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
The Turn Towards Unity: Its Necessity And Dangers
The Imperfection Of Past Aggregates
The Group And The Individual
The Inadequacy Of The State Idea
Nation And Empire: Real And Political Unities
Ancient And Modern Methods Of Empire
The Creation Of The Heterogeneous Nation
The Problem Of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire
The Possibility Of a World-Empire
The United States Of Europe
The Small Free Unit And The Larger Concentrated Unity
The Ancient Cycle Of Prenational Empire Building…
The Formation Of The Nation-Unit – The Three Stages
The Possibility Of a First Step Towards International Unity – Its Enormous Difficulties
XV. Some Lines Of Fulfilment
XVI. The Problem Of Uniformity And Liberty
PART – II
Nature’s Law In Our Progress – Unity In Diversity, Law And Liberty
The Ideal Solution – A Free Grouping Of Mankind
The Drive Towards Centralisation And Uniformity
The Drive Towards Economic Centralisation
The Drive Towards Legislative And Social Centralisation And Uniformity
World-Union Or World-State
Forms Of Government
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
Bibliographical Notes