Socrates : (c. 470-399 BC), first of the great trio of ancient Greeks, the other two being Plato & Aristotle. He wrote nothing himself. His life & teachings were recorded by his disciple Plato & Xenophon. He is best remembered for his “Know Thyself”.
... Socrates Socrates Introduction Who was Socrates? A stout man with a flat face, broad nose, thick lips, heavy beard, shabby clothes and an unduly large paunch, which he hoped to reduce by dancing this is how Socrates has been described. Not a very flattering description of a man commonly considered the founder of Western philosophy. Although... ultimately defeated. Thus, Socrates knew both the splendour of the Periclean age and the chaos of war - a war which brought not only material hardship but, even more crucial for Socrates, a confusion in the sciences and an erosion of moral values. Life of Socrates According to the accounts of Plato and Xenophon, 19 the first forty years of the life of Socrates were nurtured by the... The intellectual truth thus revealed, says Socrates, is only a very imperfect image of the Truth, which is the Divineʼs; compared to Godʼs, man's knowledge is mere ignorance. When the oracle of Apollo and Delphi48 called Socrates the wisest of living men, Socrates set out to disprove that statement, convinced that he really knew nothing. In the end, Socrates discovered that his so-called "wisdomˮ lay ...
... Certainly SOCRATES: But does it contain these four squares, each equal to the original four- foot one? {Socrates has drawn in the lines CM, CN to complete the squares that he wishes to point out.) BOY: Yes. SOCRATES: How big is it then? Won't it be four times as big? BOY: Of course. SOCRATES: And is four times the same as twice? BOY: Of course not. SOCRATES; So doubling... BOY: Yes. SOCRATES: Then here we have four equal squares? BOY: Yes. SOCRATES: And how many times the size of the first square is the whole? BOY: Four times. SOCRATES: And we want one double the size. You remember? BOY: Yes. SOCRATES: Now does this line going from comer to comer cut each of these squares in half? BOY: Yes. SOCRATES: And these are four equal... BOY: They are. SOCRATES: Now think. How big is this area? BOY: I don't understand. SOCRATES: Here are four squares. Has not each line cut off the inner half of each of them? BOY: Yes. SOCRATES: And how many such halves are there in this figure? [BEHD.] BOY: Four. SOCRATES: And how many in this one? [ABCD.] BOY: Two. SOCRATES: And what is the relation ...
... at Delphi 1 called Socrates the wisest of living men, Socrates set out to disprove that statement, convinced that he really knew nothing. In the end, Socrates discovered that his so-called "wisdom " lay in the simple fact that he was conscious of his own ignorance: to know that you do not know is the first step towards knowing yourself. When, at the age of seventy, Socrates was tried in the court... long Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) in which Athens was ultimately defeated. Thus, Socrates knew both the splendour of the Periclean age and the chaos of war — a war which brought not only material hardship but, even more crucial for Socrates, a confusion in the sciences and an erosion of moral values. Socrates taught that the great problem of any human being lies in the question of how to live... physical enjoyments. The history of philosophy speaks of pre- and post-Socratic thinkers. Illustrating Socrates ' impact on the course of Western philosophy and science prior to Socrates, the intuitive visions of the Orphic mysteries, 2 had a decisive influence on Greek thought. Socrates and his followers, Plato and Aristotle, established a rational and intellectual approach towards life, an approach ...
... up a prayer to the sun, and went his way. At another time, Socrates and his friend Aristodemus went together to a banquet, but on the way Socrates went into a trance and dropped behind. When Aristodemus arrived at the feast, he was asked by the host: "What have you done with Socrates?" Aristodemus was astonished to find that Socrates was not with him. In those days rich people used to have slaves... Socrates Plato among his students, Pompeian mosaic, National Museum, Naples Appendix I A Synoptic Essay on Socrates It (the true soul) is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. — Sri Aurobindo O ne of the greatest of the... stopping anywhere and losing himself without any reason." Socrates came when the feast was half over. Socrates was a great seeker of truth and he had developed a method of enquiry, which has come to be known as the Socratic method. This method, which is also called the dialectic, consists of arriving at conclusions by question and answer. Socrates used to begin an enquiry by saying that he knew nothing ...
... a personal grudge against Socrates, was the leader of the prosecution; Anytus, an s honest and influential democrat who hated the Sophists and per;, haps regarded Socrates as one of them, gave it weight and an air of respectability; Lycon was a rhetorician and contributed eloquence.. 3 a playwright: the comic poet, Aristophanes, burlesqued Socrates in his comedy The Clouds... reference to Socrates' "warning voice". 21 bastard children: the heroes and demigods of mythology. 22 son of Thetis: Achilles. The passage, which Socrates partly paraphrases and partly quotes, is Iliad XViii. 94-106. 23 Potidaea in Chalcidice revolted from Athens in 432 and was reduced two years later. In the preliminary fighting Socrates saved the... eye-witness, the events and discussions of the last day in Socrates' life, and the manner of his death. 30 Crito: Socrates' closest friend, who gives his name to the dialogue that comes immediately after Apology, taking place in the State Page 84 Greek warship prison at Athens, where Socrates stayed for one month before his execution. 31 ...
... time of Socrates there was no public prosecutor; the citizens could accuse offenders in a public place and issue summons to appear in court before the legal magistrate. Melitus delivered an oral summons to Socrates in the presence of witnesses, which required him to appear before the legal magistrate in the Royal Stoa, a building in the city center. The charge made by Melitus against Socrates was... and death. In case of Socrates, the accusers proposed the death penalty by hemlock Page 140 poisoning and Socrates suggested, instead of a punishment, a reward of free meals at the city center or at the most, a token fine of one mina of silver. This time however 360 jurors voted for the death penalty and 180 voted against it a larger margin voted against Socrates than while convicting... inflamed the already resentful citizens of Athens further against Socrates and put the final stamp of conviction that his teachings were, indeed, a bad influence upon the youth of Athens. It "was also held against him that when Critias asked Socrates to bring before him Leon of Salamis so that he could be executed, although Socrates declined to carry out such a task as it was against his duty towards ...
... Socrates The Death of Socrates by French painter Jean-Louis David (1748-1825) Phaedo Plato PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: PHAEDO: who is the narrator of the Dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius. ECHECRATES SOCRATES APOLLODORUS SIMMIAS CEBES CRITO ATTENDANT OF THE PRISON SCENE: The Prison of Socrates PLACE OF... Eleven,' he said, 'are now with Socrates; they are taking off his chains, and giving orders that he is to die to-day.' He soon returned and said that we might come in. On entering we found Socrates just released from chains, and Xanthippe, whom you know, sitting by him, and holding his child in her arms. When she saw us she uttered a cry and said, as women will: 'O Socrates, this is the last time that... that either you will converse with your friends, or they with you.' Socrates , turned to Crito and said: 'Crito, let some one take her home.' Some of Crito's people accordingly led her away, crying out and beating herself. And when she was gone, Socrates, sitting up on the couch, bent and rubbed his leg, saying, as he was rubbing: — How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related ...
... the disaster in a single trial. Socrates alone opposes the decision to put the convicted generals to death as he considered it unconstitutional, but they are executed anyway. Alcibiades is exiled. 404 BC — Athens falls to Sparta; the harsh, oligarchic Rule of the Thirty Tyrants led by Critias, a former pupil of Socrates, is imposed. Socrates and four others are ordered to arrest... Peace" is signed between Sparta and Athens. 432 BC — Socrates participates in the battle of Potidaea in which he saves the life of Alcibiades, a former student who would later become known for his deceit and treason. 431 BC — Peloponnesian War begins between Sparta and Athens. Socrates serves as a hoplite (a heavy infantryman armed with a shield, a spear, and... —Death of Plato. 345 BC — The earliest recorded non-Platonic and non-Xenophonic reference to the trial of Socrates is made by Aeschines, an Athenian statesman and orator, in a prosecution. In it, he says to the jury "....put Socrates, the sophist, to death...because he was shown to have been the teacher of Critias, one of the Thirty who put down democracy." ...
... observe that your favourite is Socrates rather than Plato. May I point out that I spoke of Plato's Socratic dialogues? It is the Plato permeated by and suffused with Socrates that has been gloriously close to my mind and heart ever since my school-days. There is also the question: "Can we separate Socrates from the young Plato?" Do we know any substantial Socrates apart from those early dialogues... clear-cut thought run in hidden harmony with the former's spontaneous divinations. Not only Socrates the master-dialectician but also Socrates the revealer of mysteries mounting from visible beauty to the ultimate ineffable Loveliness present to the high-uplifted contemplative consciousness and also the Socrates who built up before the Athenian judges the amazing "Apologia" for his right to die for... philosopher and the archetypal moralist? We have to speak of the Platonic Socrates no less than of the Socratic Plato. Thus, in the final perspective, you and I may be seen as standing together and when you by way of praise compare my writings to Plato's you really mean the writings of Plato as the door through which Socrates in all his inspired unity and diversity walks out into our midst as he did ...
... at her husband. She made such a noise that Socrates went downstairs and out of the house and sat exhausted at his own doorstep. Just then Xanthippe emptied a bucket of dirty water over his head from the first-floor window. Socrates took the compulsory shower-bath quietly. A passerby who witnessed the ablution asked him: "Don't you feel annoyed?" Socrates replied: "Friend, we must accept Nature's phenomena... behind of their way with words and ideas. Socrates was the one who perhaps talked the most and his talk has also influenced the thought of Europe more than any other man's. It is embalmed for all time in the Dialogues of Plato. About the contents of these Dialogues it has been remarked that all subsequent philosophy is only a number of footnotes to what Socrates said. About their form, their style,... chap's own counter. Socrates was just the opposite. He thought irritability the complete negation of the Page 225 philosophic mood. The philosopher must be master of his nerves: circumstances belonging to the shadowy phenomenal world should never affect the poised intellect contemplating the Eternal Ideas of a world beyond time and space and mutability. Socrates was perhaps the most ...
... he could collaborate with neither democrats nor oligarchs. In 399 BC he was especially sickened by the execution of his friend and teacher, Socrates. After this event, Plato went on a series of travels, as he reflected on the life and teachings of Socrates. He was now brought to his mission of seeking a cure for society's ills not in politics but in philosophy, and he arrived at his fundamental... phenomena of becoming which are real-unreal and matters of opinion, while the latter are essences of real being, matters of knowledge. Describing the process of moving from ignorance to knowledge, Socrates, who, in Plato's dialogues, voices philosophy, says: "... This organ of knowledge must be turned around from the world of becoming together with the entire soul, like the scene-shifting periactus... precision. Plato has just spoken of the prisoners "getting their hands" on their returned fellow and killing him. How could they do that if fettered as described at the opening of the simile? But Socrates was executed, so of course they must. This translation assumes the following main correspondences: Tied prisoner in the cave Illusion Freed prisoner in the cave Belief ...
... vital and physical nature. In the case of Socrates the will is so far free that it stands above the play of these forces and he determines by his mental idea and resolve what he shall or shall not do. The question remains whether the will of Socrates is only free in this sense, itself being actually determined by something larger than the mentality of Socrates, something of which it is the instrument... and both in the strong-willed Socrates and in the weak willed slave of vital impulse, the action and its results would be determined by the assent or refusal of the Purusha. In the latter the Purusha gives its assent to and undergoes the play of the forces of Nature, the habit of the vital impulse, through a vital submission while the mind looks on helpless. In Socrates the Purusha has begun to emancipate... local result. A man's action then would be determined by universal forces and his state of mind and apparent choice would be only part of the instrumentation of Universal Force. In the case of Socrates and that of the habitual drunkard raised by you, the difference you make is correct. The weak-willed man is governed by his vital and physical impulsions, his mental being is not dynamic enough to ...
... every opportunity to die from its cures. But where is Life in all this? 2 The Revolt of the Earth Has no one, then, ever found the key? There was Socrates: “Know thyself.” They murdered Socrates. There was Prometheus, who wanted to bring the Divine Fire to men. A myth? Symbolically, one could say that in 399 B.C., on the day of the hemlock, the West took a... toward the Secret. Sometimes, there occur strange conjunctions in history, as in planets, through which one can seize upon great vistas of the human march, and its impasses. Near the time Socrates was born, Buddha entered into Nirvana, and Aeschylus was writing his Prometheus . Three great human seeds of whom the last one remains mysterious and unknown. One could say that, with Buddha's... one should be simple and renounce the literary plural to speak in the first person like the man in the street. “What time is it and where are you going? And what impels you, o man?” Thus spoke Socrates: “Stop awhile, my friend, so we can talk. Not about some truth I am supposed to possess, nor about the unseen essence of the world, but about what you were about to do when I met you. You must ...
... greater? Page 36 Trevor —Without hesitation. Keshav —And so the Athenians were right when they put Socrates to death. Trevor —What makes you advance so absurd a paradox? Keshav —Why, your arithmetical system of balancing the good and the evil. The injury to Socrates is not to be put in comparison with the profit to the State, for we prefer the good of the greater number, and the... the effects of their corruption and the pain inflicted on the state by the rising generation growing up corrupt and dissolute, for among conflicting interests we prefer the greatest. Trevor —But Socrates did not corrupt the youth of Athens. Keshav —The Athenians thought he was corrupting their youth and they were bound to act on their opinion. Trevor —They were not bound to act on their opinion... arithmetical balance or at least can only use it when we are dead? Then I do not see much utility in your arithmetical balance. Trevor —Now I come to think of it, the Athenians were right in putting Socrates to death. Keshav —And the Jews in crucifying Christ? Trevor —Yes. Keshav —I admire your fortitude, my dear Trevor. And if the English people had thought Bentham was corrupting their youth ...
... at her husband. She made such a noise that Socrates went downstairs and out of the house and sat exhausted at his own door-step. Just then Xanthippe emptied a bucket of dirty water over his head from the first-floor window. Socrates took the compulsory shower-bath quietly. A passer-by who witnessed the ablution asked him: "Don't you feel annoyed?" Socrates replied: "Friend, we must accept Nature's phenomena... the inimitable pen of Amal Kiran, a celebrated poet-disciple of Sri Aurobindo, whom we have already met in our chapter "The Disciples' Humour".) (1) A rain-storm after a thunder-cloud\ "Socrates was perhaps the most tested, though the least testy, of all philosophers. For he was married to a woman who has become as famous for her nagging ways as he for his equanimity. Her name was Xanthippe... the philosopher) have no doubt contributed to the production of humour. But by themselves these two elements would have produced a humour surely not of a high quality. But the significant words of Socrates have elevated the tone of humour to a sublime height. And in the present instance, the "verbal" and the "ideational" devices play the dominant roles. Here is a second example - again from the ...
... endless. Socrates stands in the Western world as an inspiring figure of a quest that wants to examine life, even at the peril of death. For Socrates, death is only a passage in the immortal life of a soul, a passage to the company of the great seers and sages, of the great heroic souls who live immortally in the world of universality and to converse with whom is indescribable joy. Socrates is a seeker... Socrates Illumination, Heroism and Harmony Preface T he task of preparing teaching-learning material for value- oriented education is enormous. There is, first, the idea that value-oriented education should be exploratory rather than prescriptive, and that the teaching-learning material should provide to the learners a growing experience of exploration ...
... Socratic view that knowledge is innate in our being but it is hidden. Socrates demonstrates in the Platonic dialogue, 'Meno' 1 , how a good teacher can, without teaching, but by asking suitable questions, bring out to the surface the true knowledge which is already unconsciously present in the learner. As we know, Socrates and Plato distinguished between opinions on the one hand, and knowledge... ideas is independent of sense-experience and can be gained by some kind of experience which is akin to remembrance. In other words, according to Socrates and Plato, knowledge is 'remembered' by a process of uncovering. Again, according to Socrates and Plato, virtue is knowledge. Therefore, what is true of knowledge is also true of virtue. Just as knowledge cannot be taught but can only be ...
... well as the richest sat together in the theatre to see and judge the dramas of Sophocles and Euripides, and the Athenian trader and shopkeeper took part in the subtle philosophical conversations of Socrates, created for Europe not only its fundamental political types and ideals but practically all its basic forms of intellectual, philosophical, literary and artistic culture.” 7 The fact that concerns... the public life of the city: they were philosophers “in the true sense of the term”, whose innovating views freed the spirit. They initiated “a veritable intellectual and moral revolution”. Though Socrates did not take money for his teachings, he, the Vibhuti of the rational mind for the West, was after all a sophist and regarded as such by the Athenians. Referring to the role of the sophists, Sri... Athens because they openly expressed their rational doubts about the irrationalities of the religion, the myths and the Gods. They were attacked in the public gatherings, and for his free thinking Socrates will finally pay with his life. Another point of importance is that the tabula rasa advocated by the sophists “allowed to construct, on new grounds, a new morality centred on man alone” (de Romilly) ...
... the Platonic circle around Socrates. I have heard from Nolini that Sri Aurobindo was Socrates. It should, therefore, be no surprise that I would imaginatively be so much at home in that circle. What is of special relevance in relation to your likening my thoughts to Plato's thinkings is that the foundation of Plato's metaphysics which was laid, according to him, by Socrates is an intuition that links ...
... inner consciousness—for there are people like Socrates who develop or have some inner awareness without Yoga—is that one becomes conscious of these invisible forces and can also consciously profit by them or use and direct them. That is all. These things manifest differently, in a different form or transcription, in different people. If it had been Socrates and not Becharlal who was there,—which would... every day and passing you through a mill of philosophical conundrums and unanswerable questions—but still if he had been there, he would have felt it as an intimation from his daemon, "Turn back, Socrates; it is at the Asram that you ought to be now". Another might have felt an intuition that something was up at the Asram. Yet another would have heard a voice or suggestion saying "If you went back ...
... perception, and even involuntary and reflex functions of the body. The story of Socrates can illustrate the power of thought and power of virtue over hostile criticism and even the prospect of death. The close relationship between knowledge and virtue can also be brought out clearly through the life and thought of Socrates. Stories of adventure and courage such as we find in the life of Sri Rama and... of our place in it. One of the great discoveries that the Indian sages and thinkers had made was to identify meaning and substance that is grasped in understanding. One of the discoveries that Socrates had made was that of the power of the concept at the centre of which the meaning stands out as expression of the Essence; and the secret of every concept lies in the intellectual perception of the ...
... Dr. Sharma also referred to the impact of science and said that value should be judged in terms of rationality. He pointed out that Socrates had the boldness to say, "Yes, I may be wrong, but still, I die for what I hold to be true today." He said that Socrates is in sharp contrast to the mediocre politicians of today. He said that it is a matter of irony that politicians come to address professors... deeply enlightened by the proceedings which were very stimulating, he wondered why the educational situation has deteriorated particularly over the past 50 years. He referred to the great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Rousseau, Bernard Shaw, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. He said that in spite of the great agreement among these thinkers, he wondered why their great ideas ...
... chronologically, but psychologically. But Hellas is modern. There is a breath in the Ionian atmosphere, a breath of ozone, as it were, which wafts down to us, even into the air of today. Homer and Solon, Socrates and Aristotle, Pythagoras and Plato are still the presiding gods ruling over the human spirit that was born on Olympus and Ida. Human evolution took a decisive turn with the advent of the Hellenic... Pantheon, but they have, after the manner of their sculptor Phidias, remoulded them, shaped and polished them, made them more luminous and nearer and closer to earth and men. ¹ Was it not said of Socrates that he brought down the gods from heaven upon earth? The intermediary faculty – the Paraclete, which the Greeks brought to play is a corner-stone in the edifice of human progress. It is the... flowered in full vigour, however, in the earlier philosophical schools, the Sankhyas perhaps, and in the great Buddhist illumination – Buddha being, we note with interest, almost a contemporary of Socrates and also of the Chinese philosopher or moralist Confucius – a triumvirate almost of mighty mental intelligence ruling over the whole globe and moulding for an entire cycle human culture and destiny ...
... in some higher force greater than themselves moving them. Socrates used to call this force his Daemon. Demon means divine being. It is curious how sometimes even in small things one depends on the voice. Once Socrates was walking with a disciple. When they were about to take a turn, the disciple said, "Let us go along this route." Socrates replied, "No, my Daemon asks me to take that other." The disciple ...
... some higher Force, greater than themselves, moving them. Socrates used to call this Daemon – man's divine being. It is curious how sometimes even in small things one depends on this voice. Once Socrates was walking with a disciple. When they came to a place where they had to take a turn, the disciple said, “let us take this route.” Socrates said : "my deamon asks me to take the other.” The disciple ...
... a Ramamurti. She may seek to bring about a better combination of mental & moral, or of moral, mental & physical energies; but is she likely to produce anything much above the level of Confucius or Socrates? It is more probable & seems to be true that Nature seeks in this field to generalise a higher level and Page 116 a better combination. Neither need we believe that, even here, her object... material make any difference to the level of natural attainment. All the accumulated discoveries & varied information of the modern scientist will not make him mentally the superior of Aristotle or Socrates; he is neither an acuter mind nor a greater mental force. All the varied activities of modern philanthropy will not produce a greater moral type than Buddha or St Francis. The invention of the motor ...
... as having taught that originally humans were born from animals. Archelaus, the first Athenian philosopher and a teacher of Socrates, said that at first men were included among the animals and were afterwards separated from them. And Democritus, also a contemporary of Socrates, gave a fairly consistent picture of the evolution from primitive hunter-gatherers to agricultural civilization. Then there ...
... the material care of the disciples. Page 81 The emphasis on the truth and on righteousness in the Upanishads and their connection are similar to what we find in the Famous doctrine of Socrates, "Virtue is Knowledge". While virtue can be equated to ṛtaṃ, knowledge may be equated with satyaṃ. Some scholars even believe that the Socratic doctrine was derived from Upanishadic knowledge... theGreat Homer and the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men -Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Sri Rama The beloved and victorious Hero Other titles published by SAIIER and Shubhra Ketu Foundation ________________________________ The Aim of Life ...
... Socrates Appendix IV Famous Quotations from Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. I am the wisest ...
... the quantity doesn't affect him, it can't be excess for him. DR. MANILAL: I submit, Sir. SRI AUROBINDO: In Plato's Symposium, Socrates, Aristophanes, Agathon and others meet and discuss the nature of love, and drink wine. Everybody gets drunk except Socrates. Even after heavy drinking he keeps on discussing philosophy with some friends, while the rest fall asleep. You can't call him a drunkard ...
... author of works on logic, ethics, politics, poetics, rhetoric, biology, zoology, and metaphysics. His works influenced Muslim philosophy and science and medieval scholastic philosophy. 2. Socrates: 470-399 B.C., Athenian philosopher, whose beliefs are known only through the writings of his pupils Plato and Xenophon. He taught that virtue was based on knowledge, which was attained by a dialectical... youth (399) and was condemned to death. He refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock. Page 12 that would lead him to do the right action voluntarily. This was the very teaching of Socrates: "Virtue is knowledge." Alexander also must have learned the ethical doctrine of Aristotle himself, according to whom virtue meant a mean between extremes. Aristotle was the first logician of the ...
... Balwant that I had known earlier. He was peaceful and cheerful. When I told him that we wanted him to be released, he said, "Since yesterday, I have been thinking deeply of two great personalities - Socrates and Jesus. Both were victims of the laws and judicial systems of their times; both would have been able to avoid condemnation; but both voluntarily allowed the chariot of time to pass over them. And... into my inner ears : "Abandon all laws and take refuge in Me alone. I shall deliver thee from all sin; do not grieve." I could say nothing. But I, too, resolved to sit at the feet of Socrates and Jesus and to hear the message of the Gita. On the 20th June, my Law College opened and, as arranged earlier, I was granted admission under new rules. Law had yielded to the requirements of ...
... too rapid a tide of progress: for a time they acted as some feeble check on the individual, but when the merciless questioning of Socrates and his followers crumbled them to pieces, nothing was left for society to live by. Reason, justice and enlightened virtue which Socrates and his successors offered as a substitute, could not take their place because the world was not, nor is it yet sattwic enough ...
... time too, for Nolini has reported that two of Sri Aurobindo's incarnations in the past were Pericles and Socrates — Pericles who stood at the sovereign centre of the Classical Age of Greece which was one of the finest efflorescences of the human spirit, literary as well as political — Socrates who came at the end of this Age and initiated most brilliantly and profoundly the reign of the inspired reason ...
... Princess said. "I know. I understand because although I was brought up as a Marxist, I came to be greatly influenced by Socrates and Plato. It is the Page 14 "Dialogues" of Plato that gave the structure and substance to my brain. And, you know, both Socrates and Plato believed in Soul and in God." "Yes, but the Western thought developed on new lines. Christianity brought in new ...
... pupil an enormous wealth of information and some degree of intimacy with the teachings of Socrates and Plato. Alexander surely must have known that man could attain his highest well-being only by acquiring a knowledge that would lead him to do the right action voluntarily. This was the very teaching of Socrates: "Virtue is knowledge." Alexander also must have learned the ethical doctrine of Aristotle ...
... country by the foreign invaders. 6. Alexander the Great was the first invader of India. 7. Alexander's Master was Aristotle; Aristotle's Master was Plato, and Plato learnt at the feet of Socrates. 8. Socrates had to drink hemlock and die. 9. Was Christ too offered hemlock before his crucifixion? 10. Christ is one of the three Avatars mentioned by Sri Aurobindo, the other two being Krishna and ...
... the domain of the pursuit and practice of values since, as we climb on higher and subtler domains, Page 21 Knowledge and Will tend to blend with each other in the sense in which Socrates visualised even their identity when he declared his famous doctrine that Virtue is Knowledge Normally, the tendency is to limit the field of value education to the ethical consideration of the practice... on self-knowledge. Much of this knowledge is readily available in the yogic science, religious traditions and ethical experience. "Know thyself" is a precept both of the Eastern and Western wisdom; Socrates spoke of the "Daemon" which always warned him against doing anything that deviated from virtue and the good; the ethical experience speaks of inner conscience and of categorical imperative; the yogic ...
... to our habit of mind. The impression we get is that thoughts are being breathed into us, expressions dictated, the whole poured in from outside; the saints who spoke to Joan of Arc, the daemon of Socrates, Tasso's familiar, the Angel Gabriel dictating the Koran to Mahomet are only exaggerated developments of this impression due to an epileptic, maniac or excited state of the mind; and this, as I have ...
... Among the Not So Great Manibhai My belief is that to have no wants is Divine. Socrates Manibhai hailed from Old East Africa. He was a Postmaster there, well respected for his work and as a person. He happened to read some literature on Sri Aurobindo and the Ashram and decided to come over — way back in 1929. He visited this place ...
... out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine ...
... Europe”, as opposed to what he called the German backwardness, heaviness and shallowness. What Nietzsche could not accept was the monopoly or autocracy of reason. He sharply and repeatedly attacked Socrates, according to him the thinker responsible for the reverence assigned to the mind in European civilization. He called autonomous thought a deadly illness, and opposed to Apollo, the god of light and ...
... the thinking assimilated by Gnosticism can be traced back through most of the previous history. Direct influences are discernible of Pythagoranism, Platonism, the ascetic schools referring back to Socrates, and Neoplatonism. Gnosticism also enriched itself with Hermetism, and it has inherited undeniable elements of oriental thought, especially Indian. It should once more be remembered that there were ...
... that every breach or widening of the narrow, rigid circle of general awareness threatened its author with the danger of punishment and social discrimination. Innovation and progress have needed their Socrates, Luther, Bruno or Galileo in all cultures, in all times. Gradualism in geology was initiated by Hutton, taken over by Lyell, and accepted by Darwin. The first geologists, in Britain as well as ...
... because as a whole they formed the school of “German Idealism”, which attained some of the most elevated and 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 ...
... intention, good for evil. And even an unegoistic virtue or a divine good and love entering the world awakens hostile reactions. Attila and Jenghiz on the throne to the end, Christ on the cross and Socrates drinking his portion of hemlock are no very clear evidence for any optimistic notion of a law of moral return in the world of human nature. There is little more sign of its sure existence in the ...
... am not sure, from what I have seen, that it is not those who have the greatest power for Yoga who have too, very often, or have had the greatest imperfections. You know, I suppose, the comment of Socrates on his own character; that could be said by many great Yogins of their own initial human nature. Also, self-expression in some form of art does not preclude serious imperfections and, of itself, does ...
... run, run, run! die, die, say die, say die." That is always the substance of it, the rest is only skin and shell to give it a good presentation. I don't reason with the creature; you may reason like Socrates and be as convincing as the Buddha, but after a little it will soon come back and sing the same song over again. It pretends to reason, but doesn't care a damn for either truth or reason—I know too ...
... forces at every step which act on men and bring about events without their knowing about the instrumentation. The difference created by Yoga or by an inner consciousness—for there are people like Socrates who develop or have some inner awareness without Yoga—is that one becomes conscious of these invisible forces and can also consciously profit by them or use and direct them. That is all. Sri Aurobindo ...
... out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine ...
... the "Life Divine" chapter entitled "The Double Soul in Man", Sri Aurobindo speaks first of the psychic entity which "is the Witness Page 333 and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates" etc. Then he speaks of this entity taking form in us as the psychic Person, by which He evidently means the psychic being, and which, He says, grows and develops and "is the traveller between birth ...
... 5.THE WISDOM OF CHILDREN—Leo Tolstoy 6.DAVID COPPERFIELD—Charles Dickens 7.MY ELDER BROTHER—PremChand 8.COROMANDEL FISHERS—Sarojini Naidu 9.CASABLANCA—Felicia Hemans 10.SOCRATES 11.REMINISCENCES—Rabindra Nath Tagore 12.ALFRED NOBEL 13.THE HAPPY PRINCE—Oscar Wilde 14.SCIENTIFIC GENIUS OF THE ATOMIC AGE—ALBERT EINSTEIN: Bella Koral 15.KING ...
... also practised in a great measure and by very large sections of the society. It is true that while the recognition of the Spirit is quite discernible in the ancient Greek thought, particularly in Socrates and Plato, yet a special and greater emphasis was laid on the powers of Reason and on the means and methods by which Reason can integrate the ethical, aesthetic, pragmatic and physical aspects of ...
... and inorganic matter has become a fundamental notion of modern physics. His science of seeing, saper vedere, as a precise method of revealing and understanding the secrets of reality ranks beside Socrates' Know that you do not know as a philosophical and practical guideline for a conscious life. The philosopher and historian Will Durant has this to say about Leonardo: How shall we rank ...
... Great Homer and the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Sri Rama The beloved and victorious Hero Arguments for the Existence of God Taittiriya Upanishad Other titles published by SAIIER and Shubhra ...
... sharp distinction which the Christian and the Oriental world has normally drawn between the body and the soul, the physical and the spiritual, was foreign to the Greek — at least until the time of Socrates and Plato. To him there was simply the whole man. That the body is the tomb of the soul is indeed an idea which we meet in certain Greek mystery-religions, and Plato, with his doctrine of immortality ...
... Perhaps Elie Faure makes that remark because of the satyrs. SRI AUROBINDO: That is quite another matter. The satyrs are symbolic. PURANI: He also argues, rather queerly, that the poisoning of Socrates, the banishment of Themistocles and the killing of other great men, were an expression of unrestrained passion. SRI AUROBINDO: What has that to do with art? PURANI: He means that the Greek mind ...
... not seem to have any other standard: submission, obedience, any diminution of the sense of separate individuality meant slavery and loss of human value and dignity. It was the Greek perhaps, with Socrates as the great pioneer, who first declared the supremacy of the individual reason (although he himself obeyed in all things his guardian angel, the Daemon). In India, generally in the East, the value ...
... but that rationalism was the function of a sublimated intelligence and a refined sensibility and served as a vehicle for a Higher Perception – a ratiocinative and ultra-logical mind, like that of Socrates, could yet be so passive and upgazing as to receive and obey the commandments of a Dremon; whereas the rationalism, which is in vogue today and to which orthodox Scientism has affixed ...
... 276 Shaw, Bernard, 140, 145, 254 -Back to Methuselah, 140 Shelley, 194 Shiva, 268 Shivaji,93, 394, 396 Shylock, 100 Sisupala, 80 Socrates, 16, 150,219-20,222,229,273 Solon, 219 Spain, 72 Sparta, 25 Spengler, Oswald, 238 Sri Aurobindo, 96, 222, 239, 250, 262, 270n., 277-8, 280-1, 283, 288, 336-7 ...
... Sri Aurobindo writes again: "And even an unegoistic virtue or a divine good and love entering the world awakens reactions. Attila and Jenghiz on the throne to the end. Christ on the Cross and Socrates drinking his portion of hemlock." (Ibid., p. 148) Page 118 2. Traditional View. The distribution of rewards and punishments is the pith of the operation of Karma. For, this ...
... is this comic laughter due to? What are the essential elements that provoke or sustain it? III. Theories of Comic Laughter There have been many contending theories in the field. From Socrates to Koestler various thinkers have tried to explain the reason for the comic feeling and the consequent laughter. Each of them has sought to pin-point one essential element in the complex phenomenon ...
... being as we begin to uncover deeper and higher depths of our selves, which transcend the limitations of egoism. Self-knowledge and self-control are the true foundations of value education. As Socrates had pointed out, virtue is knowledge, and it is when knowledge is rightly pursued, that pursuit of virtue attains its right place as a spontaneous action and it has lustre brighter than that obtains ...
... being as we begin to uncover deeper and higher depths of our Selves, which transcend the limitations of egoism. Self-knowledge and self control are the true foundations of value education. As Socrates had pointed out, virtue is knowledge, and it is when knowledge is rightly pursued, that pursuit of virtue attains its right place as a spontaneous action and it has a lustre brighter than that obtains ...
... development will depend upon how far the contents and methods of education can harmonise the demands Page 37 of freedom and discipline. It is worth remembering the famous view of Socrates that it is only when we are utterly free that we cannot but choose the good and the right. The programme that is presented here aims at providing a flexible framework of the study and practice ...
... the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati 's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity ...
... Great Homer and the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Sri Rama The beloved and victorious Hero Arguments for the Existence of God Taittiriya Upanishad Selected Episodes from Raghuvarhsam of Kalidasa ...
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... Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati’s Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity s ...
... Great Homer and the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Sri Rama The beloved and victorious Hero Taittiriya Upanishad Other titles published by SAIIER and Shubhra Ketu Foundation The Aim of Life ...
... Krishna in Vrindavan •Nala and Damayanti •Episodes from Raghuvamsham of Kalidasa •The Siege of Troy •Homer and the Iliad-Sri Aurobindo and Ilion •Gods and the World •Socrates •Crucifixion •Alexander the Great •Joan of Arc •Catherine the Great •Uniting Men-Jean Monnet •Arguments for the Existence of God •Marie Sklodowska Curie ...
... Krishna in Vrindavan •Nala and Damayanti •Episodes from Raghuvamsham of Kalidasa •The Siege of Troy •Homer and the Iliad-Sri Aurobindo and Ilion •Gods and the World •Socrates •Crucifixion •Alexander the Great m •Joan of Arc •Catherine the Great •Uniting Men-Jean Monnet •Arguments for the Existence of God •Marie Sklodowska Curie ...
... 1ere developed, the historical curve of development, however took different turns. The age of the Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries in Greece was followed by a gradual development through Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato into an age of intellectual efflorescence; in India, the age of Vedic Mysteries was followed, after considerable loss of the yogic knowledge during an intermediate period, by a fresh renewal ...
... search for new ways, new aspects of the truth more in harmony with our environment. And we question each other and debate and quarrel and evolve any number of "isms" and philosophies. As in the days of Socrates, we live in an age of questioning, but that questioning is not confined to a city like Athens; it is world-wide. Sometimes the injustice, the unhappiness, the brutality of the world oppress us ...
... mutual contact. We have known of "independent discoveries" of the same truth or fact and innumerable instances of this kind has history provided for us. It is not a freak of nature that we find Socrates and Buddha and Confucious as contemporaries. Contemporaries also were India's Akbar, England's Elizabeth and Italy's Leo X. Also the year 1905 has been known as Annus Mirabilis, a year of seminal ...
... interest man as man. To this however an important corollary is to be added, that it does not concern itself with things that do not concern man's humanity. The original father of humanism was perhaps Socrates whose mission it was, as he said, to bring down philosophy from heaven to live among men. More precisely, the genesis should be ascribed rather to the Aristotelian tradition of Socratic teaching. ...
... 176n -Sonnets, 178-9 -The Winter's Tale, 233n Shankara, 246, 277, 282 Shelley, 68, 71, 98, 235 Shita1a, 180 Siddhacharyas, 164, 221-2, 225 Siddhas, 221 Siva, 31, 278 Socrates, 12, 58, 73, 98, 239, 281 Soma, 23, 28-9, 44-5, 165, 167, 184 Song if Solomon, 66-7 Sophocles, 73, 86, 187, 189 Spain, 205 Spengler, 297 Spenser, 68 Spinoza, 98 Sri ...
... Nature and the still more exquisite glories that the human body has captured? They are but vibrations and modulations of beauty—the delightful names and forms of the supreme Lover and Beloved. Socrates is said to have brought down Philosophy from Heaven to live among men upon earth. A similar exploit can be ascribed to Tagore. The Spirit, the bare transcendental Reality contemplated by the orthodox ...
... Savitri, 163, 165 Second Empire, the, 418 Shakespeare, 79, 116n., 406 -Julius Caesar, 116n. -Hamlet, 72n. Shankara, 17, 21, 68, 71,403 Shelley, 209 Shiva, 129, 208, 339 Socrates, 116 Soma, 70, 208 Spanish Armada, the, 198 Sri Aurobindo, 3-4, 7-10, 17-19, 22, 25, 27, 29, 34, 36, 44, 59-60, 71, 84n., 85-6,89-91, 95, 109n., 117n., 125, 127, 129n., 148, 154, 163n ...
... in the age or rather ages of the Gita, the Mahabharata, the Darshanas. It was the rational spirit that impelled and inspired the Buddhist consciousness and in Europe it had its heyday in the age of Socrates and Plato. Those were intellectual ages and the intellect was trying to find and explore its own domain in its full and free power and sovereignty. And the human language too, as a necessary corollary ...
... The Sorrows of God THE Son of Man – the Avatar – suffers with and suffers for the suffering humanity. The Christ with his cross, Ramakrishna with his cancer, Socrates with the hemlock creeping up and benumbing his limbs and Mohammed being hunted from place to place are familiar and poignant pictures. "Verily, verily, the foxes have their holes, the birds their ...
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... Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity Page 90 ...
... Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Philosophy of Supermind and Contemporary Crisis Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on ...
... and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the lliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity Page 112 ...
... out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is what which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine ...
... have hardly any spiritual realisation. What we understand is at best morality. We highly admire the art and literature of Greece. But in respect of Greek spirituality our knowledge is confined to Socrates. In the earlier period of Greek civilisation there was a current of deep spiritual culture, and what they used to call the Mysteries were only mysteries of spiritual yogic discipline. We fail to ...
... real being.”² The psychic is the real, abiding core of man's shifting outer structure. That is his real "I". To discover and realise the psychic or the soul must be his first business in life, as Socrates always insisted, and as every religion or spiritual discipline invariably teaches. Science, as Bertrand Russell admits, is incapable of furthering man's genuine progress, simply because it cannot ...
... Disciple : Perhaps because of the satyrs he says so. Sri Aurobindo : That is quite another matter, they are symbolic. Disciple : He also argues, rather queerly, that the poisoning of Socrates, the banishment of Themistocles and the killing of other great men were an expression of unrestrained passion. Greek life was far from settled at the time. Sri Aurobindo : What has that to ...
... all times grouped under "The Song of Wisdom" and "Wisdom and the Religions" - a veritable universal congress of the world's seers, saints and savants like Asoka, Carlyle, Porphyry, Seneca, Emerson, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Voltaire, Tseu-Tse, Confucius, Minamoto Sanetomo, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Epictetus, Lao-Tse, Leibnitz, Hermes, Schopenhauer, Sadi, Asvaghosha, Rumi, Spinoza, Bahaaullah, Omar ...
... Chettiar (Chetty) 47, 131 Shanti Doshi 271-3 Shantimayi (Janet McPheeters) 255, 296-7, 321 Shastri, Lal Bahadur 596 Shyamsunder Jhunjhunwalla 817 Sisirkumar Ghose 234 Sisirkumar Mitra 433, 676 Socrates 315 Soli Albless 568 SRI AUROBINDO 232, 420, 503, 635-6 Categorised under 1. Biographical 2. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother 3. Others on Sri Aurobindo 4. Sri Aurobindo on ...
... out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic...." "It is... untouched by death, decay or corruption....It is...the true original Conscience in us deeper than the constructed and conventional conscience ...
... are the texture of the flesh and sentences the system of hard matter that gives it consistency: the texture of the flesh may be coarse or delicate, and as you design so you shall build. Just as Socrates was nothing without his daemon , so the artist is helpless if he has not his daemon at his elbow. And who is the artist's daemon? The artistic conscience. Inspiration means that the papyrus of ...
... by itself questions and considers, weighs, examines and ponders and so arrives at certain perceptions and conclusions by which it guides itself. This is European vichar and its supreme example is Socrates. The danger of vichar is that if it does not start with certain premises and assumptions, it will end in the absolute uncertainty of the Page 500 Academic philosophers who could not even ...
... saw and communed with the gods and threw themselves into the worlds of which they had the conception. They believed in them for the same reason that Joan of Arc believed in her saints & her voices, Socrates in his daemon or Swedenborg in his spirits, because they had constant experience of them and of the validity both of the experiences and of the instruments of mind & sense by which they were maintained ...
... well as the richest sat together in the theatre to see and judge the dramas of Sophocles and Euripides and the Athenian trader and shopkeeper took part in the subtle philosophical conversations of Socrates, created for Europe not only its fundamental political types and ideals but practically all its basic forms of intellectual, philosophical, Page 360 literary and artistic culture. The ...
... in our ignorant human confusion of religion with a particular creed, sect, cult, religious society or Church. So strong is the human tendency to this error that even the old tolerant Paganism slew Socrates in the name of religion and morality, feebly persecuted non-national faiths like the cult of Isis or the cult of Mithra and more vigorously what it conceived to be the subversive and anti-social religion ...
... forces at every step which act on men and bring about events without their knowing about the instrumentation. The difference created by Yoga or by an inner consciousness—for there are people like Socrates who develop or have some inner awareness without Yoga—is that one becomes conscious of these invisible forces and can also consciously profit by them or use and direct them. That is all. I ...
... have ordinarily set up the figure of Apollo or of Aphrodite as representing the Greek ideal of Beauty. But actually this ideal was caught in the pug-nosed, stumpy, pot-bellied satyr of a man that was Socrates! He Page 357 was Beauty incarnate because his very being was saturated with a sense of the supreme Beauty that was Truth. The mere physical looks did not matter in the ultimate judgment ...
... what you are, you are human and that is why you must not cross limits but do everything in moderation. We Aurobindonians don't agree with these interpreters. We think "Know thyself means what Socrates had in mind: you must know your true being which is more than human, your soul which is divine. Ours is exactly the opposite of the other interpretation. Of course with our interpretation we would ...
... India, in Greece of the early intellectual thinkers. Afterwards came the full tide of philosophic rationalism, Buddha or the Buddhists and the logical philosophers in India, in Greece the Sophists and Socrates with all their splendid progeny; with them the intellectual method did not indeed begin, but came to its own and grew to its fullness. Heraclitus belongs to the transition, not to the noontide of ...
... strict in the first - while in the second it is relaxed, somewhat as in drunkenness or dream", 2 or again: "The eighteenth century had always had at its ear two voices, like the warning Daemon of Socrates; one whispering'That is not intelligent', the other 'That is not done'. Romanticism seems to me, essentially, an attempt to drown these two voices and liberate the unconscious life from their tyrannical ...
... the ashirvada, the abhishap, the speaking with many tongues were all given to them. The day of Pentecost is still kept holy by the Christian Church. Joan of Arc used her siddhis to liberate France. Socrates had his siddhis, some of them of a very material nature. Men of great genius are usually born with some of them and use them unconsciously. Even in natures far below the power and clarity of genius ...
... influence on the religion, the social ideas, the daily life of the people, its immense dynamic Page 244 power on the mind and actions of Indian humanity. The Greek thinkers, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, the Stoics and Epicureans, had also this practical aim and dynamic force, but it acted only on the cultured few. That was because Greek philosophy, losing its ancient affiliation to the Mystics ...
... deeply to Gandhi is a stupendous unknown quantity, something uncharted by Marx and unanalyzed by science and inadequately covered by moral principles. He compares Gandhi's influence to that of Socrates, and thereby confesses his own intuition of the metaphysical and "daemonic" touch. That intuition, fundamentally, binds him to Gandhi for all the empirical mould his mind has acquired from Western ...
... something that is virtually unrealisable as present. In short, there is no past, present or future at all - in existence - but a constant and relentless becoming. "All being is nothing but becoming." Socrates points out that the unexamined life is not worth living. This is the predicament of the thinking mind. The creative experience creates a present that is relishable , while it grapples with the ...
... Nehru to Gandhi was a stupendous unknown quantity, something uncharted by Marx and unanalysed by science and inadequately covered by merely moral principles. He compared Gandhi's influence to that of Socrates, and thereby confessed his own intuition of the metaphysical and "daemonic" touch. Even apart from his sense of a mighty X behind Gandhi, he has not omitted to report en passant his own unfathomable ...
... indwelling Divinity. This is the distinction we can gather from the Gita which is the main authority on this subject.” 4 Among the Vibhutis may be counted: Veda Vyasa, Hatshepsut, Moses, Pericles, Socrates, Alexander, Confucius, Lao Tse, Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Shankara, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and undoubtedly many more in all times and climes ...
... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was that I had been an ancient Athenian. It is curious that I never inquired who the fellow had been. If, as reported, Sri Aurobindo had been Pericles and a little later Socrates (as declared by Nolini), I guess I must have belonged to the period of the one or the other. The two certainties about Sri Aurobindo's past, as deducible from his correspondence with me, were Augustus ...
... to guard against the ultra-mundane drift of his mystical consciousness and keep hold of Plato's Socratic sense that the Divine is present even in the market-place and remember always the prayer of Socrates that the outer should be brought into tune with the luminous inner. Plotinus is reported to have had an aversion to mirrors lest he should chance to see that contemptible thing, his body. (14 ...
... to "fight without attachment of fever ?” (Yudhyasya bigatajwara) And what philosophy! Life is like a mirror returning what you give it ? Does the fellow know not even the ABC of history ? Did Socrates preach murder that he was judicially murdered ? Did Christ preach force that he was crucified by force ? What about long processions of martyrs who preached love and got back hate ? Why what about ...
... run, run, run! die, die, say die, say die." That is always the substance of it, the rest is only skin and shell to give it a good presentation. I don't reason with the creature: you may reason like Socrates and be as convincing as the Buddha, but after a little it will soon come back and sing the same song over again. It pretends to reason, but does not care a damn or utter truth or reason—1 know too ...
... within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature... It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice Page 34 of the mystic... It is the individual soul, caitya purusa, supporting mind, life and body, standing behind the mental, the vital, the subtle-physical ...
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... psychic being in The Life Divine. And he says: It is the flame that burns in the heart, which is inextinguishable, it is the conscience deeper than the conscience of the moralist. It is the Daemon of Socrates, it is that which turns always towards the truth and beauty and goodness, that which detects the truth from falsehood, unmistakably. That is our true soul which is within ourselves. Without illumining ...
... being as we begin to uncover deeper and higher depths of our Selves, which transcend the limitations of egoism. Self-knowledge and self-control are the true foundations of value education. As Socrates had pointed out, virtue is knowledge, and it is when knowledge is rightly pursued, that pursuit of virtue attains its right place as a spontaneous action and it has a lustre brighter than that obtains ...
... being as we begin to uncover deeper and higher depths of our Selves, which transcend the limitations of egoism. Self-knowledge and self-control are the true foundations of value education. As Socrates had pointed out, virtue is knowledge, and it is when knowledge is rightly pursued, that pursuit of virtue attains its right place as a spontaneous action and it has lustre brighter than that obtains ...
... Nala and Damayanti Raghuvamsham of Kalidasa Svapna Vasavadattam The Siege of Troy Gods & the World Homer and the Iliad -Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Socrates Alexander the Great The Crucifixion Joan of Arc Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Arguments for the Existence of God Marie ...
... and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity ...
... out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and Page 42 is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible ...
... education is dependent upon the aim of life that is conceived and attempted to be realized. It is in this context that we need to turn to the great teachers, the Rishis, Krishna, the Buddha, Christ, Socrates, and others who have attempted to chum the ocean of life and indicated what they have discovered at the peak of their achievements. However, they might differ among themselves, their very differences ...
... questions have occupied the best minds of the East and the West through long ages of history. In India, we find in the different systems of philosophy, these questions and their answers. In the West, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been witnessed as gripped by these questions. In the Medieval history of Europe, we find St. Thomas Aquinas proving existence of God by means of what is called the Ontological ...
... Alexander the Great Homer and the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men —Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Other titles published by SAIIER and Shubhra Ketu Foundation ______________________________ The Aim of Life The Good Teacher and the Good Pupil ...
... of education for character development will depend upon how far the contents and methods of education can harmonise the demands of freedom and discipline. It is worth remembering the famous view of Socrates that it is only when we are utterly free that we cannot but choose the good and the right. The programme that is presented here aims at providing a flexible framework of the study and practice ...
... Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Taittiriya Upanishad Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Svapna Vasavadattam Arguments for the Existence of God Marie Sklodowska Curie Episodes from Raghuvamsham ...
... realm of tragic drama there were Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; in comedy there was Aristophanes. Herodotus the father of History was there and the master sculptor Phidias. Above all, there was Socrates with his band of young disciples. All of them produced their wonderful work during this period of a little more than a hundred years. We may remember that precisely during this period, that is about ...
... to study Mazzini in place of King John or The Faerie Queene. One day I suddenly discovered that they had removed my Mazzini from the shelves of the library, and even the Life and Death of Socrates by Plato had disappeared. These books were no doubt supposed to turn the heads of our Indian students! About this time, I had been several times to my home town of Rungpore. There at the local ...
... energy, into imaginative tissue", 20 bearing the same relation to dialectical discourse or philosophical Page 263 statement as a tragedy by Aeschylus bears to an exposition by Socrates. 21 Max Muller asserted that, "There is mythology now as there was in the time of Homer, only we do not perceive it, because we ourselves live in the very shadow of it, and because we all shrink ...
... not seem to have any other standard: submission, obedience, any diminution of the sense of separate individuality meant slavery and loss of human value and dignity. It was the Greek perhaps, with Socrates as the great pioneer, who first declared the supremacy of the individual reason- (although he himself obeyed in all things his guardian angel, the Daemon). In India, generally in the East, the value ...
... used to study Mazzini in place of King John or The Faerie Queene. One day I suddenly discovered that they had removed my Mazzini from the shelves of the library, and even the Life and Death of Socrates by Plato had disappeared. These books were no doubt supposed to turn the heads of our Indian students! About this time, I had been several times to my home town Rungpore. There at the local ...
... the manner is the Gita. Valmiki's represented a more ancient and primary inspiration, of a vast vital sensibility, something of the kind that was at the basis of Homer's genius. In Greece it was Socrates who initiated the movement of speculative philosophy and the emphasis of intellectual power slowly began to find expression in the later poets, Sophocles and Euripides. But all these were very ...
... countrymen! Then I and you and all of us fell down— A Jeanne d'Arc, another glorious creature, Deliverer of France, the sweetest thing that ever put on a human body, was burnt as a witch. Socrates had to drink the hemlock for having brought down heavenly knowledge upon earth. The Christ, God's own son and beloved, perished on the Cross. Krishna, the Avatara, was killed by a chance arrow; and ...
... Alexandrine culture and has, for its ideal, the theoretical man, armed with the most powerful instruments of knowledge, toiling in the service of science and whose prototype and original ancestor is Socrates." Indeed, it may be generally asserted that the nation whose prophet and sage claimed to have brought down Philosophia from heaven to dwell upon earth among men was precisely the nation, endowed with ...
... Disciple : Nobility of soul, must it not express itself in physical beauty ? Sri Aurobindo : That is what should be; but it is not so always in life. A man's soul may be as noble as that of Socrates and he may be as ugly ! Disciple : Children are all and always beautiful. Sri Aurobindo : In them it is the vital glow. Disciple : Does psychic beauty consist in colour or ...
... in human nature of which Matthew Arnold speaks, of the Shelleyan saddest thoughts: Nietzsche need not have gone elsewhere in his quest for the origin and birth Page 272 of Tragedy. A Socrates discontented, the Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and Amitabha, the soul of pity and compassion are peculiarly human phenomena. They are not merely human weaknesses and failings that are to be brushed ...
... countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, ¹ A Jeanne d'Arc, another glorious creature, Deliverer of France, the sweetest thing that ever put on a human body, was burnt as a witch. Socrates had to drink the hemlock for having brought down heavenly knowledge upon earth. The Christ, God's own son and beloved, perished on the Cross. Krishna, the Avatara, was killed by a chance arrow; and ...
... nature, perhaps some "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought". Such an age of Reason and Ratiocination and pure brain power was ushered in by Buddha in India, and almost contemporaneously by Socrates in Greece and Confucius in China. The rational, that is to say, the scientific or analytical attitude to things appeared in the human consciousness for the first time in its fullness and almost exclusive ...
... for making specific tests in the hospital. He began to suffer from fever, jaundice, abscesses, joint pains, and a host of diverse complaints which made him extremely irritable. He pestered me like Socrates with all sorts of questions, the why and the how of his ailments, their remedy, and the last question, when would he be all right? I reported faithfully all this to the Mother and to Sri Aurobindo ...
... important corollary is to be added, that it does not concern itself with things that do not concern man's humanity. The original father of humanism was perhaps the father of European culture itself, Socrates, whose mission it was, as he said, to bring down philosophy from heaven to live among men. More precisely the genesis should be ascribed to the Aristotelian tradition of Socratic teaching. Humanism ...
... of the manner is the Gita. Valmiki's represented a more ancient and primary inspiration, of a vast vital sensibility, something of the kind that was at the basis of Homer's genius. In Greece it was Socrates who initiated the movement of speculative philosophy and the emphasis of intellectual power slowly began to find expression in the later poets, Sophocles and Euripides. But all these were very simple ...
... 57 followers the movement came to the forefront of human consciousness and attained the proportions of a major member of man's psychological constitution. We may remember here that Socrates, who started a similar movement of rationalisation in his own way in Europe, was almost a contemporary of the Buddha. Poetry as an expression of thought-power, poetry weighted with intelligence ...
... Nature and the still more exquisite glories that the human body has captured? They are but vibrations and modulations of beauty-the delightful names and forms of the supreme Lover and Beloved. Socrates is said to have brought down Philosophy from Heaven to live among men upon earth. A similar exploit can be ascribed to Tagore. The Spirit, the bare transcendental Reality contemplated by the orthodox ...
... no mutual contact. We have known of "independent discoveries" of the same truth or fact and innumerable instances of this kind has history provided for us. It is not a freak of nature that we find Socrates and Buddha and Confucious as contemporaries. Contemporaries also were India's Akbar, England's Elizabeth and Italy's Leo X. Also the year 1905 has been known as Annus Mirabilis, a year of seminal ...
... 252-3, 307 Shakespeare, 228, 386, 391 – Hamlet, 386n – Julius Caesar, 386n – King Lear, 391n Shankara, 104-5, 309, 344 Sindhus, 330 Shiva, 106, 182, 184, 207, 297 Socrates, 196,297, 379 Soma, 330 Sri Aurobindo, 3, 8,9, 29n., 42,46,51, 90, 101n., 105, 120, 135, 151, 163, 168,212,236-7,248, 254-5, 270n., 274, 276, 284, 285n., 286n., 287, 293, 300, 318n ...
... accepted them. Barely twenty years after Lenin, to speak only of our present civilization, what remained of pure communism? What remains even of Christ beneath the mass of dogmas and prohibitions? Socrates was poisoned, and Rimbaud fled to the Abyssinian desert; we know the fate of the Fourierists, of nonviolence; the Cathars wound up at the stake. History keeps turning like a Moloch. We may now appear ...
... But it is lucky that, on a June Sunday morning in 1929, somebody - Perhaps Miss Maitland? - put a series of questions to the Mother as a provocation for a memorable pronouncement, recalling almost Socrates' celebrated rhapsody on Love in Plato's Symposium. Of the Mother's many Aspects, Powers and Personalities, the face of Love was the most significant and nectarean, and it was as the Mother of Love ...
... at the altar of the State? State egoism may be a larger, a more powerful and ruthless egoism, but not a superior one; "rather in many ways inferior to the best individual egoism". The "egoism" of Socrates, for example, was far, far superior to that of the State that condemned him to death. "Man lives by the community," says Sri Aurobindo; "he needs it to develop himself individually as well as co ...
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