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The Metaphysics of Becoming : On the Relationship between Creativity and God in Whitehead and Supermind and Sachchidananda in Aurobindo / Thomas Padiyath.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Process Thought ; 25Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (437 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110342550
  • 9783110374612
  • 9783110342772
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  • B
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Appreciation -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Part One: Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Becoming -- 1. Metaphysics of Becoming: Setting the Context -- 2. Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Indefinite Pluralities in Becoming -- 3. Creativity: The Raison d’être of Becoming -- 4. God and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- Part Two: Aurobindo’s Integral Advaita and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 5. Integral Advaita: Its Place within the Indian Philosophical Tradition -- 6. Integral Advaita: A Metaphysics of Becoming -- 7. Sachchidananda and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 8. The Supermind: The Raison d’être of Becoming -- Part Three: On the Relationship between Creativity and God and Supermind and Sachchidananda -- 9. On the Relationship between God and Creativity in Whitehead and Sachchidananda and Supermind in Aurobindo -- 10. Toward an East-West Intermediation in the Metaphysics of Becoming in the Context of the Distinction between Metaphysics and Religion -- 11. General Conclusion -- References
Summary: This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking. In discussing Whitehead’s and Aurobindo’s views on being and becoming, it seeks the possibility of a better engagement between the East and the West in the light of the philosophical insights. It is an initiation into the Sitz im Leben of Whitehead’s philosophy and his general thought pattern. It carries a perceptive analysis to show the clear primacy of Becoming or Process in Whitehead that extends even to the Divine. It also highlights Aurobindo as a unique Indian Philosopher, who articulated Indian thought in Western categories. He was able to integrate the evolutionary theory of the West with the Indian understanding of becoming. The relationship between God and Creativity and Sachchidananda and the Supermind is studied within the context of Enlightenment and Modernity and the way of doing philosophy in the West and in the East.
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Appreciation -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Part One: Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Becoming -- 1. Metaphysics of Becoming: Setting the Context -- 2. Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Indefinite Pluralities in Becoming -- 3. Creativity: The Raison d’être of Becoming -- 4. God and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- Part Two: Aurobindo’s Integral Advaita and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 5. Integral Advaita: Its Place within the Indian Philosophical Tradition -- 6. Integral Advaita: A Metaphysics of Becoming -- 7. Sachchidananda and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 8. The Supermind: The Raison d’être of Becoming -- Part Three: On the Relationship between Creativity and God and Supermind and Sachchidananda -- 9. On the Relationship between God and Creativity in Whitehead and Sachchidananda and Supermind in Aurobindo -- 10. Toward an East-West Intermediation in the Metaphysics of Becoming in the Context of the Distinction between Metaphysics and Religion -- 11. General Conclusion -- References

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This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking. In discussing Whitehead’s and Aurobindo’s views on being and becoming, it seeks the possibility of a better engagement between the East and the West in the light of the philosophical insights. It is an initiation into the Sitz im Leben of Whitehead’s philosophy and his general thought pattern. It carries a perceptive analysis to show the clear primacy of Becoming or Process in Whitehead that extends even to the Divine. It also highlights Aurobindo as a unique Indian Philosopher, who articulated Indian thought in Western categories. He was able to integrate the evolutionary theory of the West with the Indian understanding of becoming. The relationship between God and Creativity and Sachchidananda and the Supermind is studied within the context of Enlightenment and Modernity and the way of doing philosophy in the West and in the East.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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