Justin Just to be fair, it’s not that I’m averse to difficult prose; and there were other specific things about my first impressions of Whitehead that I mentioned besides just the flowing concrescences of jargon. I am not intending on demeaning him in any way. And I never mentioned Russell, although I have mentioned Panikkar who I think is a good example of someone with new concepts, word coinages, challenging prose style, etc, but who seems, to me at least, to be much more eloquent and fleshes out his concepts and coinages carefully and coherently rather than in a chaotic muddle. I don’t see how anything could ‘do violence’ to the chaotic depths. I think it is usually the chaotic depths that do violence to us! But I also conceded that I have not really read Whitehead and that this was only a first impression…
#Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul http://t.co/anS92OiXNe
Didn’t realize they were working on an RV translation together. What a great team of scholars to do that.
Sanjeev Sabhlok
Sanjeev Sabhlok. Now for the next round (previous). Here is Kalicharan Tuvij's response (bolding, underline, colouring are mine):
India should be seen as the world's greatest melting pot, not as the originator of proto-indo-aryan, but the developer and innovator of these and many more ideas.
The only sensible solution is to have an In and Out Theory. Surely ideas came into India, and surely many went outside India. We are talking about a period of 2500 years (4000-1500 bc). Why would there only be ONE directional flow (from any side)?
In 2003, Rod published Sri Aurobindo and the Logic of the Infinite: Essays for the new Millennium. Other publications includeThe Poetry of Sri Aurobindo – Mantra, Metrics and Meaning (2009), and The Philosophy of Evolution – Darwin and Sri Aurobindo(2011).
From 2005 to 2013 Rod has lectured on philosophy and poetry at the University of Human Unity in Auroville, where he was also Principal of New Era Secondary School. During May-August 2013 he has presented a series of workshops on the Kena Upanishad and Savitri in the USA. Texts and audio recordings of these and other presentations are available at http://universityofhumanunity.org/
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Oct 10, 2014 - As presented here, The Philosophy of Evolution, is a compendium of lectures presented by Rod Hemsell at the University of Human Unity in ...Evolution, Religion and the Unknown God
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Besides, what is nowadays generally labelled as Darwinism hardly resembles what Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species, but is the result of scientific developments at times considered anti-Darwinian. This book narrates the relevant events in ...Hitler and His God: The Background to the Nazi Phenomenon
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The author analyses Mein Kampf, the book in which Hitler laid bare his thoughts and intentions without being believed.Music And Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social ...
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This volume is the first to address the social ramifications of music’s behaviorally manipulative effects, its morally questionable uses and control mechanisms, and its economic and artistic regulation through commercialization, thus ...- Space and Time in an Ontology of Organism - I’m thoroughly enjoying Jimena Canales social, scientific, and philosophical history of the Einstein-Bergson debate in The Physicist and the Philosopher: E...14 hours ago
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Dec 22, 2010 ... For once, practice actually lags behind theory. In their very interesting post on “ Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts,” ...
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Oct 9, 2014 ... From Thomas Aquinas, Pfau jumps to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Henry Newman. Both were Anglican and Romantic. Newman ...
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Oct 23, 2014 ... But the former conception is finally rescued by an unlikely hero, Samuel TaylorColeridge, who is able to show us the way back to what we have ...
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Oct 9, 2014 ... Although Pfau places the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge at the center of his examination of modernity, the conceptual protagonist of the book ...
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Nov 5, 2014 ... It is as though Pfau must conjure an Enlightenment of the most frightful proportions in order to dramatize the struggle of Coleridge and other ...
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