– But let the mystery of this world be a mystery. But I keep with them nevertheless, since they are originators of important impulses in thinking evolution spiritually. And Teilhard is to closed in his limited Christian framework. We stress this so explicitly at the beginning, since all three have not done that! Those following the Eastern approach (Aurobindo and Wilber) think that they have direct mystical revelations about ultimate truth. ‘love of wisdom - philosophy’ in contrast to ‘theosophy – knowledge about God’). This approach to truth, aiming for it, but knowing that man does never find absolute truth, has become the master approach in philosophy (i.e. But ultimately, we think, it is best to stay with methodological agnosticism. Of course, it sounds a little bit like a contradiction: the aim of this paper is to try to shed some light on the question of origin (and destiny) of this world. Most important for a modern enlightenment philosophical approach in this matter is the ‘agnosticism rule’. This since our three ‘heroes of evolution’ come from different cultures (East and West) and are imbedded in different religions (Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity). Like this, they distinguish themselves from standard evolutionary theories, which are materialistic and mostly mechanistic, and seen from an integral perspective – reductionistic and thus have lost the spiritual candle.īut what is important, too, is that we keep some rules of thumb in mind about intercultural communication. The special stress of this paper lies on theories of evolution, which are spiritual, too. Central for a present-day cosmogony is the theory of evolution. The greatest, vastest, and most difficult of all cosmic problems is that of the origin and development of the world – the ‘question of creation’, in a word (Reddy, 2004: 28). Perhaps the greatest and the most universal of the problems which have infrigued the mind of man are those which deal with his own place in the world in which he lives. A Critical Assesment of Teilhard de Chardin’s and Sri Aurobindo’s Theories of Evolution An Alternative View of Holism and Integral Thinking – Elmar Holenstein The Big Picture – The Evolutionary Process according to Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin Critique of Superstitious Illuminations (Continued) and Alternatives To Close with Wilber – Wilber and Aurobindo in Comparison Wilber’s Synthesis of Stages of Moral Development The Pattern that Connects the Web of Life Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision – A Holarchy
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |