/lit/ - Literature

>>18481517
>His understanding of Platonism is superficial and we can see it when he makes an incidental remark on platonism, in Man and His Becoming, that was like two lines saying platonism is confined to the realm of being or whatever.
That's wrong, it seems your understanding of what Guenon was saying about Plato is actually what is superficial, you should be embarrassed. Guenon probably understood Plato better than you do, being that Guenon could read Greek and so he almost certainly read Plato in Greek. The citing of Plato in question in 'Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta' seems justified. Guenon is not saying there, contrary to your misrepresentation, that Plato's thought is exclusively confined to the realm of being, Guenon is here only comparing Plato's intelligible world to a certain metaphysical concept from Vedanta, he isn't saying that the intelligible world is all of Plato's doctrine. The exact quote where Guenon writes about that is provided below, which shows that he is not reducing all of Plato's thought to "the realm of being"

>By reason of its connection with the mental faculty, the realm of subtle manifestation can be described as an ideal world, to distinguish it from the sensible world which is the realm of gross manifestation. This term however should not be taken in the sense of Plato's 'intelligible world', since his 'ideas' are possibilities in the principal state, which must be referred to formless being (in spite of the over imaginative expressions in which Plato often enveloped his thoughts): in the subtle state we are still only concerned with ideas clothed in forms, since the possibilities which this state comprises do not extend beyond individual existence.
Guenon clarifies what he says about Plato with the footnote in pic related, where he compares the specific Greek word used by Plato where the corresponding metaphysical level in Vedanta, this is not what someone does who has not at least read Plato fairly closely.