Hegel : G.W. Friedrich (1770-1831) what he wrote on ethics, aesthetics, history, & religion influenced Existentialism, Marxism, Positivism, & Analytical philosophy.
... were not rich enough to include so poor a category as being, the very poorest and most abstract of all." 6 With Hegel, as with Spinoza, if we grant the principles of his system, if we agree that the term God means what he meant by it, then the notion of God involves his being. For with Hegel being does not lie beyond thought: it is its initial and simplest determination as it moves dialectically forward... 137. 4. Monadology, sec. 44, Latta's translation. 5. Transcendental Dialectic, Prof. Watson's translation, pp. 208-209. 6. Logic of Hegel, Wallace's tr., 2nd ed., pp. 108-109. The validity of the Theistic Proofs was a subject in which Hegel was interested, and he has written at some length on them in the Appendix to his Phil, der Religion. 7. So A. Dorner, Religionsphilosophie... however, been objected that, while Kant's reasoning may hold of the idea of a particular thing, — say a sum of money — the idea of God as the absolute Being is in a different position. On this ground Hegel tried to rehabilitate the Ontological Proof. In the Hegelian terminology, the being of a finite object in space and time is discrepant from its notion. "God, on the contrary, expressly has to be what ...
... so the experience of the Self can be sublated by the experience of Sunya; it is denied and removed. Page 157 [Note by a correspondent:] "Hegelian philos. (rendering G. aufheben, used by Hegel as having the opposite meanings of 'destroy' and 'preserve'). See quotation: 'Nothing passes over into Being, but Being equally sublates itself, is a passing over into Nothing, Ceasing-to-be. They sublate... sublate not themselves mutually, not the one the other externally; but each sublates itself in itself, and is in its own self the contrary of itself.' (Vide, Oxford English Dictionary.)" Hegel could not have used the word "sublate" as he wrote in German. 5 I do not know what word he used which is here translated by sublate, but certainly it does not mean both destroy and preserve, nor in fact... becomes Non-being instead of being; but so also does Non-being, what was Non-being passes over into being; where there was nothing, there is being; nothing has eliminated itself from the view. This, says Hegel, is not a mutual destruction by two contraries each of which was outside the other. Being inside itself becomes nothing or Non-Being; Non-Being or Nothing equally inside itself passes into being. They ...
... foi catholique (Vol. 3). Teilhard 8 speaks out his mind to his friend: "1. You are in the wrong in scorning the pantheism of the poets. This pantheism is the mysticism of which Spinoza and Hegel have been the theologians. It represents a psychological force, and it contains a considerable lived truth: it is the living pantheism. You are acting like a man who, in Christianity, 'disdains St.... levels? - You contrast Christian morality with the 8. Lettres Intimes..., pp. 89-90: "1° Vous avez tort tie mepriser le pantheisme des poetes. Ce pantheismela est la mystique dont Spinoza et Hegel ont ete les Theologiens. Il represente une force psychologique, et il contient une verite vecue considerable: il est le pantheisme vivant. Vous faites comme un horn me qui, dans le Christianisme, d... the act of its growing universa-lised. That is the sole difference Teilhard would accept between his own Weltanschauung and Spinoza's. Strangely enough, he compares Spinoza as well as Hegel, in connection with the pantheist poets, to St. Aquinas and Cajetan in connection with St. Theresa. The two latter philosophers are not commonly supposed to have distorted in intellectual version the ...
... Kant, Hegel, the Gita, etc. Ultimately Sri Aurobindo was referred to. In the evening Purani took up the topic. PURANI: Anilbaran asks if Buddhi can mean the same thing as Understanding. Professor Maitra says they are the same and so he places Buddhi lower than Reason just as Kant does with Understanding. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, Kant seems to place Understanding lower than Reason—while Hegel, it is... believe, doesn't say that Reason is useless. He admits that it prepares for what is beyond—even for going beyond Sattwa, etc. It is stepping-stone. PURANI: Anilbaran wants to know whether Kant and Hegel had a notion of a faculty beyond mind. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't think so. PURANI: They didn't believe in a suprarational consciousness? SRI AUROBINDO: No, they thought Reason can arrive at the ...
... the Promised Land.” 389 According to Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) the sense of history consists in the working out of the Idea of the Spirit, unfolding itself in phases. For there is a World Spirit which incarnates itself in world history, thereby aiming at a cosmic salvation. The dominant people in the ongoing phase of world history were, taught Hegel, the Germans. “The other peoples have no rights... presented the world with some of the greatest novelists, poets, philosophers and musicians: the literary men Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Heine, Hölderlin; the philosophers Fichte, Schlegel, Hegel, all of them having to define themselves against Kant, paragon of the Aufklärung; and musicians of the stature of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, who even today delight so many hearts with... abstract thinking in the history of philosophy, and is therefore often compared with the Socrates-Plato-Aristotle period in classical Athens. Nonetheless, figures of the format of Fichte, Schlegel and Hegel were so much embedded in the German awakening that, in one way or another, they managed to regard their idea of Germany as the culmination of world history and world culture. “With the significant exception ...
... (RONALD NIXON) TO MR. KOSKE AND A COMMENT BY K. D. SETHNA The Letter September 1946 Dear Mr. Koske, "Whom should I believe?" You can cut Bradley, Bergson, Hegel, etc., out of the list as admittedly their views are mere speculations. They do not even claim to have reached the other shore. How, then, will they guide us? It is useless to reach one unique and final... A system may not give every colour and contour of truth, yet it can be accurate in general outline and general proportion. Of course, as Krishna Prem writes, mere speculators like Bradley, Bergson, Hegel, etc., can never give us the ultimate philosophy. Only those who philosophise through but not with the intellect can be said to be in the running, since they speak out of a light beyond the human ...
... Infinite and Godhead and underlying or overshadowing forces does not make a man a mystic. One would never think of applying such a term to Spinoza, Kant or Hegel: even Plato does not fit into the term, though Pythagoras has a good claim to it. Hegel and other transcendental or idealistic philosophers were great intellects, not mystics."! Yes, Pythagoras, unlike Plato, is unchallengeable; actually elsewhere ...
... cared even to be consistent or to see whether all my thoughts hung together. Somebody has said that I have a great similarity to Hegel because I used the word "synthesis" and he speaks of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. But I must confess I have no idea of what Hegel says. Western philosophies are so mental and dry. They seem to lead to nothing, only mental gymnastics trying to find out things ...
... that he had derived his philosophical technique from Shankara, Sri Aurobindo said: That is not true. I have not read much of philosophy. It is like those who say that I am influenced by Hegel. Some even say that I am influenced by Nietzsche.. .The only two books that have influ- enced me are the Gita and the Upanishads. What I wrote was the work of intuition and inspiration... philosophy. S.K. Maitra finds in Sri Aurobindo's thought the "meeting of the East and the West", and he also makes interesting comparisons between Sri Aurobindo and Western thinkers like Plato, Plotinus, Hegel, Hartmann, Bergson, Whitehead and others. 64 Plato, like Sri Aurobindo, was a seer and a poet, but as a philosopher he was rather less consistent than the Indian thinker. Plotinus' double ...
... acting alone does not compromise. Mind takes up one thing – (one idea, or principles or anything like that) – and makes it absolute. Mind considers it as apart from and opposed to all other things. Hegel boasted that in Europe they had succeeded in separating reason from life and you see their philosophy – it has nothing to do with life; it is all mental gymnastics, it does not form part of life. ... acting alone does not compromise. Mind takes up one thing – (one idea, or principles or anything like that) – and makes it absolute. Mind considers it as apart from and opposed to all other things. Hegel boasted that in Europe they had succeeded in separating reason from life and you see their philosophy – it has nothing to do with life; it is all mental gymnastics, it does not form part of life. ...
... their approach towards the Law of Contradiction is similar. Hegel distinguishes between abstract understanding, which petrifies and thus misdescribes the ever changing "dialectical process" that is reality, and reason which apprehends its true nature. The supramental rationality of Sri Aurobindo is replaced here by the dialectical process. Hegel objected to the principle that A is A or, what for him amounts... amounts to the same thing that A cannot be at the same time A and not-A because no mind thinks or forms conceptions in accordance with this law, and... no existence of any kind conforms to it. 22 For Hegel contradiction is not a relation which holds merely between propositions but one that is also exemplified in the real world, for example in such phenomena as the polarity of magnetism, the antithesis ...
... Infinite and Godhead and underlying or overshadowing forces does not make a man a mystic. One would never think of applying such a term to Spinoza, Kant or Hegel: even Plato does not fit into the term though Pythagoras has a good claim to it. Hegel and other transcendental or idealistic philosophers were great intellects, not mystics. Shaw is a keen and forceful intellect (I cannot call him a great thinker... own day it is common, I believe, to refer to Bergson or Bradley as mystical. Regarded, looked upon by whom? It was not so in my time at least in Europe. Plato was never called a mystic then; Hegel was regarded as a transcendentalist but no mystic; if you had called Kant or Spinoza mystics people would have stared. To believe in the Absolute or something metaphysical or supraphysical does not ...
... any of the [? ]. I made in fact no study of metaphysics in my school and College days. What little I knew about philosophy I picked up desultorily in my general reading. I once read, not Hegel, but a small book on Hegel, but it left no impression on me. Later, in India, I read a book on Bergson, but that too ran off "like water from a duck's back". I remembered very little of what I had read and absorbed ...
... Subsequently, Western philosophy passed through various forms of rationalism enriched by contributions made by great philosophers like Spinoza (1632-1677), Leibnitz (1646-1716), Kant (1728-1804) and Hegel (1770-1831). In the meantime, an opposition against rationalism arose with the empiricism 1 of John Locke (1632- 1704). Locke attacked the theory of innate ideas and maintained that all ideas have... brilliance, Kant's work failed to convince rationalists and empiricists. The empiricists rejected Kantian epistemology 2 and tried to provide some practicable foundations to scientific knowledge. Hegel reconstructed rationalism on the foundations of monistic 3 ontology 4 and this was further developed by Bradley (1846-1924) in his book, Appearance and Reality. Although empiricism has not succeeded ...
... about things you know nothing about. Disciple : Hegel says : "being" is nothing : "becoming" is everything. Sri Aurobindo : How does he know ? All philosophy that is mental is of very little use. Disciple : Anybody can prove anything. Sri Aurobindo : That is why you have so many philosophies. Disciple : Hegel says : Being is "mere" existence. Sri Aurobindo ...
... types of perfection and its own absolutes. What intrusion of Overmind or Supermind could produce philosophies more perfect in themselves than the systems of Shankara or Plato or Plotinus or Spinoza or Hegel, poetry superior to Homer's, Shakespeare's, Dante's or Valmiki's, music more superb than the music of Beethoven or Bach, sculpture greater than the statues of Phidias and Michael Angelo, architecture ...
... force which has been so much disfigured in its objective action, was not in Germany's statesmen and soldiers—for the most part poor enough types of men—but came from her great philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, from her great thinker and poet Goethe, from her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, and from all in the German soul and temperament which they represented. A nation whose master ...
... life-force which goes on creating ever new forms. Loyd Morgan and Alexander developed the theory of emergent evolution, which provides for the emergence of a new quality in the process of evolution. Hegel developed the metaphysical theory of evolution and used the dialectic method to show how evolution of thought proceeded. Page 269 It is the uniqueness of Sri Aurobindo ...
... act.... It permeates the peripheral activities of the human nervous system, just as truly as the cortical functions." 15 Thus, reality being in its nature rational (l é reel est rationnel: Hegel) and rationality being the essence of mind the cognitive medium and, finally, symbolic transformation being the intrinsic process of this rationality, it follows ipso facto that all significant knowledge ...
... of a supra-cosmic Infinite who emanates or looses-forth the world out of His own being in whatever form He chooses. Of course Eckhart is not the sole thinker possible for comparison, Leibnitz, Hegel, Goethe, Nietzsche, Steiner are others who in various ways can provide a hold. Nor is Page 89 Heidegger so far astray as you believe from the Aurobindonian line. His Being and Time ...
... of the best of ancient wisdom and the brightest of modern knowledge. It wasn't that other great thinkers had not seen that evolution is basically Spirit-in-action (it was obvious to Schelling and Hegel, for example). Nor was Aurobindo necessarily the most enlightened spirit in modern India (many would point to the illustrious Sri Ramana Maharshi in that regard). But nobody combined both philosophical ...
... of vision got the eye to see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started ...
... Crashaw and a number of others who wrote poetry of a religious and spiritual character—metaphysical here means that (truth beyond the physical) and has nothing to do with the "metaphysics" of Kant or Hegel or Bradley. November 4, 1938 Please throw a glance over the names of the metaphysical poets—I couldn't make out one name which I have underlined. You seem to have got the names all ...
... in space and time, while in the deeper reality beyond space and time we may all be members of one body. In brief, modern physics is not altogether antagonistic to an objective idealism like that of Hegel." (p. 204)l A la bonne leure ! That runs close to Upanishadic knowledge. It means that the world is objective – it is not the figment of an individual observer; but it is not material either ...
... powerful ideas. In Indian philosophy I read the Upanishads and the Gita, etc. They are, of course, mainly results of spiritual experience. People think I must be immensely learned and know all about Hegel, Kant and the others. The fact is that I haven't even read them; and people don't know I have written everything from experience and spiritual perception. Modern philosophers wrap their ideas up in ...
... Life compromises between elements but mind acting on its own doesn't. Mind takes up one thing and makes it absolute, considers it as apart from and opposed to all other things and sets it above all. Hegel boasted that in Europe they had succeeded in separating reason from life—and you see what their philosophy has become. It has nothing to do with life; it is all intellectual gymnastics without forming ...
... is just their own philosophy. Nimbarkar's followers, the Ramanuja school, the adherents of Appaya Dikshita—all claim they have said the same thing. Somebody in Madras says my philosophy is just what Hegel has said and lastly I am told that it is the same as Shankara's philosophy! PURANI: Yes, somebody observed, "It is very fine and exactly what Shankara has said." Nagaraja of The Hindu says it is ...
... Haldar, Haridas, 218 Halliday, F. L., 308-09 Hamsa Sandesa, 97 Hansraj, Lala, 234 Hardinge, Lord, 369 Hartmann, Nicolai, 441 Hastings, Warren, 194 Hegel, 418,441 Heidegger, Martin, 416, 442,750 Heraclitus, 404, 51 1ff; review of R. D. Ranade's paper, 512; an Apollonian mystic and seer, 512; Being and Becoming, 512; Heraclitean and ...
... of a nation's or of a sub-nation's soul. Sri Aurobindo rightly points out that it was not her soldiers and empire-builders like Bismark and Moltke and Kaiser Wilhelm II but her thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Fichte and Nietzsche and her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, who represented Germany's great subjective force that has ushered in the modem renaissance. And yet it is the soldier and the racist ...
... of vision got the eye to see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not Page 192 fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the ...
... that was, all that is, all that will be is OM. With this pregnant confession of faith Hinduism begins its interpretation of the Universe. Metaphysical systems arise and metaphysical systems fall; Hegel disappears and Kant arrives; Pantheism, Theism, Atheism pursue their interminable round, and there is no finality. Then Science comes and declares the whole vanity, for all is physical and there is ...
... My father met Dr. Carl G. Jung in his university days. Dr. Jung was in India on a personal research project and he encouraged my father to go to Germany for doctoral studies. He did so and studied Hegel and Jung, lived near the birthplace of Kant and taught Sanskrit and Indian philosophy at the University of Koenigsburg. After receiving his doctoral degree he returned to India to continue teaching ...
... on in the very womb of Matter? the occultist who by his magic spell shall build the body of God with the nerve-centres of his own person? "Serene as the Antarctic silence," who is it that burns in Hegel on his death-bed? In the non-violent march of the "naked fakir" or the Blitzkrieg of the Titan, is it the same Purusha strident like a fire and roaring in the loudness of a colossus of might? When was ...
... advance.” 19 Readers knowledgeable about the Hegelian view of history will discern in these words of Sri Aurobindo a familiar echo, although Sri Aurobindo’s interpretation is much less dogmatic. Hegel sees history as one great curve, one progressively dialectial act of the Spirit; Sri Aurobindo, in his wider view (as we have seen in the first chapter), allows for brilliant progressions as well as ...
... … The real source of this great subjective force which has been so much disfigured in its objective action, was not in Germany’s statesman and soldiers … but came from her great philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, from her great poet and thinker Goethe, from her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, and from all in the German soul and temperament which they represented. A nation whose master ...
... writings are positively loaded with references to the Vedas, the Upanishads, Taoism (Bohr made the yin-yang symbol part of his family crest), Buddhism, Pythagoras, Plato, Plotinus, Berkeley, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Kant, virtually the entire pantheon of perennial philosophers.” 35 Consequently Wilber divides the 20th century physicists into two batches: the open-minded “mystics” including all those named ...
... the mysterious gold of this great bloom, an intense loveliness and a creative artistry are the bloomed greatness of this gold that is a mystery. The Wisdom on the summits of being has all Plato and Hegel in it, every analytic acuteness, every synthetic sweep those master-philosophers possessed, but it has also a direct Seerhood far beyond their brains: it is free from the obscurities of the time-process ...
... thought one will be aware of the inner restructuring with greater clarity, but even otherwise invisible hands will go on raising up in your depths a more Aurobindonian You. For here is not a Spinoza or Hegel challenging you to trace the edifice of his speculative system: here is God's grace seeking to impress on the deepest part of your mind the shape of the Page 191 cosmic vision projected ...
... got the eye to see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to under stand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started ...
... manuscript page. Its place of insertion was not marked: One would sometimes almost think that this upheaval of thought anticipated at once Plato & Empedocles, Luther, Erasmus and Melanchthon, Kant, Hegel & Berkeley, Hume, Haeckel & Huxley—that we have at one fell blast Graeco-Roman philosophy, Protestant Reformation & modern rationalistic tendency anticipated by the single movement from Janaka to Buddha ...
... of tending as in Europe to ignore or combat religion, has always been itself deeply religious. In Europe Buddha and Shankara would have become the heads of metaphysical schools & ranked with Kant or Hegel or Nietzsche 1 as strong intellectual influences; in India they became, inevitably, the founders of great religious sects, immense moral & spiritual forces;—inevitably because Europe has made thought ...
... them, which, as Europeans have noted with an admiring or patronising wonder and Indians with a sort of obsequious pride, are on a level or almost on a level with the metaphysical ideas of Kant and Hegel! Apart, even, from these baser concessions of the subjugated Indian mind, it has been with a feeling of sincere relief and consolation that truly spiritual Indians, distressed by the clamorous pressure ...
... the intellect alone. If the philosopher's realisation is poor and fragmentary, the philosophy will seem narrow in spite of the intellect being gigantic. In some respects Plato, Spinoza and Hegel seem very narrow, they do not cover our full sense of things: the cause is that each of them elaborated in terms of the intellect a one-sided intuition of a limited set of intuitions. The elaboration ...
... the mysterious gold of this great gloom, an intense loveliness and a creative artistry are the bloomed greatness of this gold that is a mystery. The Wisdom on the summits of being has all Plato and Hegel in it, every analytic acuteness, every synthetic sweep those master-philosophers possessed, but it has also a direct Seerhood far beyond their brains: it is free from the obscurities of the time-process ...
... do not care) would not carry me one step; it would certainly not be divine. It is quite another thing that enables me to walk unweeping and unlamenting towards the goal." 3 When Nair brings in Hegel and connects him with Sri Aurobindo's "vision of History" and talks of Hegel's "tidy schema, Spirit fulfilling its schedule of progress with no problem whatever", he forgets one central point: whoever ...
... subliminal self acts—without knowledge. Sri Aurobindo started taking his short walk in the room. When the walk was finished, Purani took up the thread of a past conversation. PURANI:: Between Hegel and Kant, poor Nirodbaran's question was lost. SRI AUROBINDO: What was it? PURANI: Nirodbaran says that, just like reasonings, experiences differ and come to different conclusions. How then can ...
... Greece, 16, 25, 119, 159, 205-6, 211,2H, 238-41, 244-6 HADAMARD, PROF., 302 Haeckel, 140 Hamlet, 186-90 Harappa,238,243 Heard, Gerald, 260 Hegel, 318 Heine, 88 Henry, the Great, 90 Hera, 220 Heraclitus, 150,211,329 Hennes, 220 Hibbert Journal, the, 251 Himalayas, the, 54, 100 ...
... and Kant have also put forward theistic arguments. Spinoza formulated the Ontological Argument within the system of his own metaphysics. After Kant had apparently refuted the ontological argument, Hegel (1770-1831 C. E.) reestablished it within the framework of his own metaphysical system. However, Kant's criticism of the Ontological Argument came to be reformulated in a new way by Bertrand Russell ...
... the result. Well?' In his characteristic way, he parried my question with one of his own: 'How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started ...
... in space and time, while in the deeper reality beyond space and time we may all be members of one body. In brief, modern physics is not altogether antagonistic to an objective idealism like that of Hegel." (p. 204) 1 A la bonne heure! That runs close to Upanishadic knowledge. It means that the world is objective—it is not the figment of an individual observer; but it is not material either, ...
... & Semele", 180n., 183n Greece, 73, 193-4, 196n., 281 Gupta, Atul, 234 Page 372 HALL, JOHN, 68n -"To His Tutor", 68n Hamlet, 185 Hardy, Thomas, 71, 88 Hegel, 246 Hilton, Walter, 114 -The Scale if Perfection, 115 Himalayas, the, 151 Hinduism, 242, 276-8, 280 Hitler, 274 Hobbes, 108 Homer, 52, 73, 83, 85-6, 93, 147, 176 Horace, 89 ...
... means the contrary of these things-the two terms used by philosophy are only the logical formulation of an essentially aesthetic value. Take, for example, the philosophical system of Kant or of Hegel or of our own Shankara. What a beautiful edifice of thought each one has reared! How cogent and compact, organised and poised and finely modelled! Shankara's reminds me of a tower, strong and slender ...
... that the Upanishad held any view contrary to that of the Veda or ever contradicted it. The Upanishad is the culmination of or a complement to the Veda. Since the advent of the dialectic philosopher Hegel it has become a fashion among Western scholars to find an antithesis in every field of historical truth. From their own history they come to learn that Christianity arose as a revolt against the idolatry ...
... means the contrary of these things—the two terms used by philosophy are only the logical formulation of an essentially aesthetic value. Take, for example, the philosophical system of Kant or of Hegel or of our own Shankara. What a beautiful edifice of thought each one has reared! How cogent and compact, organised and poised and finely modelled! Shankara's reminds me of a tower, strong and slender ...
... Gokhale,G.K.10 Gupta, Nolini Kanta 20 Gurdjieff34,35 Haas, William S. 307,316 Hakim, Khalifa A 33 Hardy, Thomas 251,377 Hartmann 33,34 Hegel 30,33 Highet, Gilbert 383,384,411,412,414 Hodgson, Ralph 367 Homer 53-55,265,267,319,320,370,381, 383,384,387,398,399,401 Hopkins, G.M. 75,98,314,368,455 ...
... object for which the world was created. ii. He says that I derived my technique from Shanker. That is not true. I have not read much of philosophy. It is like those who say that I am influenced by Hegel. Some even say that I am influenced by Neitzsche because I quoted his sentence : "You can become yourself by exceeding yourself". The only two books that have influenced me are the Gita and the ...
... that the divine providence is palpably present. God has come to meet us, it is God’s will that acts in world history. Being one with our history means being one with God.” Which goes to show that Hegel’s way of seeing things was very much alive. “The German people are frequently mentioned as the instrument of God”, writes Fischer. “One often reads: we believe in the task our people have to accomplish ...
... The need, in Teilhardism, to accord Christian theology "literally", non-metaphorically, with what the latter has most feared in philosophies of the World-Soul like Bruno's and Spinoza's and Hegel's, is borne in upon us even by the fact that not only in Teilhard's stories but also in his direct utterances we have time and again the use of the terms "pantheistic", "pantheist" and "pantheism" as ...
... position of being marooned in a kingdom which is not, after all, his own — a kingdom whose ways are not man's ways and whose thoughts, if it 3. Karl Marx, Introduction to a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy, quoted by Grisson and G. Smith, op. cit.. Page 185 has any thoughts, are not man's thoughts. For man, the world into which he is born without his leave being asked ...
... primitive moss fully alive in the sunlight. What has the power of unsealing this Matter, of cleansing it? Obviously not what we think of it, neither the superphenomenologies of the mind from the little Hegels of the Quaternary, nor even all our religious or Marxist virtues.... There must be something else. It is this "something-else" that is of interest to us. What are the "virtues" that will help make ...
... of 1989 within the framework of the present chapter: “Yet when all this has been said, no one in Prague could resist the feeling that there must also be an additional, supra-rational cause at work. Hegel’s Weltgeist, said some. [Saint] Agnes of Bohemia, said others. ‘The whole world is moving from dictatorship to democracy’, said a third … How you describe the supra-rational agency is a matter of personal ...
... and what the results of its full descent into our earth-existence will be.... There is a mighty intellect in The Life Divine which we at once feel to be no whit less than Plato's or Spinoza's or Hegel's, but none of these giants was a full-fledged Yogi. Page 418 Sri Aurobindo's intellect is an instrument used by a spiritual realisation: not one sentence anywhere is inspired by the ...
... on on which is founded all sublimity of creation"; at the same time it would embrace "language of image and symbol" disposing of Yeats's "Asiatic vague immensities". It would also take care of Hegel's "concrete universals" that are otherwise too abstract or philosophic. Spiritual experience, as vast as the universe and as detailed as counting each star with its brightness in countless galaxies ...
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