The Metaphysics of Becoming : : On the Relationship between Creativity and God in Whitehead and Supermind and Sachchidananda in Aurobindo / / Thomas Padiyath.
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 philosoph...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Process Thought ,
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Table of 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