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>Zhuangzi is something completely diffe-

>Wael Hallaq, scholar of Islamic law and intellectual history, has argued in Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge (2018) that Guénon’s deep critique of modernity “is gaining enough appeal that it has become recently relevant for many intellectual concerns,” including postcolonial studies and environmental ethics (2018: 144). Hallaq suggests that Guénon offers a more thorough and effective critique of Western modernity than Edward Said (1935–2003) does in Orientalism (1978), arguing that “Guénon begins where Said ends” (2018: 145). Besides noting that Guénon was not discussed by Said, and in fact complicates Said’s concept of Orientalism, Hallaq valorises Guénon as being ‘ahead of his time’ with a prescient diagnosis of Western modernity’s destructive deviation from traditional metaphysics, social norms, and structures. He suggests that Guénon’s work “captures much of the best in recent social theory, Critical Theory, and cultural criticism, but without admitting the legitimacy of the system on which these critical theories insist” (2018: 145). As Sedgwick notes, Hallaq’s “use of Guénon represents a Traditionalist breakthrough into the Western intellectual mainstream”
(Sedgwick 2019).

>Plato is the most important philosopher in hist-

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>Let it be recalled, then, that rationalism properly so called goes hack to the time of Descartes, and it is worthy of note that it can thus be seen to be directly associated right from its beginnings with the idea of a 'mechanistic' physics; Protestantism had prepared the way for this, by introducing into religion, together with 'free enquiry', a sort of rationalism, although the word itself was not then in existence, but was only invented when the same tendency asserted itself more explicitly in the domain of philosophy.

>Rationalism in all its forms is essentially defined by a belief in the supremacy of reason, proclaimed as a veritable 'dogma', and implying the denial of everything that is of a supra-individual order, notably of pure intellectual intuition, and this carries with it logically the exclusion of all true metaphysical knowledge. This same denial has also as a consequence, in another field, the rejection of all spiritual authority, which is necessarily derived from a 'supra-human' source; rationalism and individualism are thus so closely linked together that they are usually confused, except in the case of certain recent philosophical theories which though not rationalistic are nonetheless exclusively individualistic.

>It may be noted at this point how well rationalism fits in with the modern tendency to simplification: the latter naturally always operates by the reduction of things to their most inferior elements, and so asserts itself chiefly by the suppression of the entire supra-individual domain, in anticipation of being able later on to bring everything that is left, that is to say everything in the individual order, down to the sensible or corporeal modality alone, and finally that modality itself to a mere aggregation of quantitative determinations. It is easy to see how rigorously these steps are linked together, so as to constitute as it were so many necessary stages in a continuous 'degradation' of the conceptions that man forms of himself and of the world.

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