Lamprecht : Karl Gottfried (1856-1915), German historian, the first to put forward a psychological theory of history & social development which departed from Europe’s materialistic-economic conception of history & social development dominated by the ideas of its scientific materialism, esp. Marx’s socio-historical materialism. But Lamprecht’s theory was too rigid in its analysis & classification of social phenomena to explain the inner meaning of the phases, the necessity of their succession, their term, & the end to which they drive, thus failing to illumine “the thickly veiled secret of our historical evolution”. [Vide “Social Progress & stages of Social Evolution”, Kishore Gandhi, Mother India, Dec., 2015, pp.973-74]
... Aurobindo proposes another cycle of human evolution from the Satya to the Kala Yuga and beyond. The idea came to him when reading Karl Lamprecht (1856-1915), “one of the first scholars to develop a systematic theory of psychological factors in history”. Lamprecht “supposed that human society progresses through certain distinct psychological stages which he terms respectively symbolic, typal and c ...
... produced results upon earth” 965, and referred to Nietzsche throughout his oeuvre. It is a sign of his erudition (and excellent memory) that he used an idea of Karl Lamprecht as the starting point of The Human Cycle. Lamprecht (1856-1915) was a famous (Pan-)German historian, professor of history at Bonn and Leipzig, author of a Deutsche Geschichte (history of Germany) in twelve volumes and adviser ...
... Pan-Germans. They never numbered more than four thousand, but they were a kind of nationalist freemasonry to which only the most influential and high-ranked personalities had access. The historian Karl Lamprecht, advisor to Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg, was a Pan-German, as were the sociologist Max Weber, still studied to today, Gustav Stresemann, the future foreign minister, Ludwig Schemann, publisher of ...
... Social Development between August 1916 and July 1918. Sri Aurobindo began with a discussion of the psychological theory of social and political development put forward by the German historian Karl Lamprecht (1856 - 1915), about which he had read in an article published in the May/June 1916 issue of the Hindustan Review . Retaining some of Lamprecht's terminology, he went on to develop his own theory ...
... formulated a suggestive and illuminating truth, and it is worth while following up some of the suggestions it opens out in the light especially of Eastern thought and experience. The theorist, Lamprecht, basing himself on European and particularly on German history, supposed that human society progresses through certain distinct psychological stages which he terms respectively symbolic, typal and ...
... historical, modern and contemporary evolution of humankind, and merits a prominent place amongst the writings on sociology and historical philosophy. Taking the theory of the German historian Karl Lamprecht (1856-1915) as his point of departure, Sri Aurobindo divides the curve of human evolution in a symbolical, a typal 94 , a conventional and an individualistic age, and to this he adds a future subjective ...
... thought and original tendencies good and bad, beneficent and disastrous, a first psychological theory of history was conceived and presented by an original intelligence.... The theorist, Lamprecht, basing himself on European and particularly on German history, supposed that human society progresses through certain distinct psychological stages which he terms respectively symbolic, typal and ...
... the Higher Mind, 143-46 integral, 2, 197 and thought, 147 Kuhn, Thomas S., 316 Lajoie, Denise H., 390 Page 422 Lama Govinda, 321 Lamprecht, Karl G., 250 Lao Tse, 376 Laya (laya), 227, 367, 373, 380 Liberation, 367, 383-84, 394 and transformation, 167-69, 394 See also Moksha; Mukti Life, 62, 377 ...
... sufficient in the main for the "working out and elucidation" of the theory of the social cycle set forth in the book. As a convenient starting-point, Sri Aurobindo takes up the German theorist Lamprecht's idea that human society progresses through certain distinct stages - symbolic, typal, conventional, individualist and subjective - that are "a sort of psychological cycle through which a nation or ...
... 695 Hour of God, The, 209 House of Brut, The, 120, 152, 153-54 Human Cycle, The, 404, 448, 470ff; revised version of 'The psychology of Social Development', 472; Lamprecht's psychological cycle, 472; theories of Frazer, Spengler, Toynbee, 472; Vedic or 'Symbolic' Age, 473; a predominantly spiritual age, 473; 'symbol' to 'type', 473; 'typal' to 'conventional', a dead ...
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