/lit/ - Literature

>>14746618
>(pbuu)
based

>>14732868
a failed intellectual movement that was forever refuted by Rene Guenon (pbuh), truth lies in Traditional metaphysics alone

>>14731212
>deleuze (or Kierkegaard)
They were shown to be of the same Protestantistic mold by Rene Guenon (pbuh) in his magnificent sacred scholarship.

>>14725018
>>14725018

>>14721361
Based....

>>14721364
>first
ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyá (pbuh) is the first uncreated poster in this thread.

>>14720184
yes

>>14700196
Based.

>>14694753
not literature, also read Guenon (pbuh)

>>14663363
Yes

>>14662201
>Guenon's
Based.

>>14638938
see the chapter about 0 in Guenon's (pbuh) book on Calculus for the red-pill on 0

>>14635813
The same trend is noticeable in the scientific realm: research here is for its own sake far more than for the partial and fragmentary results it achieves; here we see an ever more rapid succession of unfounded theories and hypotheses, no sooner set up than crumbling to give way to others that will have an even shorter life— a veritable chaos amid which one would search in vain for anything definitive, unless it be a monstrous accumulation of facts and details incapable of proving or signifying anything. We refer here of course to speculative science, insofar as this still exists; in applied science there are on the contrary undeniable results, and this is easily understandable since these results bear directly on the domain of matter, the only domain in which modern man can boast any real superiority. It is therefore to be expected that discoveries, or rather mechanical and industrial inventions, will go on developing and multiplying more and more rapidly until the end of the present age; and who knows if, given the dangers of destruction they bear in themselves, they will not be one of the chief agents in the ultimate catastrophe, if things reach a point at which this cannot be averted?

Be that as it may, one has the general impression that, in the present state of things, there is no longer any stability; but while there are some who sense the danger and try to react to it, most of our contemporaries are quite at ease amid this confusion, in which they see a kind of exteriorized image of their own mentality. Indeed there is an exact correspondence between a world where everything seems to be in a state of mere ‘becoming’, leaving no place for the changeless and the permanent, and the state of mind of men who find all reality in this ‘becoming’, thus implicitly denying true knowledge as well as the object of that knowledge, namely transcendent and universal principles. One can go even further and say that it amounts to the negation of all real knowledge whatsoever, even of a relative order, since, as we have shown above, the relative is unintelligible and impossible without the absolute, the contingent without the necessary, change without the unchanging, and multiplicity without unity; ‘relativism’ is self-contradictory, for, in seeking to reduce everything to change, one logically arrives at a denial of the very existence of change; this was fundamentally the meaning of the famous arguments of Zeno of Elea.

>>14633759
Going from reading any other 18th, 19th and 20th century literature to reading Rene Guenon (pbuh) is like going from the Kali Yuga to NeoHyperborea

>>14633246
>>14633279
Based.

>>14632918
Thank you for asking the question, brother. Start with "Crisis of the Modern World" or the first 118 pages of "Introduction to Hindu Doctrines". This should lead you towards the straight path.

>"Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth."

- (a.s) عبد الواحد يحي