Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Again if we look at World-Existence rather in its relation to the self-delight of eternally existent being, we may regard, describe and realise it as Lila, the play, the child’s joy, the poet’s joy, the actor’s joy, the mechanician’s joy of the Soul of things eternally young, perpetually inexhaustible, creating and re-creating Himself in Himself for the sheer bliss of that self-creation, of that self-representation,—Himself the play, Himself the player, Himself the playground. - Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine
https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/delight-of-existence-the-solution
From centralisation follows uniformity and control. Such an approach is Asuric in nature and would impede free evolution of humanity for which diversity and liberty are a requirement. Sri Aurobindo elaborates on a more spiritual/integral approach to human unity later in the book.
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I’m delighted to share my first book, THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM, forthcoming from Oxford University Press on December 1, 2026. Catholicism did not simply survive the Age of Revolutions: it was remade by it. glaucoschettini.com/book/
Yes — one could certainly make that argument about Trent! Part of what my book shows, though, is that even the word “Catholicism,” in something like its modern meaning, only became widely used from the late eighteenth century onward. More importantly, I’m interested in what happened when the old early-modern compact between church and state began to break down. As Catholicism lost state support—even in Catholic countries—it acquired new political and social meanings and had to learn to mobilize in new ways.
https://x.com/GlaucoSchettini/status/2099896520346657198
New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books: Evan Supple on Shannon Hoff's How To Read Hegel Now marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22890_…
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The West is in the process of destroying itself from within - and Oswald Spengler saw it coming a century ago. In The Decline of the West (1918), Spengler argued that civilisations rarely perish from external conquest alone. They collapse when they lose faith in their own identity and begin to take pleasure in their own disintegration. Instead of confidently transmitting their traditions, values and achievements, they turn against themselves. They treat their history as a catalogue of crimes, their institutions as systems of oppression, and their core principles as sources of guilt. At that point, they become culturally defenceless. The modern West displays these symptoms with disturbing clarity. Large parts of its elite actively participate in the vilification of Western civilisation.
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His proposition that this thing he calls civilization operates in cycles is a false conclusion. He had nonspecific conditions for the descriptions of the different phases of the cycle. Some were long and some were extremely short. But for many different reasons. He did argue for the collapse of faith as the determinant of a declining civilisation. But there were so many more which work themselves into each history. Natural disaster, disease, war, loss of natrual resources which inflict pressure upon any civilization. Plus he wrote it during World War One. We have come a long way from that point in history!
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The entire round trip depended on correctly reading and timing 2 opposite seasonal wind systems. From roughly late Oct through Feb, the northeast monsoon blows steadily toward Southeast Asia, a window that begins right around the time the southwest monsoon withdraws from this coast, which is exactly why Kartik Purnima sits where it does, at that hinge point, rather than on some unrelated date. So that is when ships departed the east coast of India, riding that wind toward Sri Lanka and onward to Java, Sumatra, and Bali. Then, once trade was done, sailors could not simply turn around and sail back the way they came, the wind would not allow it. They had to wait, sometimes for months, until the southwest monsoon reversed direction from roughly June to Sep, which is precisely the wind system that would carry them home again.
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I’d recommend this piece by Foucault. He breaks away from the usual image of the intellectual who is the voice of all, and proposes the ‘specific intellectual’, who intervenes from within a specific institution or profession. Most interesting to me, the idea that one aspect of political struggle is also a struggle for the production and recognition of truth. But then, I suppose not so great thing about this text is that he never really offers a solid explanation as to how these local conflicts connect to a broader political project.
https://x.com/praxiss/status/2099938491228393494
A review of Saumya Dey’s Indic Kingship in Theory and Practice: Reconsidering Marxist Historiography, which attempts to decouple Indic kingship from the Marxist lens that has long shaped Indian historiography. Article by Sai Priya Chodavarapu (@priya_27_) brhat.in/dhiti/book-rev…
https://x.com/brhat_in/status/2099730083741368796
Where do we begin with Swami Vivekananda? Join @MakrandParanspe as he discusses the sage’s modernity, ideas, writings and teachings—and their relevance to religion, caste, education and India today. youtu.be/i3fzlIkXskA?si… @PariksithSingh @AmazingVedas
https://x.com/sriaurobindochr/status/2099967744040919280
Is the self an illusion? Julian Baggini argues this question is too simple. bit.ly/3SL0miD He argues that the self is both a construction and real, drawing on philosopher Derek Parfit's ideas to describe a complex, ever-changing, many-sided self which better aligns with our everyday experiences.
https://x.com/IAI_TV/status/2099914924868632858
EPW Engage | In an era entwined with artificial intelligence (AI), this article navigates the profound intersection of Maurice Blanchot’s philosophy of death and the advent of AI, contemplating the implications for life, death, and existence.
https://x.com/epw_in/status/2100034487815950341
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