Who has not been able to stop his mind, can only have ideas of reality, not the experience of it.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPIRIT

(Dunken, Bs. As. 2009)
The coverage of this book is an oil painting on canvas of the author.

Second Revised Edition

It represents the most luminous vertex of J. O. Lavoisier’s philosophy. It is the reflection through which his thinking surmounts the elements of universal history. The purpose of these pages lies in tracing the evolution experienced by man, not his biological evolution but the evolution of his spirit.

Darwin, Hegel, Bergon and Teilhard de Chardin are seriously inquired in order to expose the truth and the relativism contained by their theories when they postulate a philosophy of the history of the spirit. This treaty emphasizes that Darwin’s survival theory, with its wisdom and its findings, encloses man within a perspective from which the matters of the Spirit (ideals, the moral doctrine and high feelings) are dropped behind, with the serious consequences derived in the social and ecological order.

The second part of the treaty describes two Eastern doctrines through which the Spirit has managed a more natural development: Hinduism in the vision of Sri Aurobindo, and Buddhism. This work –maybe one of a kind- highlights the wide knowledge of the author about compared religions, when it comes to tracing the evolution of Buddhism in India from its beginnings, following the various springs of the Mahayana until it ends in the Cha´n (zen) in China. His thinking profile is clearly evident when contrasting the abovementioned philosophies with his own.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPIRIT

From Greece to the West, from India to the East. Har-Anand Publishers, 2017

By putting survival in a preeminent position, Darwin relegates high aspirations and elevated sentiments to the periphery, barely part of the landscape while the utilitarian aspects of life are foregrounded. This vision has had wide repercussions in an age where there is an unfortunate tendency to incline towards materialist and utilitarian philosophies. These have diffused a primordial and decisive feature in man: his spiritual evolution.

Index

From Greece to the West, from India to the East
Julio Ozán Lavoisier
Second Revised Edition. Har-Anand Publications, Delhi India

  • Preface

 

Part One: BIOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION

  1. Darwin
  2. Habilis or Sapiens

 

Part Two: THREE WESTERN THEORIES

  • 1 Hegel
  • 2 The religion of Hegel
  • 3 Hegel and my philosophy

 

  • 1 Henri Bergson
  • 2 Intuition
  • 3 Memory
  • 4 Freedom and the Absolute
  • 5 Vital Impulse and evolution
  • 6 Morals and religion
  • 7 Bergson and my philosophy

 

  • 1 Teilhard de Chardin
  • 2 The religion of Teilhard
  • 3 Commentary

 

Part Three: TWO EASTERN DOCTRINES

  • Introduction

 

  • Buddhism
  • Mahayana Buddhism
  • Mahayana schools
  • Nagarjuna
  • Yogacara
  • Asvaghosha
  • The Surangama Sutra
  • Surangama and psychosophy
  • The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
  • The Lankavatara Sutra
  • The Mahayana method
  • Buddhism Ch’an or Zen
  • Maestro Huang Po
  • Unity of Buddhism
  • Pragmatism of the Buddha
  • Atman and karma
  • Buddhism and my philosophy
  • Suffering and Happiness

 

  • Sri Aurobindo
  • Terrestrial cosmic conceptions
  • Supra terrestrial conceptions
  • Supra cosmic conceptions
  • Direct knowledge
  • The transcendental psychology of Aurobindo
  • Spiritual evolution
  • Some comparisons

 

Part Four: CONCLUSION AND ASPIRATION

  • Conclusive commentary
  • Noosphere and hominisation
  • Transcendental experience
  • Reality in the light of the theory and practice of perspectives
  • Does evolution have a destiny?
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