By Thomas Padiyath
This research makes an attempt to explain a potential assembly aspect of the traditions of jap and Western metaphysical considering. In discussing Whitehead’s and Aurobindo’s perspectives on being and changing into, it seeks the potential for a greater engagement among the East and the West within the mild of the philosophical insights.
It is an initiation into the Sitz im Leben of Whitehead’s philosophy and his basic proposal trend. It contains a perceptive research to teach the transparent primacy of changing into or approach in Whitehead that extends even to the Divine.
It additionally highlights Aurobindo as a distinct Indian thinker, who articulated Indian idea in Western different types. He was once capable of combine the evolutionary thought of the West with the Indian knowing of changing into. the connection among God and Creativity and Sachchidananda and the Supermind is studied in the context of Enlightenment and Modernity and how of doing philosophy within the West and within the East.
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