[And of course, it doesn’t help that Neoplatonism
was given form by Plotinus and his successors (ie: Porphyry, Proclus),
reshaping other crucial precursor movements such as Epicureanism and Stoicism,
yet its center soon transfered to a ‘non-western’ culture, namely, the Arabic
speaking world. No wonder the ‘west’ wants to forget this! But this Neoplatonic
synthesis is in fact where ‘the west’ came from. For it was this
networkological worldview that built the raw materials which mutated in Jewish
thinkers of the medieval period, and the early Christian scholastics. Reading ‘The History of Philosophy’ Symptomatically, Or,
Thoughts on a Networkological Historiography of Philosophy -
Networkologies by chris on Jan 11, 2012 6:08 AM]
[I hero worshipped Aurobindo in my college days; but
now half a century later, I am terribly disappointed. His discussion of
time and eternity is wholly derived from that of Boethius; Page after page
in Life Divine is watered down Plotinus. -Krishna
Chaitanya (Dr. K.K. Nair) 12:55 AM]
From this viewpoint,
Sri Aurobindo can be said to have preserved the original treasures of wisdom
(which the West has preferred to forget) and synthesised the same with the
Vedic pronouncements, thus presenting a truely global perspective suitable for
the modern times as well as the future. [TNM55]
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