Abstract
Beyond inner or outer, activist, poet, scholar and supramental jnani yogi Aurobindo Ghose points to and spoke from a higher order of abstraction than Aristotle when the latter asks rhetors to “observe in any given case the available means of persuasion” (The Rhetoric). Aristotle – or the crowd of students who likely prepared The Rhetoric – asks us to look outward in our observation, gathering data, hypotheses about the audience and the kinds of arguments they might love, e.g. pathos appeals that may well appeal. Aurobindo instead asks us to turn our consciousness back on itself, observing the domain he dubbed the “supramental” - where there is only a knowing without a knower.
Original language | American English |
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Title of host publication | Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetotric |
State | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- sacred
- rhetoric
- involution
- chanting
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities