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So what's the deal with Guenon?
Is tradition the answer to modernity or a meme?

>> No.14220981

Guenon is real deal

>> No.14220982

>>14220969
>So what's the deal with Guenon?
he's right
>Is tradition the answer to modernity
yes

/thread

>> No.14220985

Guenon is not a philosopher. He is a pseudointellectual rhetoritician with a bad reading in comparative religion. He was the Jordan Peterson of his time. Read theory.

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>> No.14221001

>inb4 this thread gets raided by copeposting Ethnonationalists spamming COPE SEETHE INCEL HAVE SEX LARPER
>NOOOO DONT READ GUENON


>>14220969
Yes he is the real deal.
He walks the fine line between being an Esoteric Perennialist and still understanding the value of Orthodox religion

Most people are either one or the other, but Guenon is both, which makes him stand out from Christcuck/Salafi Larpers and Theosophy/coexist libtards

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>>14220985
>Jordan Peterson supports Islam

>> No.14221034

Guenon is not a philosopher, he's an historian of religion. His arguments are not philosophical arguments in the slightest but interpretations of religious myths, doctrines and sourced, which makes them at best good literary criticism and at worst simple argument from authority. His historical value is weak, compared to eliade, for instance, and his book are full of ad hoc arguments and straight made up reading of the sources. He's an incredibly poor source of philosophical insight compared to Plato and others in the neoplatonic tradition - of which so-called tradition is a mere ripoff, where the argumentative skills of actual platonic philosophers are substituted by gross generalizations, random assumptions, weak textual interpretations and arguments from authority for claims that are way too broad to be accepted just because "dude Greek gods look like hindu gods so there must be like a true God they were both referring to!" or "dude christ and Buddha are similar so could they be pointing at the same vague new age doctrine I point to but with a lot of references to old texts to give it authority?" this is the lowest kind of speculation and it is good that it has been forgotten and ridiculed.

>> No.14221045

>>14221034
>Guenons arguments for Perennialism sound bad when I rephrase them as strawmen

truly an enlightening take on Guenon