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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.
Ontology. --- Being --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Whitehead, Alfred North, --- Ganapati Sacchidaananda, --- Ghose, Aurobindo, --- Aravinda Ghosha, --- Sri Aurobindo, --- Aurobindo, --- Shrî Aurobindo, --- Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, --- Ghosh, Sri Aurobindo, --- Ghosh, Aurobindo, --- Arobindo, --- Shri Arobindo, --- Ghosha, Aravinda, --- Ghōṣa, Aravinda, --- Aravinda Ghōṣa, --- Gkhosh, Sh. A., --- Aravinda Babu, --- Śrī Aravintar, --- Aravintar, --- Makariṣi Śrī Aravintar, --- Pakavān̲ Śrī Aravintar, --- Śrī Arabinda, --- Ganapathi Sachchidananda, --- Gaṇapati Saccidānanda, --- Ganapati Sachchidananda, --- Sacchidaananda, Ganapati, --- Saccidānanda, Gaṇapati, --- Sachchidananda, Ganapathi, --- Sachchidananda, Ganapati, --- Satyanarayana, --- 230*703 --- 230*703 Process-theology. Proces-theology. Structuralisme --- Process-theology. Proces-theology. Structuralisme --- Whitehead, Alfred North --- Creativity. --- Process. --- Sachchidananda/God.
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Mar Joseph Powathil, b. 1930, former Archbishop of Changanassery; contributed articles.
Syro-Malabar Church --- Christianity and politics --- Clergy --- Jōsaph Pavvattil, --- Syro-Malabar Church --- Syro-Malabar Church --- History. --- Liturgy --- Theology.
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The reality of Being and Becoming has always been a subject of discussion, study, and research in both the East and the West. This dissertation purports to unfold a discussion on the metaphysics of Becoming with special bearing on the question of God. More precisely, the attempt has a view to develop a dialogue between the East (which bases itself on the mystical and esoteric tradition) and the West (which bases itself on exoteric scientific analysis) with respect to metaphysical thinking by means of a comparative analysis of Whitehead’s concepts of "Creativity and God" and Aurobindo’s concepts of "Supermind and Sachchidananda." This project is developed in three parts. Part One, comprised of four chapters, discusses Whitehead. Here we focus specifically on his understanding of Becoming, God, and Creativity that, at the same time, initiates us also into the Sitz im Leben of his philosophy and his general thought pattern. Part Two is a treatise on Aurobindo’s metaphysics of Becoming ( integral advaita ) discussed in four chapters. There is special focus on his notions of Becoming, Sachchidananda, and the Supermind. Third Part undertakes a discussion of the relationship between God and Creativity and Sachchidananda and the Supermind. The relationship between God and creativity and Sachchidananda and the Supermind is very complex. Our discussions demand that we look for further reasons for the differences between Whitehead and Aurobindo by re-locating this question in a wider perspective, namely, situating this issue within the context of enlightenment and modernity and the way of doing philosophy in the West and in the East. The two thinkers can be seen as candidates with great potential for a better engagement between the West and the East. The two thinkers can be seen as candidates with great potential for a better engagement between the West and the East. The Middle Way of both Whitehead and Aurobindo points to the wisdom of the present exemplified in their philosophies: the West is reawakening to the Truth of Spirit and the East is reawakening to the Truth of Life.
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