SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT

 

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Contents

 

 

 

Pre Content

 

 

 

Post Content

 

 

 

THE HUMAN CYCLE

 

 

I

The Cycle Of Society

 

 

II

The Age Of Individualism And Reason

 

 

III

The Coming Of The Subjective Age

 

 

IV

The Discovery Of The Nation-Soul

 

 

V

True And False Subjectivism

 

 

VI

The Objective And Subjective Views Of Life

 

 

VII

The Ideal Law Of Social Development

 

 

VIII

Civilisation And Barbarism

 

 

IX

Civilisation And Culture

 

 

X

Aesthetic And Ethical Culture

 

 

XI

The Reason As Governor Of Life

 

 

XII

The Office And Limitations Of The Reason

 

 

XIII

Reason And Religion

 

 

XIV

The Suprarational Beauty

 

 

XV

The Suprarational Good

 

 

XVI

The Suprarational Ultimate Of Life

 

 

XVII

Religion As The Law Of Life

 

 

XVIII

The Infrarational Age Of The Cycle

 

 

XIX

The Curve Of The Rational Age

 

 

XX

The End Of The Curve Of Reason

 

 

XXI

The Spiritual Aim And Life

 

 

XXII

The Necessity Of The Spiritual Transformation

 

 

XXIII

Conditions For The Coming Of a Spiritual Age

 

 

XXIV

The Advent And Progress Of The Spiritual Age

 

 

 

 

 

THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY

PART - I

 

 

I

The Turn Towards Unity: Its Necessity And Dangers

 

 

II

The Imperfection Of Past Aggregates

 

 

III

The Group And The Individual

 

 

IV

The Inadequacy Of The State Idea

 

 

V

Nation And Empire: Real And Political Unities

 

 

VI

Ancient And Modern Methods Of Empire

 

 

VII

The Creation Of The Heterogeneous Nation

 

 

VIII

The Problem Of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire

 

 

IX

The Possibility Of a World-Empire

 

 

X

The United States Of Europe

 

 

XI

The Small Free Unit And The Larger Concentrated Unity

 

 

XII

The Ancient Cycle Of Prenational Empire Building...

 

 

XIII

The Formation Of The Nation-Unit – The Three Stages

 

 

XIV

The Possibility Of a First Step Towards International Unity – Its Enormous Difficulties

 

 

XV

XV. Some Lines Of Fulfilment

 

 

XVI

XVI. The Problem Of Uniformity And Liberty

 

 

 

 

PART - II

 

 

XVII

Nature's Law In Our Progress – Unity In Diversity, Law And Liberty

 

 

XVIII

The Ideal Solution – A Free Grouping Of Mankind

 

 

XIX

The Drive Towards Centralisation And Uniformity

 

 

XX

The Drive Towards Economic Centralisation

 

 

XXI

The Drive Towards Legislative And Social Centralisation And Uniformity

 

 

XXII

World-Union Or World-State

 

 

XXIII

Forms Of Government

 

 

XXIV

The Need Of Military Unification

 

 

XXV

War And The Need Of Economic Unity

 

 

XXVI

The Need Of Administrative Unity

 

 

XXVII

The Peril Of The World-State

 

 

XXVIII

Diversity In Oneness

 

 

XXIX

The Idea Of a League Of Nations

 

 

XXX

The Principle Of Free Confederation

 

 

XXXI

The Conditions Of a Free World-Union

 

 

XXXII

Internationalism

 

 

XXXIII

Internationalism And Human Unity

 

 

XXXIV

The Religion Of Humanity

 

 

XXXV

Summary And Conclusion

 

 

 

A Postscript Chapter

 

 

 

WAR AND SELF - DETERMINATION

 

 

Foreword To The First Edition

 

 

The Passing Of War?

 

 

The Unseen Power

 

 

Self-Determination

 

 

A League Of Nations

 

 

After The War

 

 

1919