January 23, 2024

The Life Divine should be included in the college syllabus

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

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My piece for @TheQuint on
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This timeline of the history of philosophy is pretty good, except for the part where process philosophy supposedly ends in 2000! If anything I'd say the last quarter century has been something of a renaissance in Whitehead studies. 

superscholar.org/comp-history-p

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1749618477575573672?t=Xpw-BX9RTvWIg0aAPX34TA&s=19

Continued dominance of Hindutva in the national scene will keep Sri Aurobindo relevant for the scholars since he is the only alternative. The Life Divine should be included in the college syllabus so that people know his philosophy beyond his oft-repeated opinion on nationalism.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1749786073822298555?t=Yoz15QT7n4rbJdmeivns7g&s=19

#Replug | From Vivekananda to Aurobindo, no one’s idea of Hinduism matched the Hindutva of the RSS

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In ‘Hindu Rashtra’, Ashutosh traces the opposition between MS Golwalkar’s views and those of Mahatma Gandhi.

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