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now that the dust has settled, was he right?

>> No.14027569

Righter than Evola, that's for sure.

>> No.14027580

>>14027567
>>14027569
Yes

>> No.14027592

about what

>> No.14027595

>>14027567
No, This whole concept of a "tradition" which stands behind and sustains each religion is utterly retarded. That said he was still less wrong than 90% of philosophers from the Enlightement on.

>> No.14027744

>>14027567
yes

>> No.14027751

No.

>> No.14027800

Maybe. Who knows. I like his views. Other than that, who the fuck can tell what's the metaphysical truth in this bat shit crazy world?

>> No.14027811

>>14027595
>No, This whole concept of a "tradition" which stands behind and sustains each religion is utterly retarded.
why?

>> No.14027840

>>14027569
This, but Evola is still worth reading with a grain of salt

>> No.14027853

what makes a writer like Guenon become fashionable again?

it was Deleuze, then Whitehead, now this guy.

i'm pretty sure this is not a case of Baader meinhoff

>> No.14027863

>>14027853
Newfag confirmed, Guenon has been a popular meme since 2015 at least, Deleuze and Whitehead only started to get spammed within the last 18 months

>> No.14027878

>>14027863
i started browsing in 2013. Guenon Deleuze and Whitehead seem to have replaced Joyce Pynchon and DFW. Is this my selective observation of the board in accord with my own interests changing from fiction to philosophy or is the board developing its tastes together?

>> No.14027888

>>14027878
I assure you, it's not just you

>> No.14027894

>>14027863
Deleuze has always been popular here as well

>> No.14027895

>>14027863
When will we shill for:
> Kitaro Nishida
> Ortega y Gasset
> Nishitani Keiji
> Carl Schmitt

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>>14027853

>> No.14028303

>>14028121
What is his motivation ? Is he meming ? laughing his ass off thinking how he tricks millions into reading bullshit philosophy ? I have a hard time believing that there are people who takes these ideas seriously.

>> No.14028558

>>14028303
>What is his motivation?
enlightening the masses

>> No.14028577

>>14027853
His ideas resonate.

>> No.14028750

>>14027895
>shilling Carl Schmitt
this I can get behind, how do you propose we continue

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bump

>> No.14029280

we should get a biopic of guenon starring adam driver

>> No.14029537

>>14027811
Because It's like playing yourself a game of selective reading: sure some of the things Jesus and Buddha said are somewhat similar; but to say that they both ACTUALLY wanted to teach the same tradition is to ignore the various times they said things mutually exclusive to one another. It is in the end a scheme to disarm religion as a social force alltogether: If people actually listened to Guenon the New normality would have been to follow the religion when it suited them and just say that the parts they didn't feel like following were extra-traditional accretions. He was late: his approach might have had some success in the 18th century but by when he wrote nobody gave enought of a fuck to even pretend allready. Also It's a very colonial approach towards other people's religions which might appear strange from an East-fetishist but when you sit down a second to think, converting to Islam because It's convenient towards the way you want to live your spiritual path in, Because It's the same as Christianity anyway in that both are "traditional", and because they're going to give you a complimentary egyptian loli to fuck once you do, is pretty much Peak western individualism in a colonial setting.