The Evolution of the Spirit

ABOUT THE BOOK “By putting survival in a preeminent position Darwin relegates high aspirations and elevated sentiments to the periphery barely part of the landscape while the utilitarian aspects of life are brought to the fore. This vision has had wide repercussions in an age where there is an unfortunate tendency to incline towards materialist and utilitarian philosophies. These have diffused a primordial and decisive feature in man: his spiritual evolution.” “In this work I have summarized the theories that I consider the most relevant and deserving of analysis and commentary on this subject both from the East and the West. I have no doubt that the readers spirit will soar following the elevated flight of these thinkers.” “In the final analysis this is the purpose of all my work: raising the spirit lifting it out of the daily tedium and the noxious and low goals that contemporary society has to offer presenting other realities beyond oneself that are more realistic attractive and worthy of being lived when they are shown in the correct light. This work demonstrates other ways of seeing nuances that open multiple windows for the human spirit into distant bright and promising horizons.” ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ozán Lavoisierhas written nine philosophical treatises and is the first Latin American philosopher to be published in India. (Har-Anand Publications Delhi) He has devoted one half of his long life to Western culture and the other half to Indian culture. Through the comparison of the historical trajectory of these two civilizations Ozán Lavoisier has felt the need to incorporate the general moral and spiritual bases of the Indian tradition into the West as the latter has been invaded by a wave of materialism and has lost its indispensable premises for civilizational progress. In two books on Philosophy of History he has tried to show why this incorporation is necessary. The author is the director and scriptwriter of a documentary film.