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
	I	The Turn Towards Unity: Its Necessity And Dangers
	II	The Imperfection Of Past Aggregates
	III	The Group And The Individual
	IV	The Inadequacy Of The State Idea
	V	Nation And Empire: Real And Political Unities
	VI	Ancient And Modern Methods Of Empire
	VII	The Creation Of The Heterogeneous Nation
	VIII	The Problem Of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire
	IX	The Possibility Of a World-Empire
	X	The United States Of Europe
	XI	The Small Free Unit And The Larger Concentrated Unity
	XII	The Ancient Cycle Of Prenational Empire Building...
	XIII	The Formation Of The Nation-Unit – The Three Stages
	XIV	The Possibility Of a First Step Towards International Unity – Its Enormous Difficulties
	XV	XV. Some Lines Of Fulfilment
	XVI	XVI. The Problem Of Uniformity And Liberty

		PART - II
	XVII	Nature's Law In Our Progress – Unity In Diversity, Law And Liberty
	XVIII	The Ideal Solution – A Free Grouping Of Mankind
	XIX	The Drive Towards Centralisation And Uniformity
	XX	The Drive Towards Economic Centralisation
	XXI	The Drive Towards Legislative And Social Centralisation And Uniformity
	XXII	World-Union Or World-State
	XXIII	Forms Of Government
	XXIV	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

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