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>>15016214
>>15016349
>>15017717
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism
>Even though neoplatonism primarily circumscribes the thinkers who are now labeled Neoplatonists and not their ideas, there are some ideas that are common to neoplatonic systems, for example, the monistic idea that all of reality can be derived from a single principle, "the One".
>Neoplatonism also had a strong influence on the Perennial philosophy of the Italian Renaissance thinkers Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, and continues through nineteenth-century Universalism and modern-day spirituality and nondualism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy
>The Perennial philosophy (Latin: philosophia perennis),[note 1] also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a perspective in 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.

>Perennialism has its roots in the Renaissance interest in neo-Platonism and its idea of the One, from which all existence emanates. Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) sought to integrate Hermeticism with Greek and Jewish-Christian thought,[1] discerning a Prisca theologia which could be found in all ages.[2] Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–94) suggested that truth could be found in many, rather than just two, traditions. He proposed a harmony between the thought of Plato and Aristotle, and saw aspects of the Prisca theologia in Averroes (Ibn Rushd), the Quran, the Kabbalah and other sources.[3] Agostino Steuco (1497–1548) coined the term philosophia perennis.[4]

>A more popular interpretation argues for universalism, the idea that all religions, underneath seeming differences, point to the same Truth. In the early 19th century the Transcendentalists propagated the idea of a metaphysical Truth and universalism, which inspired the Unitarians, who proselytized among Indian elites. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Theosophical Society further popularized universalism, not only in the western world, but also in western colonies. In the 20th century universalism was further popularized in the English-speaking world through the neo-Vedanta inspired Traditionalist School, which argued for a metaphysical, single origin of the orthodox religions, and by Aldous Huxley and his book The Perennial Philosophy, which was inspired by neo-Vedanta and the Traditionalist School.

IS THIS A GUENON?

>>14784252
>Jacques Lacan
OH NO NO NO NO

>>14761368
>the number of natural numbers
>is exactly equal to
OH NO NO NO NO

>>14748802
>>14748813
>>14748840
>>14748927
>Guenon
Based.

>>14749036
>pure-quantity
OH NO NO NO NO

>>14681449
The monkey in question somehow actually cancelled & destroyed all ignorant post-medieval Western philosophy.

>>14647510
By explaining how philosophy (properly so called) is necessarily initiatic in nature and showing how Western philsosophy has lost this character, thereby leading to its immediate degeneration as explained in the books mentioned in >>14647393

>>14647564
>Yet it is humbly and with all deference and worship our opinion that every drop generated (so far as may be possible) should be consumed.
Based!

>>14641716
>tl;dr on Hinduism and its development
>>woah you said this mantra will make me rich and powerful?
>>oh I need to sacrifice some animals in a certain way with a fire?
>>praise Agni, praise Indra!
>>wait who is this 'Buddha' kid they keep talking about
>>oy vey he's gaining popularity
>>quick bros we must preserve Brahmin supremacy somehow
>>"actually guys our dharma is about the self, reality, maya, oneness, liberation etc....forget the sacrificial rituals and deva adoration we once championed (psyche we still do that)"
>>oh shit he's still gaining tracti- wait look the muslims are pushing them out!
>>finally we can challenge buddhism and 'win' debates against some peasant monks and write about how we're awesome and shit centuries after that fact, they'll never know that we took their arguments from them it'll take em by surprise bro
>>oh btw the Buddha was Vishnu all long so hooray for us!
>>*takes a celebratory shit in the street*
Based!

>>14634455
>>Guenon

>>14632003
>total individuality
Refuted by René Guénon (pbuh) in his 'Reign of Quantity'.
>Evola
Refuted by René Guénon (pbuh) in his 'East and West' and 'Perspectives on Initiation'.

>>14627010

>>14593889
bassed