Dialectic Spiritualism | VIII Evolutionary Naturalism | Samuel Alexander (1859-1938)
Syamasundara dasa: Alexander is the philosopher of emergent evolution. For him, external objects have an…
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Dialectic Spiritualism | VIII Evolutionary Naturalism | Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Hayagriva dasa: Bergson maintained that God’s reality can be intuited only by mystical experience. The…
Dialectic Spiritualism | VIII Evolutionary Naturalism | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Hayagriva dasa: Huxley felt that the main difference between man and the animals is the…
Dialectic Spiritualism | VIII Evolutionary Naturalism | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Hayagriva dasa: Darwin’s conception of evolution rests on the premise that there is a real…
Dialectic Spiritualism | VII German Idealism | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Hayagriva dasa: For Schopenhauer, happiness is inactive satisfaction, inactivity, nirvarya. Since the will to live…
Dialectic Spiritualism | VII German Idealism | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Syamasundara dasa: Hegel sought to synthesize other philosophies to arrive at the truth, and in…
Dialectic Spiritualism | VII German Idealism | Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)
Hayagriva dasa: Fichte is not as important as Kant or Hegel, but he is in…
Dialectic Spiritualism | VII German Idealism | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Syamasundara dasa: In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant asks the fundamental question, “How are a…
Dialectic Spiritualism | VI British Empiricism | David Hume (1711-1776)
Hayagriva dasa: Abstract objects, relations, space, time, and matter are all considered by Hume to…
Dialectic Spiritualism | VI British Empiricism | George Berkeley (1685-1753)
Hayagriva dasa: Berkeley seems to argue against objective reality. For instance, three men standing in…