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>We will mention, by way of reminder, that Descartes limited intelligence to reason, that he granted to what he thought might be called "metaphysic" the mere function of serving as a basis for physics, and that this physics itself was by its very nature destined, in his eyes, to pave the way for the applied sciences, mechanical, medicinal and moral, the final limit of human knowledge as he conceived it.

>Are not the tendencies which he so affirmed just those which at the first glance may be seen to characterize the whole development of the modern world? To deny or to ignore all pure and super-rational knowledge was to open up the path which logically could only lead on the one hand to positivism and agnosticism, which resign themselves to the narrowest limitations of intelligence and of its object, and on the other hand to all those sentimental and "voluntarist" theories which feverishly seek in the infra-rational for what reason cannot give them. Indeed, those of our contemporaries who wish to react against rationalism accept none the less the complete identification of intelligence with mere reason, and they believe that it is nothing more than a purely practical faculty, incapable of going beyond the realm of matter.

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>> No.21238596

bump

>> No.21238759

>>21238082
Long-winded posturing. Guenon was a pseud who based his entire philosophy on hearsay he got when high on opium, as OP's pic demonstrates.

>> No.21239141

>>21238759
In this picture Guenon is smiling, not because of opium, but because he had reached the very heights of spiritual realization

>> No.21239156

>>21238082
traditionalism is just another mind virus to stop the progress of humanity and the growth of the universe.

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>>21239156
>to stop the progress of humanity and the growth of the universe

>> No.21239196

>>21238082
Long-winded posturing. Guenon was a pseud who based his entire philosophy on hearsay he got when high on opium, as OP's pic demonstrates.

>> No.21239942

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>> No.21239955

Right Wing roster:
>BAP
>Guenon
>Evola
>Hitler

It's so fucking over

>> No.21239996

>>21238082
>We will mention
Who's we? WHO'S WE? YOU'RE ONE PERSON, YOU SCHIZO! WHO'S WE?

>> No.21240095

>>21239996
We = Atman + Brahman (which are actually one and the same)

>> No.21240746

>>21238082
>super-rational knowledge
this is a contradiction in terms, if you can't articulate knowledge, then is just not knowledge, any corpus of knowldge need systematisation and articulation, thus rationalisation

>> No.21241333

>>21240746
Says who

>> No.21241608

>>21240746
the term knowledge and intellect were used in the sacred scriptures as Guénon defines them, your interpretation is a modernist one made after we lost the meaning given by Guénon