... matter, in psycho-social evolution it depends on the self-reproduction of mind. Let us now close this section with the following pregnant words of Prof. Huxley: "Evolution can be envisaged as a progressive realisation of intrinsic possibilities. Man is the latest dominant type in biological evolution, and the first (and up till now the only) dominant type in psycho-social evolution. His destiny is... enabling it to realize new and higher possibilities. Biological evolution, though it often displays direction, is directed from behind, by the blind and automatic force of natural selection: psycho-social evolution can be, to a lesser or greater extent, directed from in front, by the anticipatory force of conscious purpose." 26 The Flute-Call of the Future But what should be the exact ...
... or subordinated to himself all the other powers of the social life, there at that point of his highest success his failure begins; the monarchical system has fulfilled its positive part in the social evolution and all that is left to it is either to hold the State together until it has transformed itself or else to provoke by oppression the movement towards the sovereignty of the people. Page 455... government, defects the increasing perception of which enters largely into the present-day dissatisfaction with parliamentary systems. Even a perfect democracy is not likely to be the last stage of social evolution, but it is still the necessary broad standing-ground upon which the self-consciousness of the social being can come Page 456 to its own. 1 Democracy and Socialism are, as we have... many follies of the human mind. Yet the attempt in itself and apart from its false justifications and practical failure was inevitable, fruitful and a necessary step Page 458 in social evolution. It was inevitable because this transitional instrument represented the first idea of the human reason and will seizing on the group-life to fashion, mould and arrange it according to its own ...
... can be, is the task that is set for the mental being. Social and Political Thought, pp. 66-67 (c) The Three Stages of Social Evolution — Infrarational, Rational, Suprarational ...there are necessarily three stages of the social evolution or, generally, of the human evolution in both individual and society. Our evolution starts with an infrarational stage in which men have... armoured efficiency which the critical and constructive, the scientific reason used to the fullest degree offers as its reward and consequence. Another and greater outcome of this stage of social evolution is the emergence of high and luminous ideals which promise to raise man beyond the limits of the vital being, beyond his first social, economic and political needs and desires and out of their ...
... strife. "A deeper brotherhood, a yet unfound law of love," says Sri Aurobindo, "is the only sure foundation possible for a perfect social evolution, no other can replace it." 28 Thus, although Marx and Lenin have been significant milestones in the history of social evolution, the future must go beyond Marx, and beyond Lenin, and beyond Mao, and ordain and carry out a spiritual revolution that may crack... The Life Divine is the projection of Sri Aurobindo's theory of the 'spiritual evolution', from the Ignorance to the Knowledge; The Human Cycle is likewise the projection of his theory of 'social evolution', from the 'symbolic' to the 'psychological' stage. Although reprinted over thirty years after its serialisation in the Arya, the book was not subjected to any drastic revision. Occasional references ...
... and in many aspects. In such circumstances, though a full advance may possibly not be made, a great step forward can be predicted. We have seen that there are necessarily three stages of the social evolution or, generally, of the human evolution in both individual and society. Our evolution starts with an infrarational stage in which men have not yet learned to refer their life and action in its ... a new wave arrives in time to save and regenerate. Finally, she reaches the point when, all immediate danger of relapse overcome, she can proceed to her next decisive advance in the cycle of social evolution. This must take the form of an attempt to universalise first of all the habit of reason and the application of the intelligence Page 190 and intelligent will to life. Thus is instituted ...
... whole sociological problem involving difficulties of ethics, legislation and politics which after so many thousands of years mankind has not solved to its permanent satisfaction. Chapter III. Social Evolution. In the early stages of the sub-tamasic state the question was not so acute, for differentiation in the society was not at first very complex; it proceeded upon broad lines, and as soon as... with a high spiritual and intellectual ideal applied to life. And until sattwa is fully evolved, the community will try to preserve all the useful forces and institutions gathered by the past social evolution, neither destroying them nor leaving them intact, but harmonising and humanising them by the infusion of a higher ideal and vivifying them from time to time by a fresh review in the light of new ...
... Evolution, 77-78 aided by pressure of supraphysical planes, 5 of consciousness, 28, 30 Page 421 dynamics of, 393-96 process of, 396-97 See also Social evolution Faith, and belief, 199-200 "blind faith", 203 central, 205 and doubt, 201 and experience, 202 and knowledge, 203-04 Frager, R., 390 Free will... consciousness in, 232-33, 238 of experiences, 232 Sleep-self, 23, 75 Sleep-State (su ṣ upti), 213, 206-09, 215,216 Soul-personality, see Psychic being Social evolution, psychological stages of, 250-55 subjective (spiritual) age, 285-87 three stages of, 262-270 Sorley, Professor, 185, 186 Soul, 14, 20, 85-95, 97, 98, 99, ...
... varied and positive spiritual knowledge,—that wider Hinduism which is not a dogma or combination of dogmas but a law of life, which is not a social framework but the spirit of a past and future social evolution, which rejects nothing but insists on testing and experiencing everything and when tested and experienced turning it to the soul's uses, in this Hinduism we find the basis of the future world-religion ...
... effort of Life. In later times when there was a still stronger secular tendency of intellectual culture, there came in an immense development of the mundane intelligence, an opulent political and social evolution, an emphatic stressing of aesthetic, sensuous and hedonistic experience. But this effort too always strove to keep itself within the ancient frame and not to lose the special stamp of the Indian ...
... the classes, but exercising an authority by his spiritual personality over all, revered and consulted by the king of whom he was sometimes the religious preceptor and in the then fluid state of social evolution able alone to exercise an important role in evolving new basic ideas and effecting direct and immediate changes of the socio-religious ideas and customs of the people. It was a marked feature ...
... and armoured efficiency which the critical and constructive, the scientific reason used to the fullest degree offers as its reward and consequence. Another and greater outcome of this stage of social evolution is the emergence of high and luminous ideals which promise to raise man beyond the limits of the vital being, beyond his first social, economic and political needs and desires and out of their ...
... committees’: ‘Every person has full freedom.’ As to the social organization, she foresaw a ‘divine anarchy.’ This, again, is a concept we find in Sri Aurobindo; he saw it as the final aim of the social evolution, when all individuals in the Unity-Consciousness will no longer be governed by a social authority but directly by the Godhead, in a concrete relation of unity with all others in divine Love. Any ...
... moulding of the future. Page 25 × We already see a violent though incomplete beginning of this line of social evolution in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia. The trend is for more and more nations to accept this beginning of a new order, and the resistance of the old order is more passive than active—it ...
... illumine the vital nature of man and impose harmony on its self-seekings, antagonisms and discords. A deeper brotherhood, a yet unfound law of love is the only sure foundation possible for a perfect social evolution, no other can replace it. But this brotherhood and love will not proceed by the vital instincts or the reason where they can be met, baffled or deflected by opposite reasonings and other discordant ...
... relation and synthesis of their potentialities which is represented in an increasing harmony and combination of realised powers in the elastic potentiality of human life. Page 420 The social evolution of the human race is necessarily a development of the relations between three constant factors, individuals, communities of various sorts and mankind. Each seeks its own fulfilment and satisfaction ...
... the Age of Louis XIV for example, in which what predominated was the sense of artistic creation, and this sense seems to have given a certain perception of beauty at that moment; but afterwards social evolution brought in other needs and other ideas, and now, for more than a century it is commercialism which is uppermost in the world, and there is nothing more in contradiction with art than commerce ...
... government, defects the increasing perception of which enters largely into the present-day dissatisfaction with parliamentary systems. Even a perfect democracy is not likely to be the last stage of social evolution, but it is still the necessary broad standing-ground upon which the self-consciousness of the social being can come to its own." "It does not follow that a true democracy must necessarily ...
... the vital nature of man and impose harmony on its self-seekings, antagonisms and discords. A deeper brotherhood, a yet unfounded law of love is the only sure foundation possible for a perfect social evolution, no other can replace it. But this brotherhood and love will not proceed by the vital instincts or the reason.... Nor will it found itself in the natural heart of man where there are plenty ...
... the operation of the four functions among four clearly marked classes. I must add that this system was not peculiar to India; with certain differences, it was a dominating feature of a stage of social evolution in other ancient or medieval societies also. "It must also be remarked that the four functions are still inherent in the life of all normal communities, although the class divisions no longer ...
... The age of Louis XIV, for example, was an age dominated by the sense of artistic creation and it represented the peak of a certain type of the truly beautiful in art and life. In the course of social evolution other ideas, other needs appeared—those of a commercial age. So the curve took a downward course. For there is nothing so antagonistic to art as commerce. For the association of commerce with ...
... thing is certain. Those of us who are 60 or 70 years old have witnessed many changes since childhood, and we know that the changes are pressing on more and more, whether in science, technology, social evolution, political affairs at home or abroad. The whole world seems to be moving faster and faster. It is likely that this tempo will still accelerate, so that it will become increasingly difficult to ...
... and positive spiritual knowledge, - that wider Hinduism which is not a dogma or combination of dogmas but a law of life, which is not a social framework but the spirit of a past and future social evolution, which rejects nothing but insists on testing and experiencing everything and when tested and experienced, turning it to the soul's uses, in this Hinduism we find the basis of the future wo ...
... society on the partition of these four functions among four clearly marked classes. This system was not peculiar to India, but was with certain differences the dominating feature of a stage of social evolution in other ancient or mediaeval societies. The four functions are still inherent in the life of all normal communities, but the clear divisions no longer exist anywhere. The old system everywhere ...
... errors to which the subjective trend may be liable are as great as its possibilities and may well lead to capital disasters. This distinction must be clearly grasped if the road of this stage of social evolution is to be made safe for the human race. Page 43 ...
... into any general external action before it has found itself, may have time and freedom to evolve, to seek out its own truth, its own lines and so become ready to take up the spiral of the human social evolution where the curve of the Age of Reason naturally ends by its own normal evolution and make ready the ways of a deeper spirit. Page 207 × ...
... the serious attention of Sri Aurobindo in The Future Poetry and his remarks on this topic are also to be found in The Secret Splendour. The problem simply is that at this turn of our social evolution, the intellect of man, despite all its flaws, has become the governing principle of life, and paradoxically managed to cripple it. Discarding this obsession with the Mind, what D.H. Lawrence ...
... are all examples of an increase of order and a decrease of entropy.” 18 “The famous law of increase of entropy describes the world as evolving from order to disorder; still, biological or social evolution shows us the complex emerging from the simple. How is this possible? How can structure arise from disorder? … There is an obvious contradiction between the static view of dynamics and the evolutionary ...
... slightest interest - unless they are in Cimmerian darkness. Perhaps they are - and that is what you mean when you say they are still in what Sri Aurobindo designates as the "conventional" stage of social evolution. I can see that the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are proving a great standby in the sort of world you are living in. As to your question about the rending of the veil I can't say ...
... fourfold order of the society was peculiar to India, although its cultural, ethical and spiritual character was unique. The fourfold order came to be evolved at a certain stage of social Page 197 evolution in other ancient and medieval societies with certain differences. It may also be noted that the old system everywhere broke down and gave place to a more fluid order. In India, this ...
... transmitted his passionate curiosity to her. But that world was not enough for impetuous Manya; she plunged eagerly into other sections of the world's knowledge; she grasped at Auguste Comte and social evolution, she dreamed no longer of mathematics and chemistry alone, but wished to reform the established order and enlighten the masses of the people. Forty years later, Maria would remember ...
... into any general external action before it has found itself, may have time and freedom to evolve, to seek out its own truth, its own lines and so become ready to take up the spiral of the human social evolution where the curve of the Age of Reason naturally ends by its own normal evolution and make ready the ways of a deeper spirit." Page 20 ...
... age of Louis XIV, for example, was an age dominated by the sense of artistic creation and it represented the peak of a certain type of the truly beautiful in art and life. In the course of social evolution other ideas, other needs appeared – those of a commercial age. So the curve took a downward course. For there is nothing so antagonistic to art as commerce. For the association of commerce with ...
... authority by his spiritual personality over the rest, revered and consulted by the king, Page 99 of whom he was sometimes the religious preceptor, who was "in the then fluid state of social evolution able alone to exercise an important role in evolving new basic ideas and effecting direct and immediate changes of the socio-religious ideas and customs of the people." It was neither the king ...
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