In this book, Professor Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi, bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of truth and non-violence, freedom and obligation, and his view of the relation between means and ends in politics.

The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

History

Iyer, Raghavan N.

Asia

Oxford Univ. Pr.

What is living and what is dead in contemporary political ideas, traditional beliefs and inherited allegiances? How may a better future be constructed from our complex past? Considering such questions, Parapolitics unveils a radical new perspective extending far beyond the pessimism of the current predicament. Raghavan Iyer moves with ease from the Greek polis to the California communes, from the psychology of self-actualization to the dynamics of social structures. He shows the critical distance needed to see clearly the costs of commitment, the limits and possibilities, in a global community. The book explores the subtle relationships between technology and politics, democracy and liberty, scarcity and abundance. Parapolitics calls for audacious diversity and dialectical skill in the responsible exercise of will and imagination. By distilling the ideas of seminal political thinkers from Socrates and Plato to Marx and Gandhi, the book provides a firm basis for a fresh vision of Civitas Humana - the City of Man.

Parapolitics: Towards the City of Man

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

In this book, first published by OUP USA in 1973, Professor Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi, bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of truth and non-violence, freedom and obligation, and his view of the relation between means and ends in politics.

Oxford University Press

In this book, Professor Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi, bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of truth and non-violence, freedom and obligation, and his view of the relation between means and ends in politics.

Bookpeople

Astrology includes many things, has many forms, and serves multiple purposes. Taking just three common examples, typical astrological charts show the positions and relations of the planets at the moment and location of birth. Progressed astrology maps the return of planets to their birth positions as well as the times and ways they cross and relate to those original positions and to one another. And horary astrology looks at the positions of the planets in the zodiac at a given moment when some decision is to be made (e.g., when to lay the foundation stone of a temple). And then there is the astrology once commonly found in newspapers, where planets were taken in conjunction with the signs of the zodiac to give general indications of what to expect for the day, given one's birth sign. This latter was never taken seriously by knowledgeable astrologers, being rather like the sentiments found in fortune cookies ending meals in Chinese restaurants. "People admire your attitude," for example, can apply to anyone's self-image, and so it "works." But such messages are random, and the newspaper's astrological messages each have to be general enough to cover about 1/12 the population, because there are 12 signs in the zodiac. There is much more to any system of astrology than the mechanisms for casting a chart or giving naïve interpretations, as, for example, Mars means conflict, Jupiter wealth or generosity, Mercury intelligence, and so on. Like all sciences, astrology is a complex of symbols and principles of interrelationships. And like all science, astrology is also based on experience and observation. In some ways, astrology is more like medical science than physics, since its variables are often multivalent and context-dependent. And like all sciences, astrology is based on assumptions about the nature of reality and the universe. It shares with all sciences the assumption that there are discoverable laws of nature that are invariant, at least over long periods of time. It shares the assumption that nature and the universe is intelligible to a reasoning, observing consciousness.

Theosophical Astrology (The Wisdom and Practice Series)

Valborg, Helen

JUDGE, WILLIAM Q.

Blavatsky, Helena P.

Philosophy

Theosophy Trust Books

Consciousness and Civilization in the Aquarian Age collects the Theosophical writings of Raghavan N. Iyer on the Aquarian Age as revised by himself. This first volume provides an overview of the ageless teachings of Theosophy on cyclic evolution, especially the demands of the current Aquarian Age, lasting some 2060 years, and on the nature of deity, the septenary composition of Nature and the human being, the process of involution and evolution and the role of Man, the immortal soul, in both cosmic and human unfoldment, focusing on consciousness and self-consciousness at every level. Practical advice allows the aspiring reader to deepen his or her levels of awareness of self and the world.

CONSCIOUSNESS AND CIVILIZATION IN THE AQUARIAN AGE (The Aquarian Series)

Los principios centrales de la Theosophia no se derivan de ningunasecta antigua o moderna, sino que representan la sabiduría acumuladade los siglos, la herencia no registrada de la humanidad. Su vastoesquema de evolución cósmica y humana proporciona a todos elalfabeto simbólico necesario para interpretar sus visiones recurrentes,así como el marco universal y el vocabulario metafísico, extraídosde muchos místicos y videntes, que les permiten comunicar suspropias percepciones intuitivas. Todos los escritos místicos auténticosse enriquecen con el sabor alquímico del pensamiento Teosófico.La Teosofía es un sistema integrado de verdades fundamentalesenseñadas por Iniciados y Adeptos a lo largo de milenios. Es laPhilosophia Perennis, la filosofía de la perfección humana, la ciencia de laespiritualidad y la religión de la responsabilidad. Es la fuente primitivade innumerables sistemas religiosos, así como la esencia oculta y lasabiduría esotérica de cada uno. El hombre, una mónada inmortal,ha podido preservar esta herencia sagrada a través de los esfuerzossacrificiales de individuos iluminados y compasivos, o Bodhisattvas,que constituyen una antigua Hermandad. Ayudan silenciosamente enla evolución ética y el desarrollo espiritual de toda la humanidad. LaTheosophia es la Sabiduría Divina, transmitida y verificada duranteeones por los sabios que pertenecen a esta Hermandad secreta.

EVOLUCIÓN ESPIRITUAL: Regenerar la mente y despertar el alma

los principios centrales de la Theosophia no se derivan de ningunasecta antigua o moderna, sino que representan la sabiduría acumuladade los siglos, la herencia no registrada de la humanidad. Su vastoesquema de evolución cósmica y humana proporciona a todos elalfabeto simbólico necesario para interpretar sus visiones recurrentes,así como el marco universal y el vocabulario metafísico, extraídos demuchos místicos y videntes, que les permiten comunicar sus propiaspercepciones intuitivas. Todos los escritos místicos auténticos seenriquecen con el sabor alquímico del pensamiento Teosófico.la teosofía es un sistema integrado de verdades fundamentalesenseñadas por Iniciados y Adeptos a lo largo de milenios. Es laPhilosophia Perennis, la filosofía de la perfección humana, la ciencia de laespiritualidad y la religión de la responsabilidad. Es la fuente primitivade innumerables sistemas religiosos, así como la esencia oculta y lasabiduría esotérica de cada uno. El hombre, una mónada inmortal,ha podido preservar esta herencia sagrada a través de los esfuerzossacrificiales de individuos iluminados y compasivos, o Bodhisattvas,que constituyen una antigua Hermandad. Ayudan silenciosamente enla evolución ética y el desarrollo espiritual de toda la humanidad. LaTheosophia es la Sabiduría Divina, transmitida y verificada duranteeones por los sabios que pertenecen a esta Hermandad secreta.

EVOLUCIÓN ESPIRITUAL: Regenerar la mente y despertar el alma (Spanish Edition)

The Mysteries Of Karma: The Universal Current in Evolution (The Aquarian Series)

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The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

Parapolitics: Towards the City of Man

Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

Theosophical Astrology (The Wisdom and Practice Series)

CONSCIOUSNESS AND CIVILIZATION IN THE AQUARIAN AGE (The Aquarian Series)

EVOLUCIÓN ESPIRITUAL: Regenerar la mente y despertar el alma

EVOLUCIÓN ESPIRITUAL: Regenerar la mente y despertar el alma (Spanish Edition)

The Mysteries Of Karma: The Universal Current in Evolution (The Aquarian Series)