/lit/ - Literature

>>20259472
>Gay corny shit.
Do you know what's really gay and corny, as well as wrong?

scientism
liberalism
neoliberalism
atheism
secularism
utilitarianism
pragmatism
egalitarianism
skepticism
anti-foundationalism
psychoanalysis
marxism
conciousness-eliminatism
logical positivism
materialism
Theosophy
process philosophy
Protestantism

>>20201556
Maybe some Guénonian Metaphysicians can chime in, if they happen to see this thread that is.

>>20196613
> Is there a list of refuted philosophies so I can skip them?

scientism
liberalism
atheism
secularism
utilitarianism
pragmatism
egalitarianism
skepticism
psychoanalysis
marxism
logical positivism
materialism
Kant
Bergson
Whitehead
Nietzsche
Hegel
Theosophy
process philosophy
Buddhism
Protestantism
Orientalism

>>20185184
I'm not OP, I'll also await his critique, I hope that he fleshes it out some more.

>>20170284
Get your dad to read Guénon
+
Dugin, Evola, Olavo de Carvalho

>>20172563
All this was meant for OP
>>20170377

>>19857371
No, it was the reverse.

>The truth is that the surviving Celtic elements were for the most part assimilated by Christianity in the Middle Ages; the legend of the 'Holy Grail', with all that it implies, is a particularly apt and significant example of this. Moreover, we think that if a Western tradition could be rebuilt it would be bound to take on a religious form in the strictest sense of this word, and that this form could only be Christian; for on the one hand the other possible forms have been too long foreign to the Western mentality, and on the other it is only in Christianity-and we can say still more definitely in Catholicism-that such remnants of a traditional spirit as still exist in the West are to be found. Every 'traditionalist' venture that ignores this fact is without foundation and therefore inevitably doomed to failure; it is self evident that one can build only upon something that has a real existence, and that where there is lack of continuity, any reconstruction must be artificial and cannot endure. If it be objected that Christianity itself, in our time, is no longer understood in its profound meaning, we should reply that it has at least kept in its very form all that is needed to provide the foundation of which we have been speaking. The least fantastic venture, in fact the only one that does not come up against immediate impossibilities, would therefore be an attempt to restore something comparable to what existed in the Middle Ages, with the differences demanded by modifications in the circumstances; and for all that has been completely lost in the West, it would be necessary to draw upon the traditions that have been preserved in their entirety, as we stated above, and, having done so, to undertake the task of adaptation, which could be the work only of a powerfully established intellectual elite.

>calls you a cuck

>>19459563
>enters thread
>destroys modernity
>leaves

>>19326722

>In Guénon’s view, however, as he expresses it in his keynote Crisis of the Modern World (1927) Jamesian pragmatism merely exemplifies the modern tendency to emphasize action over contemplation and instrumentality over knowledge. Guenon remarks how under the Protestant dispensation religion descends towards two privative states, “moralism” and “sentimentality,” until it dwindles down to jejune “religiosity.” Guénon writes: “To this final stage [of dispirited religion] correspond theories such as that of the ‘religious experience’ of William James, which goes to the point of finding in the ‘subconscious’ man’s means of entering into communication with the divine”; thus “a limited God [of subjective rather than transcendental experience] is stipulated as being more ‘advantageous’ than an infinite God.

>>19323867
>Wtf does this proto-new-age larper have to offer other than that?

>*Destroys philosophy*
>*Destroys science*
>*Destroys libtards*
>*Destroys atheists*
>*Destroys secularism*
>*Destroys utilitarianism*
>*Destroys pragmatism*
>*Destroys egalitarianism*
>*Destroys psychoanalysis*
>*Destroys marxism*
>*Destroys colonialism*
>*Destroys atomism*
>*Destroys materialism*
>*Destroys Leibniz*
>*Destroys Kant*
>*Destroys Bergson*
>*Destroys Whitehead*
>*Destroys Deleuze*
>*Destroys anglos*
>*Destroys the modern obsession with working*
>*Destroys theosophy*
>*Destroys process philosophy*
>*Destroys unprincipled modern “math”*
>*Destroys consumerism*
>*Destroys new-age syncretism*
>*Destroys Protestantism*
>*Destroys “Academia”*
>*Destroys Orientialism*

>Destroyed philosophy
>Destroyed science
>Destroyed libtards
>Destroyed atheists
>Destroyed commies
>Destroyed secularism
>Destroyed psychoanalysis
>Destroyed marxism
>Destroyed colonialism
>Destroyed atomism
>Destroyed materialism
>Destroyed Kant
>Destroyed anglos
>Destroyed the modern obsession with working
>Destroyed theosophy
>Destroyed processism
>Destroyed unprincipled modern “math”
Is he /ourguy/? Why isn't this genius more widely read?

>>17424269
>'Crisis of the Modern World' - René Guénon
>'The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times' - René Guénon"

>>17380521

>“In a world increasingly rife with heresy and pseudo-religion, Guénon had to remind twentieth century man of the need for orthodoxy, which presupposes firstly a Divine Revelation and secondly a Tradition that has handed down with fidelity what Heaven has revealed. He thus restores to orthodoxy its true meaning, rectitude of opinion which compels the intelligent man not only to reject heresy but also to recognize the validity of faiths other than his own if they also are based on the same two principles, Revelation and Tradition.”
—Martin Lings, author of Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions

>“If during the last century or so there has been even some slight revival of awareness in the Western world of what is meant by metaphysics and metaphysical tradition, the credit for it must go above all to Guénon. At a time when the confusion into which modern Western thought had fallen was such that it threatened to obliterate the few remaining traces of genuine spiritual knowledge from the minds and hearts of his contemporaries, Guénon, virtually single-handed, took it upon himself to reaffirm the values and principles which, he recognized, constitute the only sound basis for the living of a human life with dignity and purpose or for the formation of a civilization worthy of the name.”
—Philip Sherrard, author of Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition

>“Apart from his amazing flair for expounding pure metaphysical doctrine and his critical acuteness when dealing with the errors of the modern world, Guénon displayed a remarkable insight into things of a cosmological order. . . . He all along stressed the need, side by side with a theoretical grasp of any given doctrine, for its concrete—one can also say its ontological—realization failing which one cannot properly speak of knowledge.”
—Marco Pallis, author of A Buddhist Spectrum

>“Guénon’s mission was two-fold: to reveal the metaphysical roots of the ‘crisis of the modern world’ and to explain the ideas behind the authentic and esoteric teachings that still [remain] alive.”
—Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy

>>16838637
undoubtedly

>>16656193

>“In a world increasingly rife with heresy and pseudo-religion, Guénon had to remind twentieth century man of the need for orthodoxy, which presupposes firstly a Divine Revelation and secondly a Tradition that has handed down with fidelity what Heaven has revealed. He thus restores to orthodoxy its true meaning, rectitude of opinion which compels the intelligent man not only to reject heresy but also to recognize the validity of faiths other than his own if they also are based on the same two principles, Revelation and Tradition.”
—Martin Lings, author of Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions

>“If during the last century or so there has been even some slight revival of awareness in the Western world of what is meant by metaphysics and metaphysical tradition, the credit for it must go above all to Guénon. At a time when the confusion into which modern Western thought had fallen was such that it threatened to obliterate the few remaining traces of genuine spiritual knowledge from the minds and hearts of his contemporaries, Guénon, virtually single-handed, took it upon himself to reaffirm the values and principles which, he recognized, constitute the only sound basis for the living of a human life with dignity and purpose or for the formation of a civilization worthy of the name.”
—Philip Sherrard, author of Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition

>“Apart from his amazing flair for expounding pure metaphysical doctrine and his critical acuteness when dealing with the errors of the modern world, Guénon displayed a remarkable insight into things of a cosmological order. . . . He all along stressed the need, side by side with a theoretical grasp of any given doctrine, for its concrete—one can also say its ontological—realization failing which one cannot properly speak of knowledge.”
—Marco Pallis, author of A Buddhist Spectrum

>“Guénon’s mission was two-fold: to reveal the metaphysical roots of the ‘crisis of the modern world’ and to explain the ideas behind the authentic and esoteric teachings that still [remain] alive.”
—Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy

>>16650999

>Destroyed philosophy
>Destroyed science
>Destroyed libtards
>Destroyed atheists
>Destroyed commies
>Destroyed secularism
>Destroyed psychology
>Destroyed marxism
>Destroyed psychoanalysis
>Destroyed materialism
>Destroyed buddhism
>Destroyed processism

What's his best book?

Indeed, no knowledge is really worthy of the name except
insofar as it has the effect of bringing about such an identification,
although in all cases other than that of intellectual intuition this identification always remains incomplete and imperfect; in other words,
there is no true knowledge except that which participates to a greater
or less extent in the nature of pure intellectual knowledge, which is
the supreme knowledge.
All other knowledge, being more or less indirect, has at best only a symbolic or representative value; the only genuinely effective knowledge is that which permits us to penetrate into
the very nature of things, and if such a penetration may be effected
up to a certain point in the inferior degrees of knowledge, it is only in
metaphysical knowledge that it is fully and totally realizable.

The immediate consequence of this is that knowing and being
are fundamentally but one and the same thing; they are, so to speak,
two inseparable aspects of a single reality, being no longer even really
distinguishable in that sphere where all is “without duality”.
This in itself is enough to show how purposeless are all the various “theories
of knowledge” with metaphysical pretensions which occupy such
a prominent place in modern Western philosophy, sometimes even
going so far, as in the case of Kant for example, as to absorb, or at least
to dominate, everything else.

The only reason for the existence of such
theories arises from an attitude of mind shared by almost all modern
philosophers and originating in the Cartesian dualism; this way of
thinking consists in artificially opposing knowing and being, an opposition that is the negation of all true metaphysics.
Modern philosophy
thus ends by wishing to substitute the theory of knowledge for knowledge itself, which amounts to an open confession of impotence on its
part; nothing is more characteristic in this respect than the following
declaration of Kant: “The chief and perhaps the only use of all philosophy of pure reason is, after all, exclusively negative, since it is not
an instrument for extending knowledge, but a discipline for limiting it.”

Do not such words amount purely and simply to saying that the
only aim of philosophers should be to impose upon everyone else the
narrow limits of their own understanding?

- Rene Guenon

>>15071199
The Crisis of the Modern World

>>15044549
>as someone who has read Kant and Hegel
OH NO NO NO NO NO

>>15039781
holy based...

.......IS BASED AS FUCK