- Choosing a few traditions - I have long had an ambition which, I am slowly realizing, is unlikely to be fulfilled. It is an ambition suggested in this blog’s title: the idea of putting together all the major philosophical traditions of the world into a full synthesis. Ken Wilber’s work has to date been the most valiant attempt anyone has made to fulfill that ambition. But I have argued in many ways that this attempt has failed. It must fail, in the perennialist form Wilber’s work takes: to claim that all the world’s wisdom (or “religious”) traditions are basically saying the same thing. That claim makes the attempt at putting the traditions together much easier. It is also false.If I ever was a perennialist like Wilber, it would have been a very long time ago, before I started serious study of any traditions. I’ve never thought a synthesis would come that way. A true synthesis would need to be dialectical. But to offer a dialectical synthesis of all traditions seems pretty close to impossible. There is just too much out there. One can certainly love all wisdom, enjoy it, delight in it. But I don’t think one can actually know all wisdom well enough to put it all together in one lifetime. And one lifetime is all any of us has.I’ve recently been closely studying Alasdair MacIntyre‘s work because I think he’s thought through these questions of comparative method more thoroughly than most.
- John Horgan’s article in “Scientific American” on Panpsychism - John Horgan published an essay in Scientific American a few days ago criticizing Tononi’s integrated information theory of consciousness. I don’t understan...
- The Unification of the Impersonal and the Personal Aspects of the Divine Reality - For the integral Yoga, the end result of the Yoga of knowledge is not a dissolution into the vast impersonal Brahman; rather it is the unification of the I...
- Deshpande Visits Italy: At Santa Maria in Acone (W) - Sri Aurobindo’s NaradAccording to the Chhandogya Upanishad, Narad approaches Rishi Sanatkumar and requests him: “Please teach me, revered Sir, adhīhi bhagava...
- Hard passage through a suffering world - M. Alan Kazlev @akazlev tweets: https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/673057099891412992 #SriAurobindo's unique synthesis of Vedantic #metaphysics, Western #ev...
- In thy hard passage through a suffering worldLean for thy soul’s support on Heaven’s strength,Tu...
- Passing away of Sri Aurobindo – The Mother - Mahasamadhi Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness whic...
- Weather Warning as on 04 Dec-08 Dec 2015 - [image: Weather Warning as on 04 Dec-08 Dec 2015] *From: National Disaster Management Authority* - *04 December* Heavy rainfall at a few places wi...
- Needed: Spiritual Practicality - A new post in *Current Events* The world has been busy talking about Climate Change, Solar Energy, Global Terrorism and all these other things. Political ...
- Remember Sri Aurobindo on December 5 - Story of the West between Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) and Jean Gebser (1905–1973) can be considered as the most crucial vis-à-vis Evolution From Raja Ram M...
- Kalatattvakosa and Natyasastra - IGNCA PROGRAMME SCHEDULE FOR DECEMBER, 2015 Date : 10th December, 2015 Event : Book release function of Kalatattvakosa, Volume VII. The Volume will ...
- Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol—Urdu Translation: The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, روح اور تخلیق نوکا گھر, Canto III, III:iii Section 6 ( 88 ) [88.1-88.17] - ،ناآشنا تھی اب لگتی دور کی کائنات وہ دھندلی
- Court has banned the book, not any ordinary man - BAN THE BAN In addition to ‘The Satanic Verses’, here are ten books that India needs to unban now https://t.co/ZwRtFhwtss It’s time to put a stop to India’...
- New Issue of Asian Philosophy (25.4) - Papers of special interest to our readers include: “The Bhagavadgītā, Sen, and Anderson,” by J. M. Fritzman “On the Coherence of Dignāga’s Epistemology: Ev...
- Two Futuristic Innovations – M.S. Srinivasan - When Wright brothers invented the aeroplane and flew it for the first time, Thomas Alva Edison, the great scientist and inventor, was reported to have said...
- Four active powers of the Spirit and its executive Shakti - It will be seen how largely the great triad, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman figure in the hymns to the All-Gods and to the Sons of the Infinite Mother. With Bhaga ...
- NEW BOOK ON SMITH FROM PRINCETON ANNOUNCED - I RECEIVED THIS MORNING SPARSE DETAILS OF NEW BOOK BY *RYAN HANLEY* FROM *PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS * DUE IN JANUARY 2016: *"...
- Sincerity - *The beginning of all progress.* *Botanical Name*: Aster amellus *Common Name: *Italian aster *Spiritual Significance*: *Simple Sincerity* Sincerity i...
- What’s the Right Thing to Do: A Meditation on Dharma, Reason and Offering (Concluded) - Essay published in Collaboration: Journal of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Vol. 40 (2), pp. 29-33. CONTINUED FROM PART 4 PART 5 (CONCL...
- There’s a macho aspect to Žižek - How to Read Žižek on the Refugee Crisis Wednesday, November 25, 2015 — Adam Kotsko Žižek’s recent remarks on the refugee crisis have provoked considerable ir...
- Savitri Era can negate RSS thought system - Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. - Savitri Era Follow Sri Aurobindo's Ideal of Human Unity - It's tempting to un...
- A noble cause requires a heroic stand - MEMORIES OF SRINVANTU SAMYA KANTI MOITRA Days passed on the New Life Movement made and ambitious scheme for raising funds to perform its organisational wor...
- Shikha Guha's courage, dedication, discipline and sense of dignity made her unique - A 'push' for Fair Trade and climate justice The Hindu November 23, 2015 Around 100 people from Puducherry, Auroville, NGOs, schools and colleges gathered on...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Buddhaghosa, Śāntideva, Aristotle, Hume, and Hegel
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