Grand vision and unreliable Utopia in the service of Pedagogy
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28 October, 2016 by Sharon Lam - The Unreliable Utopia of Auroville's Architecture. Near Pondicherry in Southern Indian is Auroville, an experimental township devoted to the ...
Today, Auroville has roughly 2,500 residents and continues to sustain itself, albeit to mixed results. On one hand, the Mother’s utopian vision has somewhat fallen short, with murders, suicides, visitors warned not to go out alone at night, and the questionable control of money in a theoretically “money-less” society. On the other hand, Auroville is a hotbed of creative eco-experimentation, ...
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November 3, 2016 - Auroville's online store offers anything but your regular e-commerce experience. The incremental improvements to auroville.com since it was founded in 2008 ... Shoppers from all over the world do not just purchase a product off the shelves, but, with each transaction, also take away something out of the Aurovillian way, especially its uncompromising adherence to quality, eco-friendly ethos, the advocacy of an urban-rural continuum and how empowerment of communities around the Auroville bio-region are tied to production.
Philosophy of Indian Pedagogy
Kireet Joshi
Presuppositions of Pedagogy
All systems of pedagogy, Eastern or Western, have certain presuppositions which are derived from a larger canvas of human experience. These presupposi-tions include the following:
§ Human growth takes place by means of a natural process, supported or aided by certain deliberate processes and methods;
§ Human growth implies increasing self-consciousness, development of skills and faculties, and the capacities required to meet the challenges of life and of the cultural context in which one is required to meet the demands of the individual and collective life;
§ At a deeper level, human growth is aided by the development of arts, sciences, and technologies that enable the individual and collectivity to build up bridges between the past and the future through accumulation of experience and transmission of valuable lessons of that experience to the growing generations;
§ Increasing effectivity of educational process depends on the degree to which natural processes of growth and deliberate processes of growth are blended harmoniously; and
§ Deliberate processes that are employed for aiding human growth require to be constantly subtilised so that the processes of growth attain increasing acceleration at an optimum level, which may differ from individual to individual and from collectivity to collectivity.
Our physical nature offers an inert obstruction to any radical change - The Yoga of Self-Perfection and the Triple Transformation, by Richard Hartz on Mon 13 Aug 2007
Sri Aurobindo makes this point in a chapter of The Human Cycleentitled “The Suprarational Ultimate of Life”—the longest chapter in the book, whose extensive revision indicates the importance he gave to it… As instances of vital ideals of this kind, he continues, we need only note, however imperfect and dim the present shapes, the strivings of love at its own self-finding, its reachings towards its absolute—the absolute love of man and woman, the absolute maternal or paternal, filial or fraternal love, the love of friends, the love of comrades, love of country, love of humanity.
It is relevant to note that one of these ideals, “the absolute love of man and woman”, is the theme of the ancient story of Savitri and Satyavan. If Sri Aurobindo, instead of completing The Synthesis of Yoga and other works, devoted most of his literary energy in his later years to an epic based on this legend, it was evidently because through this tale of the victory of love over death he could symbolise a truth that was central to his message… Moreover, the debate between Savitri and Death provides an opportunity for bringing out the significance of the ideals which Sri Aurobindo saw as signs of a suprarational influence… In Book Ten, Canto Two, “The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal”, and in “The Debate of Love and Death” which follows, he takes up precisely the question raised in The Human Cycle. 12:02 PM
[Ken Wilber’s breadth and its importance via Love of All Wisdom by Amod Lele on 2/5/12
While I think Hegel was more methodologically sophisticated than Wilber, there is a lot missing from Hegel’s synthesis. Science, especially, has changed a lot, making Hegel’s philosophy of nature difficult to accept; so too, Hegel’s thought has no room for the shining achievement of the 20th century, namely feminism and the liberation of women. And while Hegel at least attempted to include Asian philosophies in his synthesis, in a way that few had before, they were stuck at the earliest and lowest level of his philosophy, making Hegel “strong with respect to time and weak with respect to space”.
All of these vast gaps in Hegel’s thought – science, feminism, Asian philosophy – Wilber has tried hard to give a central place in his thought. His attempted synthesis is the widest one I know of – Wilber gives us some vision of what a unified synthesis now could look like.] Posted at 3:40 PM
My staunch argument is that one is complementary to the other; rationalism or empiricism is inadequate without idealism or spirituality. In this vein, I bring in John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, W.V. Quine, Amartya Sen, and Sri Aurobindo together. I reiterate here that my “philosophical politics” emerges from a dialogue between two ...
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In addition, feminist philosopher Martha Nussbaum plays a major role in the book as do the literary writers of diaspora."
Reason before Identity helped me to consolidate my argument in this book and I proposed that Amartya Sen's theory, which has a great potential in terms of pluralistic identity, could be developed further adding the Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo's theory and I proposed it as a neo-Enlightenment theory. But when Amartya ...
The predominant focus of this book is on the Indian economist cum philosopher Amartya Sen's theory of “ capability,” which rose as a critique of the modern ... 4) then comes the theory of Sri Aurobindo and his theory of democracy, which intersects with John Rawls's theory of comprehensive doctrines and political justice.
A Philosophical Politics Ashmita Khasnabish. Many Western scholars have reservations towards metaphysis, but Quine and Pierce's theories intersect with Sri Aurobindo's theory of descent. ... Amartya Sen extends his theory of capability as a willpower and adds a humanistic dimension to it. He believes in the concept of ...
... because without a root in transcendental philosophical norm, we sometimes tend to become beastly and egocentric. In this regard, I would like to refer to the Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo, whose theory of human civilization and transformation intersects to a certain extent with the theories of John Rawls and Amartya ...
In Aurobindo's psychological vision, reason in man can overcome these limitations through a constant process of purification, enlargement, and openness to become “a power of passive yet sympathetic reflection of the Light that surpasses it” (The Human Cycle xxx). Aurobindo's theory connects with John Rawls's ...
Gillian B. Pierce - 2013 - Preview - More editions
We need to inculcate a notion of ego-transcendence or the sublime. I strive to resolve the conflict between reason and transcendence by reading two Indian philosophers, Amartya Sen and Sri Aurobindo, alongside Western philosophers such as John Rawls. Connecting these philosophers to Jhumpa Lahiri's Namesake ( and ...
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In Humanitarian Identity and the Political Sublime, Ashmita Khasnabish unites Amartya Sen's concept of pluralistic identity with Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of the "religion of human unity," where the European and Western philosophy of ...
... Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign,' in Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right , edited by Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum (New ... The relationship between the thinking of Sri Aurobindo (on whose spiritual values Auroville is said to have been established via his French disciple Mirra ...
Cosmopolitan ideas are found, as mentioned above, in various schools of thought and traditions, such as among the Stoics, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, and Ananta Kumar Giri. Their work is united under the common theme that all human beings belong to one world (see Antweiler ...
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