Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Reading Sri Aurobindo is like reading an updated Kant

Tusar N. Mohapatra Says: September 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 am [8:48 AM 9:26 AM]

[I suppose that, genealogically, all this is Kant’s secular-Enlightenment updating of the old Christian virtue of hope. But it locates what is hoped for in this life, this world, rather than in an afterlife, or in some sort of post-apocalyptic recovery]

The same emphasis of “in this life, this world” can also be found in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, even though his thought comes under the rubric, spiritual. Reading Sri Aurobindo is like reading an updated Kant.

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