The Metaphysics of Becoming : On the Relationship between Creativity and God in Whitehead and Supermind and Sachchidananda in Aurobindo.

Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Part One: Whitehead's Metaphysics of Becoming -- 1 Metaphysics of Becoming: Setting the Context -- 1.1 Greek Philosophy to Scientific Materialism -- 1.2 Whitehead's Response to the Greek Outlook of Nature -- 1.2.1 The Emergence of Materialism in Modernity -- 1.2.1.1 The Doctrine of Simple Location -- 1.2.1.2 Whitehead and Classical Physics -- 1.2.1.3 The Metaphysical Dualism of 'Res Extensa and Res Cogitans' -- 1.2.1.4 Newton's Mechanistic View of the Universe -- 1.2.2 Whitehead's Response to Scientific Materialism -- 1.3 The Positive Influences -- 1.3.1 The Re-construction of Physical Sciences -- 1.3.2 The Romantic Movement -- 1.3.3 An Inevitable Shift in Methodology -- 2 Whitehead's Metaphysics of Indefinite Pluralities in Becoming -- 2.1 Being to Beingness in Becoming -- 2.1.1 The Fundamental Principle of Becoming -- 2.1.2 The Enigma of Becoming -- 2.2 Fundamental Reality in Whitehead -- 2.2.1 Actual Occasion: the Dynamic Subject -- 2.2.2 The Constitution of an Actual Occasion -- 2.2.2.1 The Theory of Concrescence -- 2.2.2.2 The Concept of Prehension -- 2.2.2.3 Satisfaction -- 2.3 The Characteristics of Actual Occasion -- 2.3.1 Actual Occasion: A Unity of the Physical and Mental Poles -- 2.3.1.1 The Physical Pole -- 2.3.1.2 The Conceptual Pole -- 2.3.2 Actual Occasion: A Self-actualising Concrescence -- 2.3.3 Actual Occasion: An Experience of Being Subject-Superject -- 2.4 The Eternal Objects: Pure Potentials for Actual Occasion -- 2.4.1 The Ontological Necessity of the Eternal Objects -- 2.4.2 The Complimentarity of the Actual and the Eternal -- 3 Creativity: The Raison d'être of Becoming -- 3.1 The Distinctive Features of Creativity -- 3.1.1 The Emergence of the Concept Creativity -- 3.1.2 Creativity: The Pure Notion of the Activity.

3.1.3 Creativity: A Meta-theoretical Concept -- 3.2 Creativity: the Metaphysical Ultimate in Whitehead -- 3.3 Different Interpretations of Creativity -- 3.3.1 Creativity: The Self-Caused Subjective Feeling -- 3.3.2 Creativity: Monistic or Pluralistic? -- 3.3.3 Creativity as Eternal Object -- 3.3.4 Creativity as Future Becoming -- 3.4 Creativity: The Raison d'être of Becoming -- 3.4.1 Creativity: the Innate Nature of Every Actuality -- 3.4.2 Creativity: the Principle of Creative Advance -- 3.4.3 Creativity: the Principle of Novelty -- 4 God and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 4.1 God and the Metaphysical Principles -- 4.2 God and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 4.2.1 God: A Metaphysical Necessity -- 4.2.2 God: An Actual Entity -- 4.2.3 The Dipolar Nature of God -- 4.2.3.1 The Primordial Nature of God -- 4.2.3.2 The Consequent Nature of God -- 4.2.4 God: The Principle of Limitation -- 4.2.5 The Vindication of the Refuted -- 4.3 God-World Relation in Whitehead's Metaphysics of Becoming -- 4.3.1 God the Creator and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 4.3.2 God: the Reservoir of Potentiality -- 4.3.3 God: the Source of Novelty -- 4.3.4 God: the Principle of Order and Harmony -- 4.3.5 God: the Source of the Initial Aim -- 4.4 The Religious Significance of Whitehead's God -- 4.4.1 The Complexity of the Subject -- 4.4.2 The Goodness of God versus the Will of God -- 4.4.3 God: the Wisdom that Permeates the Universe -- 4.4.4 Metaphysics of Becoming without God -- Part Two: Aurobindo's Integral Advaita and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 5 Integral Advaita: Its Place within the Indian Philosophical Tradition -- 5.1 Fundamental Presuppositions of Aurobindo's Metaphysics -- 5.2 Aurobindo and Vedanta Philosophy -- 5.2.1 Aurobindo and Advaita Philosophy of Shankara -- 5.2.1.1 Shankara's Theory of Reality.

5.2.1.2 Aurobindo's Response to Absolute Non-Dualism -- 5.2.2 Aurobindo and the Vishishtadvaita of Ramanuja -- 5.2.2.1 Ramanuja's Theory of Reality -- 5.2.2.2 Aurobindo's Response to Qualified Non-Dualism -- 5.2.3 Dvaitavata of Madhva -- 5.2.3.1 Theory of Difference and Dependence -- 5.2.3.2 The Ontology of Madhva -- 5.2.3.3 Aurobindo and Absolute Dualism -- 5.3 Aurobindo and Different Theories of Existence -- 5.3.1 The Supracosmic View -- 5.3.1.1 The Distinctive Nature of the Supracosmic View -- 5.3.1.2 The Supracosmic View and Integral Advaitism of Aurobindo -- 5.3.2 The Cosmic-terrestrial View -- 5.3.2.1 The Distinctiveness of the Cosmic-terrestrial View -- 5.3.2.2 The Cosmic-terrestrial View and Integral Advaitism -- 5.3.3 The Supraterrestrial View -- 5.3.3.1 Distinguishing Features of the Supra-terrestrial View -- 5.3.3.2 Aurobindo's Response to the Theories of Existence -- 6 Integral Advaita: A Metaphysics of Becoming -- 6.1 The Integral Advaitic View of Existence -- 6.1.1 The Name Integral Advaita -- 6.1.2 Distinctiveness of Integral Yoga -- 6.2 Aurobindo's Interpretation of the Concept of Maya -- 6.2.1 Maya: the Power of Becoming in Indian Philosophy -- 6.2.2 Maya: The Self's Experience of Its Being -- 6.2.3 Maya: Not a Passive Notion but a Dynamic Notion -- 6.3 Dipolar Nature of the Reality -- 6.3.1 Matter as the Foundational Substratum of Existence -- 6.3.2 The Relation between Matter and Spirit -- 6.3.3 Dipolarity is Not Dichotomy -- 6.4 The Concept of Evolution: A Process Toward Integral Unity -- 6.4.1 The Idea of Evolution in Indian Philosophy -- 6.4.2 Aurobindo's Vision of Evolution -- 6.4.2.1 Distinctiveness of Aurobindo's Concept of Evolution -- 6.4.2.2 Teleology Central to Aurobindo's Concept of Evolution -- 6.5 Cosmic Consciousness: the Locus of Becoming.

6.5.1 The Individual and the Efficacy of Cosmic Consciousness -- 6.5.2 Cosmic Consciousness: the Source of Reconciliation -- 6.6 The One and the Many: The Way of Being in Becoming -- 6.6.1 The Absolute: Unity Manifesting Multiplicity -- 6.6.2 The Infinite: the Locus of Unity -- 7 Sachchidananda and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 7.1 The Concept of the Absolute in Philosophy -- 7.1.1 Brahman: the Absolute in Indian Philosophy -- 7.1.2 Aurobindo's Understanding of the Absolute -- 7.2 The Understanding of God in Indian Philosophy -- 7.2.1 The Subjective Dimension of Brahman -- 7.2.2 The Objective Dimension of Brahman -- 7.3 Sachchidananda: The Absolute in Aurobindo -- 7.3.1 Sachchidananda: The Greatest Achievement of Vedanta -- 7.3.2 The Trinity of Sachchidananda -- 7.3.2.1 The Absolute as Pure Existence (Sat) -- 7.3.2.2 The Absolute as Consciousness-Force (Cit-Shakti) -- 7.3.2.3 The Absolute as Bliss (Ananda) -- 7.3.2.4 The Inter-dependent Nature of the Trilogy -- 7.4 Sachchidananda and the Metaphysics of Becoming -- 7.4.1 The Involution of the Absolute -- 7.4.1.1 Why Involution or the Becoming? -- 7.4.1.2 Involution: The Becoming of the Absolute -- 7.4.2 The Effects of Involution -- 7.4.2.1 Theory of World as the Manifestation -- 7.4.2.2 Sachchidananda: The Substratum and the Cause of the Universe -- 8 The Supermind: The Raison d'être of Becoming -- 8.1 The Supermind -- 8.1.1 Vedic Roots of the Supermind -- 8.1.2 The Distinctive Nature of the Supermind -- 8.1.3 The Triple Status of the Supermind -- 8.1.3.1 Comprehending Consciousness or Transcendent Status -- 8.1.3.2 The Apprehending Consciousness -- 8.1.3.3 The Projecting Consciousness -- 8.1.3.4 Combined Activity - The Way of Being-Becoming -- 8.2 The Mind and the Supermind -- 8.2.1 In the Realm of Epistemology.

8.2.2 Spatio-temporal Limitation of the Mind -- 8.2.3 Supermind: Identity of the Ideal and Actual -- 8.2.4 The Transformative Ascent from Mind to the Supermind -- 8.2.4.1 The Higher Mind -- 8.2.4.2 The Illumined Mind -- 8.2.4.3 The Intuitive Mind -- 8.2.4.4 The Overmind -- 8.2.5 The Supramental Transformation -- 8.3 The Supermind: Its Role, Relevance and Ultimacy -- 8.3.1 Supermind: An Onto-logical Necessity -- 8.3.2 Supermind: The Intermediate Link -- 8.3.3 Supermind: The Creative Principle -- 8.3.4 Supermind: Principle of Reconciliation -- 8.3.5 Supermind: The Ordering and Harmonising Principle -- 8.3.6 Supermind: The Raison d'être of Becoming -- Part Three: On the Relationship between Creativity and God and Supermind and Sachchidananda -- 9 On the Relationship between God and Creativity in Whitehead and Sachchidananda and Supermind in Aurobindo -- 9.1 The Ultimacy of God and Creativity -- 9.1.1 God and Creativity Clearly Distinguished -- 9.1.2 Different Approaches and Re-configurings -- 9.1.2.1 The Identification of Creativity and God -- 9.1.2.2 God: the Source of Creativity -- 9.1.2.3 The Immanent Interdependence of God and Creativity -- 9.2 The Ultimacy of Sachchidananda and the Supermind -- 9.2.1 One in Essence and Dipolar in Existence -- 9.2.2 Supermind: The Icon of Sachchidananda -- 9.2.2.1 Supermind: The God Aspect of Sachchidananda -- 9.2.2.2 Supermind: The Truth-Consciousness of Sachchidananda -- 9.3 The Raison d'être for the Distinction of God and Creativity -- 9.3.1 On the Demand of the Question of Evil -- 9.3.2 On the Demand of Freedom -- 9.4 The Sine qua non for the Interdependence of Sachchidananda and Supermind -- 9.4.1 On the Ground of Theism and Monism -- 9.4.2 The Problem of Evil -- 9.4.2.1 The Complexity of the Problem -- 9.4.2.2 God the Creator and the Enigma of Evil.

9.4.2.3 Evil and Divine Bliss.