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Explain guenons philosophy to me in 150 words.
Why do you like him so much?

>> No.17029067

Go do your homework by urself you lazy fuck.

>> No.17029112

>>17029026
It’s one literally autistic guy spamming him

>> No.17029517

>>17029026
All religious and spiritual traditions are derived from and aim at describing the supreme transcendent principle. Why I love him? Because that's fucking based, of course.

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>>17029026
already refuted.

>> No.17029619

>>17029517
What makes academics hate him? Beyond 'reee cultural marxism' ofcourse.

>> No.17029643

>>17029026
Basically, Guenon taught that there is a transcendent timeless truth, almost like the laws of physics but in this case undergirding reality and metaphysics, and that this is encoded in the esoteric equivalent of most major religions, while also offering insightful critiques of many modern spooks like consumerism, materialism, individualism, democracy, egalitarianism, etc. All in all reading him was like waking up from a dream of my former illusions.

>> No.17029718

>>17029643
He walked through christianity and Hinduism to reach Islam for that?

>> No.17029728

>>17029026
Where do i start with Guenon?

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>>17029728

>> No.17029774

>>17029643
What did you believe before reading him?

>> No.17029830

>>17029619
I don't know if academics hate him, I think it's just selection bias since they only want to deal with other materialist shit so they normally don't even know who he is. Academics usually like Mircea Eliade, though, who has many similar ideas.
>>17029718
He wanted to be initiated into an esoteric tradition and Sufism was simply the most accessible. It would be wrong to think of his turn to Sufism as a conversion from one religion to another.

>> No.17029838

>>17029643
Seems like plato but for retards

>> No.17029935

>>17029619
Contextualist approaches to mysticism and religious experience (Katz,etc.) have largely replaced perennialism in academia.

>> No.17029959

You gay
I gay
We gay
Three way?

>> No.17029986

>>17029643
Isn't the idea of a transcendent timeless truth (underlying all religions) kind of common knowledge these days though? I feel like I knew that when I was a teen reading stuff like Huxley. Is there more here that I'm missing?

>> No.17030005

>>17029959
Ugh?

>> No.17030073

>>17029986
Yes. I have never met anyone who even knew what perennialism was before I told them. Huxley is one of the people who introduced that school of thought to the European world, anyway - you being familiar with him is what is colouring your perception of the general opinion. The average normie only knows fundamentalism and new age woohoo bullshit.

>> No.17030092

>>17029838
Guenon superceded Plato

>> No.17030501

>>17029026
>Explain guenons philosophy to me in 150 words.
On an esoteric level, all major religions share the same monistic philosophy. Despite this universalism, people are advised to avoid syncretism and to seek a proper lineage to receive initiation into a Tradition.

>> No.17030611

>>17030005
Vgh*