December 18, 2012

Sri Aurobindo's theses on biology, psychology, and sociology

India's True Voice - Page 67 - Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - Preview - More editions So it must study the cosmos that is, observe its modes, habits, laws, catch its spirit and thus reproduce itself in its likeness. In somewhat more technical language Aurobindo asserts this same positive fact. If, he says, we strive to lift ourselves out ...
Derrida and Ind Philosop - Page 112 - Harold G. Coward - 1990 - Preview - More editions This clue, with its emphasis on the double sense of poetic words, also provided the basis for Aurobindo's analysis of language. Aurobindo maintained that the ancient mystics discovered the true knowledge and sacredness of life. This wisdom ...
Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 29 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More editions As for mystics' paradoxical language, Aurobindo suggests that it is often resolvable by better articulation and perspicuity. He claims that Brahman is "infinite" such that some predicates which would be contradictory when attributed to finite ...
The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 217 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview It is not possible for the untransformed mind to translate the radically different height of the supramental Consciousness-Force into human language. Sri Aurobindo does not ask everybody to become supramental; in the first step of ...
Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 145 - Indrani SanyalKrishna RoyJadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - In his study of the Vedic language, Sri Aurobindo has dwelt at length on this issue. Studied intellectually, we may not find any natural or inherent equivalent between any sound and its sense. There must have been an indefinable quality in the ...
Knowledge, freedom, and language: an interwoven fabrics of man, ... - Page 189 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1989 - While Wittgenstein was deeply persuaded of the necessity of picturesqueness and the clarity of logical language, Aurobindo takes these traits as indicative of the poverty of the same. Secondly, the former's mysticism is primarily an admission ...
Environment Evolution & Values - Page 71 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo's theses on biology, psychology and sociology are all integrally related by his main evolutionary metaphysical theory. Compared to Pierre Teilhard's language, Sri Aurobindo sounds more metaphysical. But in fairness to both it ...
Report, with accompanying papers - Issue 120 - Page 88 - Dante Society of America - 2004 - ... Aurobindo shares with Dante the same philosophical/theological quest expressed in symbolic and metaphoric language. Aurobindo and Savitri The child of a Bengali Anglophile, Aurobindo had been raised speaking English and educated ...
Papers in language and linguistics - Volume 3 - Page 72 - Ujjal Singh Bahri - 1997 - Poetic language, Aurobindo feels, ought to mediate between God and man. The instinct to create language lies in the creative intensity of the poet : "Something of the language may be supplied by the mind or vital something may break ...
Dynamic Facets of Indian Thought: Western impact on Indian thought - Page 107 - Anil Kumar Sarkar - 1988 - Savitri was written in blank verse to catch something of the Upanisadic and Kalidasian movement, so far as that is a possibility in English language. Aurobindo used Savitri as a means of ascension, from a certain mental level to reach a higher ...
Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Sri Aurobindo - Page 380  - Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Rand Hicks - 1993 - Someone had commented that nobody would understand Savitri with all its mystical turns and abstruse language. Sri Aurobindo replied that he had not written Savitri for anybody but for himself. That is the perspective in which you have to ...
Sri Aurobindo's prose style (with a foreword by V.K. Gokak) - Page 82 - Goutam Ghosal - 1991 - Here again in this casual narrative exercises, we stand before a lord of language. Sri Aurobindo knows how to combine poetry and irony in his narrative. "Who the devil are you?" cried the young man again, marvelling. As if to answer the moon ...
World Religions: India's religious quest - Page 68 - Young Oon Kim - 1976 - Using familiar Christian language, Aurobindo calls for "a new kind of theocracy, the kingdom of God upon earth, a theocracy which shall be the government of mankind by the Divine in the hearts and minds of men. " 16 For such a new age the...
Knowledge, Consciousness and Religious Conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 14 - Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - Preview Aurobindo lacks Lonergan's complex theory of meaning and value and the role of language. Aurobindo's strength is his phenomenology of meditation practice. This final chapter will try to show the strength and weaknesses of each approach...
Papers On Indian Writing In English : Poetry - Page 5 - A.N. Dwivedi - 2001 - Preview - More editions ... "Thought the Paraclete" and "The Rose of God" are among the finest mystical poems in the English language. Sri Aurobindo has also successfully employed classical quantitative meters to his own purpose and accomplished new harmonies...
Homer and the Iliad, Sri Aurobindo and the Ilion: illumination, ... - Page 53 - Kireet Joshi, Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 2004 - Let us also mention here that this great poem comes to us in the royal garment of hexameter in the contemporary English language. Sri Aurobindo had suggested in his essay On Quantitative Metre that "The Hexameter, half a dozen of the ...
Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and ... - Page 256 Hananya Goodman - 1994 - Preview - More editions The style of the two poets is very different, even allowing for the difference in language. Sri Aurobindo, as was seen earlier, owes a lot to Vedic hymns and to Romantic poetry. At times he seeks to attain the conciseness of mantra. But, on the ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence - Page 114 - William KlubackMichael Finkenthal - 2001 - This divine yearning belonged to an age when man believed himself to be close to divinity, when the separations were not abysmal and unbridgeable. Today, we mock language. Sri Aurobindo observed that "no thinking age has been so far ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 348 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - Behind the guarded language, Sri Aurobindo had made his second open letter both an ultimatum to the Government and a mobilisation order to the Nationalist party. Ill It was perhaps expected that, as after the publication of the first letter in ...
Education In Emerging Indian Society - Page 357 - Y.K. Singh - Preview - More editions Training of Language Explaining his principle for training of language, Sri Aurobindo finds out that first the child should know the things and then the ideas. He laments that most of the dealings with language show an absence of fine sense of ...
Gandhi-Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on Bhagavadgita - Page 46 - Susmit Prasad PaniGeeta Satpathy - 2009 - They had the natural barrier of language. Sri Aurobindo couldn't communicate fluently in Bengali and Mrinalini in English. They seemed to have drifted apart gradually and the marriage was not a landmark in the life of Sri Auronindo.

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