Integral vision and mental transformation of man in the historiosophical constructions of Sri Aurobindo and Satprem

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of evolutionary and transformational constructions in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and his student and interpreter Satprem. Sri Aurobindo's historiosophical conception is most fully developed in his book “The Human Cycle”. In this work, the thinker substantiates the idea of ​​a fundamental change of mental-historical paradigms, which, in his opinion, begins in the first half of the 20th century. It ends with what he considered the dominant trend of recent centuries. This trend coincided with the unconditional dominance of Europe on the world stage, he called this time the Age of Individualism and Reason. The coming of the next, Subjective Time for Sri Aurobindo is inevitably associated with the awakening of Asia and the East, for which the inner, subjective vision has never been completely out of date. Sri Aurobindo writes about the coming of the Subjective Time, in which the human soul awakens and comes to the fore not only in the individual but also in entire communities. He describes the various signs of the Subjective Age - a revolutionary restructuring in religion, philosophy, science, art and society, the awakening of the East, the awakening of new, vitalist trends in literature and art, the realization of the phenomenon of the Nation-Soul Sri Aurobindo foresees the prospect of a future synthesizing Spiritual Age. The beginning of this era is characterized by the dominance of the Global Mind in his terminology. The article examines the dangers of domination of the Global Mind in human society and examines the ways to prevent these dangers proposed by Sri Aurobindo. In this regard, the comparison of historiosophical constructions of Sri Aurobindo and Friedrich Nietzsche is very symptomatic.