Sri Aurobindo Society:
Meeting, 5, Smith Rd.
Sri Aurobindo Devotees Prayer Centre: Prayer,
Sasi Balika Vidya mandir, R.S. Puram, 9.30 a.m.; Annai Meditation Centre,
Kovaipudur, 4 p.m.
Steered By Cells And Molecules - Science Of Spirituality
Article - Speakingtree.in India's
first Spiritual Networking Website By:
Mukul Sharma on Jun 29, 2012 14
Responses Are we automated by constituents of the body rather than by free
will and identity, asks MUKUL SHARMA.
Interestingly, two psychologists from Santa Barbara
Although the experimenters warned against
generalising from their results, the findings do raise the genuine concern that
widespread encouragement of a deterministic (read soulless) worldview may have
the inadvertent consequence of encouraging immoral behaviour. The concerned
participants did cheat and steal when they thought no one would know or there
was no chance of getting caught, whereas the control group didn’t, in spite of
the test situation being the same. Did they feel they were answerable to some
internal core of control? Who knows? But if ever science does discover that
it’s a totally deterministic universe with no free-will, we’d probably have to
invent a fictive one for society to function optimally.
The Affective Life of Philosophy from Larval Subjects (Levi Bryant) Jun 30, 2012
Whitehead
is another thinker that comes to mind as being pervaded by these sorts of
affective volumes. There is a delight here, a love of the world.
There
are other philosophies that seem populated by a delight taken in organizing and
whittling things down to their precise essence, like the sort of jouissance the
bureaucrat draws from a well organized filing system. The bureaucrat, of
course, has a purpose for filing things in this way. Yet it is difficult to
escape the impression that he enjoys his filing system and forms for their own
sake; that the organization is an end in itself. Here we might think of Hegel
in the Science of Logic, or Husserl’s endless distinctions,
Brandom’s endless distinctions in Making it Explicit, or Sellars. We
might also think of certain moments in high scholasticism.
“has somehow chosen the excerpts maliciously” from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek
(Graham Harman) Jul 1, 2012
But
Meillassoux’s effect on continental philosophy has been precious, and he was
able to pull it off initially with just one short but sublimely engineered book…
Meillassoux is generally a perfectionist who doesn’t like releasing works to
the public unless they are in ultra-fine condition. Levi Bryant insightfully
compared Meillassoux to a “gem cutter.”
Agamben
reads the Western tradition as a series of increasingly destructive failed
attempts to separate them out in some kind of stable and sustainable way. Read more
A Treatise of Human
Nature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia by Scottish philosopher David Hume
(1711 – 1776), first published in 1739–1740.
Hume
himself described the (lack of) public reaction to the publication of the Treatise by
writing that the book "fell dead-born from the press."[1]
Hume intended to see whether the Treatise met with success
and, if so, to complete it with books devoted to morals, politics, and
criticism.[2] It
did not meet with success, and so was not completed.
After
deciding that the Treatise had problems of style rather than
of content, he reworked some of the material for more popular consumption in An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding (1748). It did not prove extremely successful
either, but was somewhat more so than the Treatise. He later also
"cast anew" Book 3 of the Treatise as An Enquiry Concerning
the Principles of Morals (1751), which Hume wrote is "of all
my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best."[3]
The Treatise is now in the public
domain. Books 1 and 2 were originally published in 1739, while Book 3 was
published in 1740.[4]
Moses Mendelssohn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1729 – 1786) was a German Jewishphilosopher to
whose ideas the Haskalah (the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) is indebted.
Ever since his friend Lessing had died, he had wanted to
write an essay or a book about his character. When Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, an
acquaintance of both men, heard of Mendelssohn's project, he stated that he had
confidential information about Lessing being a "Spinozist",
which, in these years, was regarded as being more or less synonymous with "atheist"—something
which Lessing was accused of being anyway by religious circles.[15] This
led to an exchange of letters between Jacobi and Mendelssohn which showed they
had hardly any common ground.
Sabda - Sri Aurobindo Ashram Nov 2003 .pdf
Sri
Nolini Kanta Gupta has given us all a subtle body of literature bound to widely
extend into the frontal consciousness.
What he said of Vivekananda’s words (which woke his courage up in
Alipore) is true of his own: “These are luminous life-giving mantras and the
world and humanity…have need of them.” One-volume editions include Lights from Nolini Kanta Gupta (highlights
taken from individual essays) and Evolution and the Earthly Destiny (selected
essays). Education and Initiation,
translated from the Bengali, more timely than ever, has now been released. His eight-volume Collected Works continue to grow in relevance
and merit more detailed scholarly study.
Surprisingly, the eight volumes are as affordable as they are full of delights
and unexpected turns.
Or
one may prefer to read his translation of Savitri into Bengali. The shining Arjuna of spiritual aspirants has
left us a portion of the new creation, full of the force of yoga and packed
with the light of Sri Aurobindo.
—
Rick Lipschutz discovered the Integral Yoga after exploring other paths and has
been a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother since 1997. A member of the Cultural Integral Fellowship
who attends retreats at Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham in Lodi ,
he lives with his wife and son in San
Francisco , USA
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