Sisir Kumar Maitra

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Sisir Kumar Maitra (born 19 January 1887,

Western philosophers
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Life

Maitra was born into a Brahmin[

Ravenshaw Colleges - was very liberal in his views on social and religious matters, young Sisir was brought up free from social and religious orthodoxy. Maitra snr was also a great admirer of Rabindranath Tagore, and this was part of the intellectual atmosphere in which Sisir and his siblings lived.[citation needed
]

In his college days he was for a short time a great admirer of

Hegel. His faith in the supremacy of reason was shaken by the philosophy of Henri Bergson, to which he devoted several years of study. Later he discovered Sri Aurobindo, and in a number of books and essays helped popularise the vision of Sri Aurobindo among philosophical circles both in India and abroad, writing strictly from an academic philosophical point of view. The other philosopher who made a large influence on his mature thought was Nicolai Hartmann.[citation needed
]

Bibliography

List of books and some articles

Meeting of East and West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy

This work is a comprehensive introduction to Sri Aurobindo's philosophy in the context of mainstream academia. In contrast to other students of Sri Aurobindo, Maitra argues that western philosophical thought is essential if one is to understand the voluminous writings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

Contents:
1. The Meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy (first appeared in
The Advent
November 1951, February, April, and August 1952)
2. Sri Aurobindo and
Bergson (first appeared in Sri Aurobindo Mandir
1942)
3. Sri Aurobindo and the 1944)
4. Is Sri Aurobindo a Mystic? (first appeared in
The Advent
August 1946)
5. Sri Aurobindo and Plotinus (first appeared in Sri Aurobindo Mandir 1947)
6. Sri Aurobindo and Nicolai Hartmann (first appeared in Sri Aurobindo Mandir 1945)
7. Sri Aurobindo and
Hegel (first appeared in Sri Aurobindo Mandir
1946)
8. Sri Aurobindo and Plato (first appeared in Sri Aurobindo Mandir 1950)
9. Sri Aurobindo's Vision of the Future (first appeared in Sri Aurobindo Mandir 1951)
10. Sri Aurobindo and
Goethe (first appeared in Sri Aurobindo Mandir
1952)
11. Sri Aurobindo and Whitehead (first appeared in Sri Aurobindo Mandir 1955)

References

External links

  • Extract of his intellectual autobiography contained in the article, "Emerging Theory of Values".
  • Extract from Meeting of East and West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy at [1] and [2]