A.S. Dalal passes away

 Dr. A.S. Dalal (Abdulhusein Suleimani Dalal), one of the foremost exponents of Yogic / Integral psychology of Sri Aurobindo reached the feet of Divine Mother today early morning. Om Shanti

His compilations "Living Within", "Looking from Within", etc., transformed thousands.

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Oh! Will forever remember "Living Within". 

How can I forget it? That book was THE major turning point in my life alongwith another compilation from Sri Aurobindo & Mother on Love. The book that answered the burning question of my life at that time & drew me to Them.

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Om Shanti! His compilation on The Psychic Being was one of the first books I purchased from SABDA. He made reading Their works so accessible. I'm grateful for all his work!

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Dr.A S Dalal ( 100+) passed away early this morning in Ashram Nursing home. Every compilation speaks of the Mother's force arranging the topics for both the common readers and intellectuals. A great service to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother! 

Dr.A S Dalal passed away today.

He was born in Tanzania in 1926, Dr. Dalal first visited  Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry in 1950. He became an official ashramite in 1952.

He later went to the United States, where he pursued a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and practised psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for over two decades before permanently returning to Pondicherry in 1986.

He is widely recognized for his extensive work integrating modern clinical psychological thought with Sri Aurobindo's yogic concepts. He authored and compiled numerous famous books, such as A Greater Psychology, Our Many Selves, and Living Within. - GG

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Why leaves change color and how we become who we are – the science of chlorophyll (which is still a mystery) and the poetics of personhood (which is always a mystery)

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"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance." 

James Baldwin's advice on writing:

https://x.com/brainpickings/status/2105481594957971683

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination”

Hear Mary Oliver, in her lovely time-rasped voice, read one of the greatest poems ever written:

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Moonlight and the magic of the unnecessary

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How to be a lichen — adaptive strategies for the vulnerabilities of being human from nature’s tiny titans of resilience

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How to be more alive — the samurai guide to dying every day

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How not to waste your life

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What happens when we die

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In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college

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"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."

René Magritte on the courage of joy:

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#birddivination of the week. Find it among the original series of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org

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When a young friend was dangerously dancing with the darkness, Galway Kinnell wrote him this poem. It saved his life.

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C.S. Lewis on how to structure the days of a creative life and train the receptive imagination

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There are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself regularly in the path of wonder and getting out of your own way in order to receive what you encounter there.

Wonder, like enchantment, is not something you can control or plan for or will — it is something that befalls you, overcomes you, pours upon you spontaneous and unbidden. Paradoxically, what makes such spontaneity possible is structure — an organizing principle for the hours of the day that makes room, and reserves it, for these moments of magic. This is not simple to configure and not easy to enact: How to spend our hours and shape our days may be the supreme problem of human life. There is no permanent, perfect, or universal solution, for the problem is laced with our particularity — but we can learn from each other, borrow bits and pieces from various approaches, constellate a singular organizing principle from different points of light.

Among the finest I have encountered, in being both pragmatic and profound, is the one C.S. Lewis (November 29, 1898–November 22, 1963) offers in his memoir Surprised by Joy (public library).

https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/29/c-s-lewis-schedule/

How to have enough – Wendell Berry on creativity and love

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A #birddivination for the long horizons of love. See more and the story behind them at almanacofbirds.org

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“Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?

A: Reading.” David Bowie answers the Proust Questionnaire

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Nick Cave on the two pillars of a meaningful life

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Orcas and the price of consciousness – lessons in love and loss from Earth's most successful and creative hunter

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Bertrand Russell, who lived nearly a century through two world wars and received the Nobel Prize, on the secret of happiness

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"In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious)."

George Saunders on how to love the world more themarginalian.org/2023/04/09/geo…

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There Was a Shadow – a lyrical illustrated celebration of the changing light, in the world and in the inner world

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Your life will thank you for this: How to live and how to die

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How to stop waiting and start living – a classic jolt from Henry James (to be revisited approximately once a month for best results, in my experience)

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The weasel and the meaning of it all – Annie Dillard on how to live

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If you feel like you are waiting to start living, this catalytic poem is for you:

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You know it. The pleasure of being left alone

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Hermann Hesse on discovering the soul beneath the self and the key to finding peace

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At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in one place – how to speak forest, a field guide to falling in love better, and a live celebration of wonder: mailchi.mp/themarginalian…

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Romanticizing intertwined trees as "embracing" is a lovely metaphor, but it might obscure the actual competitive biology underneath. Is the goal wonder or accuracy?

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Nietzsche on how to find yourself and the true purpose of education

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Thin Slices of Anxiety – an illustrated meditation on what it's like to live enslaved by worry and how to break free

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How to handle a narcissistic and abusive parent – Kafka's remarkable letter to his father

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Nature is always listening — the wondrous science of how mushrooms respond to music

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Auden on writing, enchantment, belief vs. doubt, and the most important principle of creative work

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Albert Camus on how to live whole in a broken world

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How to speak forest

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On change and denial:

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The pain in you and the God in you – Carl Jung on the relationship between psychological suffering and creativity

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The 100 milliseconds between you and the world – Oliver Sacks on perception

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Nobel laureate Elias Canetti on grieving a parent, grieving the world, and what makes life worth living

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"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life." Nietzsche on how to find yourself:

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There is always an abyss between us, between one consciousness and another, but there is also a light in the abyss that can change us

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Love anyway

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The donkey and the meaning of life

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James Baldwin on love, the illusion of choice, and the paradox of freedom

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The building blocks of intimacy – bell hooks on language and desire

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How to fall in love better – a field guide to enlightened enchantment

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Meet the woman who mapped Labrador and revolutionized the literature of exploration

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Emerson on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means

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Poetic ecology and the biology of wonder

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Your life, lived – some of the finest advice on the art of growing older

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A Stoic's key to peace of mind – Seneca's timeless antidote to anxiety

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The 3 elements of the good life

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Robert Louis Stevenson on falling in love and loving beyond the fall

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How to be a poet – Elizabeth Alexander on the yin-yang of connection and contradiction

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John Coltrane, born 100 years ago today, on creativity, perseverance against rejection, and how hardship fuels art

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"There was perfect trust between us, a source of joy to me, and it must have been a comfort to him. Perhaps birds understand more than we think." What a blackbird taught a lonely man about friendship

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Dostoyevsky, just after his death sentence was repealed, on the meaning of life

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"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."

Baldwin's timeless advice on writing:

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How to hold the darkness – notes on living through uncertainty

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James Baldwin on the relationship between creativity and integrity

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Autumn Light – Pico Iyer on finding beauty in impermanence and luminosity in loss

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A beginning, not a decline – Colette on the splendor of autumn and the autumn of life

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A recipe for thriving through change. Find this #birddivination among the 100 in the original deck, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org

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Born on this day in 1711, Thomas Wright was the first to describe the spiral shape of the Milky Way and to dare imagine the existence of other galaxies. His stunning celestial art epochs ahead of astronomy:

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Dorothy Lathrop's dreamscapes – haunting century-old illustrations for French fairy stories by the woman who became the first artist to win the Caldecott Medal, the Nobel Prize of children's books

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The science of waiting and the art of delay

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Born on this day in 1791, Michael Faraday gave us the electromagnetism without which none of the modern world could function. His abiding wisdom on mental discipline and how to cure our preconceptions:

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Albert Camus on how to live whole in a broken world

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"Words belong to each other."

Hear the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice – not what I imagined! – reading her timeless love letter to language:

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Random pages of found books, remixed into poems: themarginalian.org/2025/12/07/lit…

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It is amazing that this exists: Hear Tolkien read from The Hobbit (published on this day in 1937) in rare audio from his first encounter with a tape recorder

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James Baldwin on how to live through your darkest hour

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“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination”

Hear Mary Oliver, in her lovely time-rasped voice, read one of the greatest poems ever written:

https://x.com/brainpickings/status/2102183596458938688

The courage to be yourself – Virginia Woolf on how to hear your soul

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When Einstein met Tagore – a remarkable meeting of Nobel-winning minds at the intersection of East and West, spirituality and science

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Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

What constitutes a mental act?

 While Franz Brentano and F.W.H. Myers belonged to different intellectual traditions—Brentano leading the Austro-German school of descriptive psychology and intentionality, and Myers anchoring the British Society for Psychical Research (SPR)—there is a fascinating conceptual resonance between them. Both were writing in the late 19th century, fighting against the dominant reductionist, physiological psychology of their era. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Their intellectual overlap centers on three core pillars:

1. The Anti-Reductionist Unity of Mind

• Franz Brentano: In his landmark 1874 work Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, Brentano vehemently rejected the materialist attempts of contemporaries like Wilhelm Wundt to break the mind down into physiological parts or chemical-like sensory components. He argued that psychology is the science of psychic phenomena (acts of consciousness) which exist as an inseparable, intentional unity. [6, 7, 8]
• F.W.H. Myers: Similarly, Myers strongly opposed the materialist view that the mind is merely an accidental epiphenomenon of the brain. Through his masterwork, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, he argued for an expansive view of consciousness that could not be reduced to biological wiring. [4, 9]

2. The Debate Over the "Unconscious" vs. the "Subliminal"

One of their most vibrant points of comparative resonance is how they mapped the hidden landscape of the mind, taking entirely opposite but structurally related paths:

• Brentano’s Rejection of the Unconscious: Brentano famously denied the existence of truly unconscious mental states. He claimed that all mental acts are conscious because they are accompanied by a secondary "inner perception". If you think, you are always implicitly aware that you are thinking. [10, 11]
• Myers’s Subliminal Self: Myers, by contrast, became the great cartographer of the unconscious, coining the term "subliminal self". He argued that our normal waking consciousness is only a small portion of a much larger spectrum. [4, 9]
• The Resonance: Even though Brentano restricted the "psychic" to the consciously intentional and Myers expanded it deeply into the subliminal, both were wrestling with the exact same threshold problem: What constitutes a mental act, and how far do its boundaries stretch beyond immediate sensory attention?

3. The Ultimate Horizon: The Immortality of the Soul

• Brentano: Despite his empirical framework, Brentano was deeply preoccupied with philosophical theology. He spent considerable effort crafting philosophical arguments regarding God and the immortality of the soul, anchoring survival in the non-physical, enduring nature of intentional mental acts. [12, 13]
• Myers: Myers approached the exact same goal but through an empirical/psychical methodology. He wanted to use the scientific method—documenting phenomena like telepathy (a term he invented) and automatic writing—to empirically prove the survival of human personality after death. [3, 4, 9, 14]

The Bridge: William James

The explicit historical bridge between them was William James. James was a close friend and collaborator of Myers in the SPR, and he was also deeply influenced by Brentano's concept of intentionality and act psychology. Through James, the ideas of Brentano's rigorous European descriptive psychology and Myers's British psychical exploration frequently cross-pollinated in the broader global dialogue on the nature of consciousness.

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Would you like to explore how William James specifically synthesized their views, or perhaps look closer at Brentano's specific arguments for the immortality of the soul?

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- GoogleAI 

Yes, Josiah Royce’s disagreements with William James continue to be highly valid and actively debated in contemporary philosophy. While James’s open-ended pragmatism historically overshadowed Royce’s absolute idealism, modern scholars increasingly recognize that Royce’s critiques exposed deep vulnerabilities in James's thought—particularly regarding truth, social isolation, and ethics. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Their legendary intellectual rivalry, affectionately known as "The Battle of the Absolute," remains a foundational touchstone for understanding the trade-offs of American philosophy. [2, 6]

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The 3 Core Disagreements and Their Modern Validity

1. The Epistemological Dilemma: The Problem of Error vs. "Cash-Value"

• The Debate: James argued that the truth of an idea is determined by its practical "cash-value"—how well it works when put into action. Royce countered with his famous "Argument from Error." He pointed out that to even define an "error," there must be a permanent, objective standard of truth against which that error is measured. If truth is entirely provisional and individualistic, "error" becomes meaningless. [7, 8]
• Why it's valid today: In our contemporary "post-truth" era, characterized by fragmented digital ecosystems and "alternative facts," James’s fluid definition of truth faces intense scrutiny. Thinkers find Royce's insistence on an overarching structure of objective reality more necessary than ever to guard against total solipsism and epistemic relativism. [7]

2. The Social Dilemma: Individualism vs. The Beloved Community

• The Debate: In The Varieties of Religious Experience, James focused almost exclusively on private, individual psychological encounters with the divine or the sublime. Royce forcefully argued in The Problem of Christianity that this individualistic approach was inadequate. He insisted that meaningful spiritual, moral, and psychological healing can only happen through a "Beloved Community" rooted in shared loyalty. [2, 3, 9, 10, 11]
• Why it's valid today: Modern sociology and political philosophy frequently critique the hyper-individualism of Western culture, which often leaves people feeling alienated and lonely. Royce's communitarian philosophy—which he eventually evolved into a form of "Absolute Pragmatism" utilizing semiotics—is highly relevant to current debates on how to rebuild social trust and civic solidarity. [2, 12]

3. The Moral Dilemma: The Multi-verse vs. A Meaningful Whole

• The Debate: James championed a "pluralistic universe" (a multi-verse) characterized by loose joints, randomness, and unresolved evil. He mocked Royce’s "Absolute" as an artificial way of explaining away genuine human suffering. Royce countered that a completely disjointed universe strips human effort of ultimate meaning. He argued that our finite struggles and moral choices only matter because they contribute to a larger, unified cosmic purpose. [5, 13, 14, 15]
• Why it's valid today: This clash directly mirrors modern tensions in existentialism and the philosophy of mind. While James speaks to the modern embrace of chaos and individual freedom, Royce addresses the deep human need for a holistic framework that ensures our moral actions echo beyond our fleeting, individual lives. [11, 12]

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Direct Comparison: James vs. Royce

Philosophical Core	William James	Josiah Royce	Modern Philosophical Relevance
Metaphysics	Pluralism & Radical Empiricism (The Multi-verse)	Absolute Idealism (The All-Encompassing Whole)	Debates over cosmic meaning vs. pure physical random chaos.
Truth Criterion	Practical "Cash-Value" & Utility	Systematic coherence & the possibility of error	Combating misinformation and epistemic relativism.
Ethical Focus	Individual agency, heroism, and willpower	Loyalty to a cause and communal interpretation	Rebuilding social institutions and local communities.

Ultimately, while the mid-20th century largely dismissed Royce as an outdated idealist, 21st-century philosophy has seen a major revival of his work. His dialogue with James is no longer viewed as a battle won by pragmatism, but as an ongoing, unresolved conversation about the very nature of truth and community. [1, 2, 4]

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If you want to dive deeper into this historical debate, let me know if you would like to explore:

• Royce's specific "Argument from Error" logic
• How Charles Peirce's semiotics helped Royce bridge the gap between idealism and pragmatism
• The personal letters and anecdotes from their Harvard years as neighbors [6, 13, 16, 17]

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- GoogleAI 

Yes, American idealist Josiah Royce did heavily anticipate Emmanuel Levinas through his early formulation of the "Moral Insight". Your second thought is also correct: Martin Buber is indeed the central figure famously linked with Levinas in 20th-century dialogical philosophy and the "philosophy of the Other". [1, 2, 3, 4]

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How Josiah Royce Anticipated Levinas

In his 1885 breakthrough work, The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, Josiah Royce introduced a concept he called "The Moral Insight." Decades before Levinas wrote his masterpieces, Royce laid down a framework that sounds strikingly Levinasian: [1]

• The Reality of the Other: Royce argued that our primary moral failure is "relational blindness"—treating other people not as true, living consciousnesses, but as mere scenery or instruments for our own plans. [5]
• The Ethical Realization: The moment of "Moral Insight" happens when you suddenly realize that the person next to you is just as real as you are, possessing their own hidden depths, sufferings, and joys.
• Overcoming the Ego: Like Levinas's argument that the "Other" shatters the ego's totalizing grip, Royce wrote: "What is thy neighbor? He is a mass of states, of needs, of desires... Have I do with such a one? Thou hast. He is as real as thou. That is the moral insight." [6, 7]

While Royce eventually embedded this insight into a larger system of Absolute Idealism and the "Universal Community", his early ethics directly paved the way for continental philosophies of alterity (otherness). [1, 8]

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The Connection to Martin Buber

Martin Buber is the primary "person" associated with this lineage of thought. Buber and Levinas are the twin titans of 20th-century dialogical philosophy, though they arrived at different conclusions regarding how we meet the Other: [4, 9]

Philosopher	Core Relationship Concept	Key Characteristic
Martin Buber	I-Thou (Ich und Du)	Reciprocal & Symmetrical: A horizontal encounter where two wholes meet each other in mutual recognition.
Emmanuel Levinas	The Face-to-Face	Asymmetrical & Vertical: The Other is higher than me and places an absolute ethical demand on me before I can expect anything in return.

Levinas deeply respected Buber but famously critiqued his "I-Thou" concept, claiming it was too cozy, friendly, and symmetrical. For Levinas, the Other is a stranger who judges us and commands our radical responsibility—a stance that mirrors the gravity found in Royce's moral imperative. [3, 10, 11, 12]

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If you want to map out these philosophical overlaps further, tell me:

• Should we dive deeper into how Levinas critiqued Buber's I-Thou?
• Are you looking to trace how Royce's ideas traveled to Europe (like through Gabriel Marcel)?
• Do you need this for a comparative essay or personal research? [13]

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[12] https://jsr.shanti.virginia.edu

[13] https://journals.sagepub.com

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There is a meaning in each curve and line.” This thought from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri has remained deeply connected to the way I think about architecture.

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From a nation-building perspective, the humanities are just as important as the sciences. Literature, philosophy, history, sociology, psychology & the arts define national identity and shape govt policy for you. Dismissing the importance of the arts is a good indicator of someone being culturally underdeveloped. At the end of the day, science is just an abstract tool in the hands of an arts graduate. The operator is just as important as the tool. 

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• David Hume - ‘Of the Standard of Taste’ (1757)

• Edmund Burke - ‘On Taste’ (1759)

• Immanuel Kant - ‘Critique of Judgement’ (1790)

• GWF Hegel - ‘Lectures on Aesthetics’ (1835)

• John Ruskin - ‘The Lamp of Memory’ (1849)

• John Ruskin - ‘The Nature of Gothic’ (1853)

• Charles Baudelaire - ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ (1863)

• Friedrich Nietzsche - ‘On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life’ (1874)

• William Morris - ‘The Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation’ (1881)

• Filippo Marinetti - ‘The Futurist Manifesto’ (1909)

• Adolf Loos - ‘Ornament and Crime’ (1913)

• Le Corbusier - ‘Toward an Architecture’ (1923) *especially the chapters ‘The Engineer’s Aesthetic and Architecture’ & ‘Eyes Which Do Not See’*

• Walter Gropius - ‘The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus’ (1923)

• Lewis Mumford - ‘Assimilation of the Machine’ in ‘Technics and Civilisation’ (1934)

• Walter Benjamin - ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (1936) *particularly the final third*

• Clement Greenberg - ‘Avant-Garde and Kitsch’ (1939)

• Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer - ‘The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’ (1944)

• Meyer Schapiro - ‘Style’ (1953)

• Martin Heidegger - ‘The Question Concerning Technology’ (1954)

• Reyner Banham - ‘The Machine Aesthetic’ (1955) *also the book ‘Theory and Design in the First Machine Age’ (1960) for broader history of early modernist architecture*

• Reyner Banham - ‘The New Brutalism’ (1955)

• Jane Jacobs - ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’ (1961) *haven’t personally read this but canon*

• George Kubler - ‘The Shape of Time’ (1962) *one of my favourites*

• Robert Venturi - ‘Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture’ (1966)

• E. H. Gombrich - ‘Style’ (1968)

• Manfredo Tafuri - ‘Architecture and Utopia’ (1973)

• Susan Sontag - ‘Fascinating Fascism’ (1975)

• Pierre Bourdieu - ‘Distinction’ (1979)

• Fredric Jameson - ‘Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’ (1984) *the essay not the book, especially parts on pastiche and nostalgia*

• Marc Auge - ‘Non-Places’ (1992)

• Umberto Eco - ‘Ur-Fascism’ (1995)

• Rem Koolhaas - ‘The Generic City’ (1995)

• Elaine Scarry - ‘On Beauty and Being Just’ (1999)

• Arthur Danto - ‘The Abuse of Beauty’ (2002)

• Rem Koolhaas - ‘Junkspace’ (2001)

• Svetlana Boym - ‘Nostalgia and Its Discontents’ (2007) *also her book ‘The Future of Nostalgia’ (2001)*

• Mark Fisher - ‘The Slow Cancellation of the Future’ (2014)

• Byung-Chul Han - ‘The Saving of Beauty’ (2015)

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• Bharata Muni - Nāṭyaśāstra, especially the chapters on rasa (~200 BCE–200 CE) 

• Abhinavagupta - selections from the Abhinavabhāratī on rasa (~10th–11th c.) 

• Sei Shōnagon - The Pillow Book (~1002) 

• Okakura Kakuzō - The Book of Tea (1906) 

• Rabindranath Tagore - “What Is Art?” in Personality (1917) 

• W.E.B. Du Bois - “Criteria of Negro Art” (1926) 

• Jun’ichirō Tanizaki - In Praise of Shadows (1933) 

• Zora Neale Hurston - “Characteristics of Negro Expression” (1934) 

• Ananda Coomaraswamy - The Transformation of Nature in Art (1934) 

• Frantz Fanon - “On National Culture” in The Wretched of the Earth (1961) 

• Audre Lorde - “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1977) + “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” (1978) 

• Wole Soyinka - Myth, Literature and the African World (1976) 

• Alice Walker - “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1983) 

• Édouard Glissant - Poetics of Relation (1990) 

• bell hooks - Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (1995) 

• Nkiru Nzegwu - “Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality” (2000s) 

• Yuriko Saito - Everyday Aesthetics (2007) 

• Tina M. Campt - Listening to Images (2017) 

• Anne Anlin Cheng - Ornamentalism (2019) 

• Yuk Hui - Art and Cosmotechnics (2021)

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Excellent list. Also probably worth including is work of Sri Aurobindo, who also had a very profundly universal, a very metaphysical view of the Arts and the creative process.

https://incarnateword.in/compilations/toc/sri-aurobindo-on-art

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Distilled Summary

Part I: The Metaphysics and Purpose of Art

A. The Spiritual Function and Essence of Art

B. The Hierarchy of Art’s Value

C. Art as an Index of the Age

Part II: The Artist and the Creative Process

A. The Divine as the Supreme Artist

B. The Human Artist: Ego vs. Divine Service

C. The Role of Intuition in Creation

D. Art as Interpretation, Not Imitation of Nature

E. The Place of Technique

Part III: The Spirit and Method of Indian Art

A. Foundational Principles: Inner Vision vs. Outer Form

B. Indian Architecture: The Expression of the Infinite

C. Indian Sculpture: Embodying the Spirit in Form

D. Indian Painting: The Revelation of the Psychic and Spiritual

E. The Renaissance of Indian Art