationship as a revolutionary to the Indian National Congress came to a head with the Surat session of ... First Series (Chapter VI) where he supports the Gita's idea of Dharma Yuddha and criticizes, though not expressly, ...

Concepts of reason and intuition: with special reference to Sri ... - Ramesh Chandra Sinha, Ramesh Chandra Sinha - 1981 - 234 pages - 46 Sri Aurobindo contends that the blind movement may not be a good substitute for mechanistic evolution. S. Alexander's "emergent evolution" comes close to SriAurobindo's conception of evolution. Like Alexander, Sri Aurobindo also ...

Nanakism: a new world order, temporal and spiritual - Ishar Singh, Ishar Singh - 1976 - 288 pages - About Aurbindo's political philosophy, his great admirer, Dr. Varma says 'The fundamental weakness of Aurobindo's political philosophy is a lack of adequate empirical substantiations. Whenever he criticizes a political scheme or ...

Environment Evolution & Values - Page 61 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - 332 pages - Preview Lysenko criticizes the Darwinian theory.16 He claims to have scientifically established the possibility of ... Sri Aurobindo's theory also has a pronounced political implication. While Sri Aurobindo would claim that it is more or less a ...

The Fuzzy Logic of Encounter: New Perspectives on Cultural Contact - Page 154 Sünne Juterczenka, Gesa Mackenthun - 2009 - 232 pages - Preview “that 'Hegel' and the 'Gita' can be read as two rather different versions of the manipulation of the question of ... Spivak shows that nationalist as well as spiritualist commentaries on the Gītā by Sri Aurobindo and Servapalli Radhakrishnan at the beginning of the twentieth century are more or less a displacement or reversed legitimation of earlier Western readings of the text. ...

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the ... - Page 62 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - 1999 - 449 pages - Preview I would argue that just as nationalism in many ways is a displaced or reversedlegitimation of colonialism, ... Here is Sri Aurobindo: No doubt, [in our attempt at reading the Gita] we may mix a good deal of error born of our own ...

The new Hindu movement, 1886-1911: Volume 1981; Volume 1981 - Rakhal Chandra Nath, Rakhal Chandra Nath - 1982 - 275 pages - entitled "Asiatic Democracy".28 This is how Aurobindo criticises the European concept of democracy in this essay. He begins with a history of the concept: "Democracy has travelled from the East to the West in the shape of Christianity, ...