A report on Perennial philosophy
Perspective in philosophy and spirituality that views all of the world's religious traditions as sharing a single, metaphysical truth or origin from which all esoteric and exoteric knowledge and doctrine has grown.
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Traditionalist School (perennialism)
5 linksThe Traditionalist or Perennialist School is a group of 20th- and 21st-century thinkers who believe in the existence of a perennial wisdom or perennial philosophy, primordial and universal truths which form the source for, and are shared by, all the major world religions.
Frithjof Schuon
5 linksSwiss metaphysician of German descent, belonging to the Perennialist or Traditionalist School of thought.
Swiss metaphysician of German descent, belonging to the Perennialist or Traditionalist School of thought.
With René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, Schuon is recognized as one of the major 20th-century representatives of the philosophia perennis.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
3 linksIranian philosopher and University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University.
Iranian philosopher and University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University.
The 1979 revolution forced him to exile with his family to the United States, where he has lived and taught Islamic sciences and philosophy ever since, establishing himself as one of the world's leading representatives of the Islamic philosophical tradition and the perennialist school of thought.
Western esotericism
1 linksTerm scholars use to categorise a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.
Term scholars use to categorise a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.
One view adopts a definition from certain esotericist schools of thought themselves, treating "esotericism" as a perennial hidden inner tradition.
Titus Burckhardt
3 linksSwiss writer and a leading member of the Perennialist or Traditionalist School.
Swiss writer and a leading member of the Perennialist or Traditionalist School.
Following Guénon, Coomaraswamy and Schuon, Burckhardt became identified as one of the great 20th century spokesmen of the philosophia perennis, "that 'uncreated wisdom' expressed in Platonism, the Vedanta, Sufism, Taoism and other authentic esoteric and sapiential teachings".
Nondualism
2 linksFuzzy concept for which many definitions can be found, including: a rejection of dualistic thinking originating in Indian philosophy; the nondifference of subject and object; the common identity of metaphysical phenomena and the Absolute; the "nonduality of duality and nonduality"; the unity of God and man; or simply monism, the nonplurality of the world, or double-aspect theory.
Fuzzy concept for which many definitions can be found, including: a rejection of dualistic thinking originating in Indian philosophy; the nondifference of subject and object; the common identity of metaphysical phenomena and the Absolute; the "nonduality of duality and nonduality"; the unity of God and man; or simply monism, the nonplurality of the world, or double-aspect theory.
Western Neo-Platonism is an essential element of both Christian contemplation and mysticism, and of Western esotericism and modern spirituality, especially Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, Universalism and Perennialism.
Advaita Vedanta
2 linksHindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience, and the oldest extant tradition of the orthodox Hindu school Vedānta.
Hindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience, and the oldest extant tradition of the orthodox Hindu school Vedānta.
The historiography of Advaita Vedanta is coloured by Orientalist notions, while modern formulations of Advaita Vedānta, which developed as a reaction to western Orientalism and Perennialism have "become a dominant force in Indian intellectual thought."
The Perennial Philosophy
0 linksComparative study of mysticism by the British writer and novelist Aldous Huxley.
Comparative study of mysticism by the British writer and novelist Aldous Huxley.
Its title derives from the theological tradition of perennial philosophy.
Agostino Steuco
0 linksBorn at Gubbio in Umbria.
Born at Gubbio in Umbria.
He discoursed on the subject of perennial philosophy and coined the term philosophia perennis.
Robert K. C. Forman
2 linksFormer professor of religion at the City University of New York, author of several studies on religious experience, and co-editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
Former professor of religion at the City University of New York, author of several studies on religious experience, and co-editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
Notable representatives of this perennial philosophy school, such as William James, Evelyn Underhill, James Bissett Pratt, Mircea Eliade and Walter Terence Stace, argue that mystical experience gives a direct contact with an absolute reality, which is thereafter interpreted according to one's religious and cultural background.