The Only Tradition
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-3214-3 (ISBN)
The Only Tradition examines the first principles of the perennial philosophy or ancient wisdom tradition as expressed in the writings of René Guénon and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, and the current breakdown of value, meaning, and culture in the West due to the decline of these principles since the thirteenth century. The book further focuses on the relationship or reciprocity between the first principles and Western and Eastern culture, and discusses the future development of a homogenous, worldwide system of belief that would restore value and meaning to people's lives.
Quinn argues for a return to the first principles inherent in the perennial philosophy, which constitute the sacred primordial Tradition and which inform all the world's great religious traditions. His book makes an excellent introduction to this powerful current of European esoteric thought—primordial tradition.
William W. Quinn, Jr. is an attorney with the firm of Shea and Wilks in Phoenix, Arizona.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I Background and Premises
Chapter 1 Introductory
Chapter 2 The Tradition
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
René Guénon
Tradition as the Philosophia Perennis
Metaphysics versus Religious Studies and the Social Sciences
Chapter 3 Hermeneutics of The Tradition
Esotericism in World Religions
Hierarchization
"Knowing" and "Knowing About"
Integrity of Traditions and "Religious Esperanto"
Chapter 4 Forums of the Traditional Perspective
France
England
North America
Iran
One Universal Forum
The Individuals Influenced
Chapter 5 The Complexio Oppositorum of Quantity and Quality
The Nature of Quantity
The Nature of Quality
Interrelationship of Quantity and Quality
Quality and the Tradition
Notes to Part I
Part II Principles and Parallels
Chapter 6 The Philosophia Perennis
The Concept of Philosophia Perennis in Modem Philosophy
The Term Philosophia Perennis in Western Philosophy
The Meaning of Philosophia Perennis in Modem Philosophy
Philosophia Perennis: Modem Philosophy and the Traditional Perspective
Chapter 7 Theosophia
Section I: Theosophia Antiqua
The Concept
The Term
Historical Succession of Theosophists and Theosophic Expression
Section II: Modem Theosophy
Coomaraswamy and Modem Theosophy
Guénon and Modem Theosophy
Chapter 8 The First Principles
The. Absolute and the One
Aeviternity
Periodicity
Polarity, Duality, Coincidentia Oppositorum
Cause and Effect
Gnoseology
Notes to Part II
Part III Traditional Culture
Chapter 9 Primitive Traditional Culture
Primary Considerations
Chauvinistic Perspective of Primitive Culture
Magnanimous Perspective of Primitive Culture
Traditional Perspective of Primitive Culture
Chapter 10 Developed Traditional Culture
Developed Metaphysics
Social Structure
Arts and Crafts
Work and Play
The Principle of Fusion in Traditional Culture
Anomalous Elements in Traditional Culture
Chapter 11 Primitive and Developed Traditional Culture Compared
Introductory
"Degree" of Development and Periodic Manifestation
Fundamental Dissimilarities
Fundamental Similarities
Medieval Christendom (1100-1400)
Developed Metaphysics
Social Structure
Arts and Crafts
Work and Play
Fusion
Notes to Part III
PART IV MODERN CULTURE
Chapter 12 Introductory
Chapter 13 Losses and Gains of the Western Worldview
Loss of the Sacred, Gain of the Secular
Loss of Value, Gain of the Mean
Loss of Art and Vocation, Gain of Reproduction and Industry
Loss of Metaphysics, Gain of Materialism
Loss of Integrity, Gain of Diversity
Chapter 14 Cultural Effects of Modernity
A Montage of Rotten Bases
Mass Neurosis
Terminological and Educational Confusion
Sociolatry
Pollution: Geographic and Cultural
Chapter 15 The "Solution" to the Vicissitudes of Modernity
Technologic Soteriology: The Great Chimera
The Traditional Solution
Planetization: Consciousness and Culture
A Traditional Planetary Culture: Novus Ordo Seclorum
Notes to Part IV
Appendix A
Tradition: Definitions and Usages
Appendix B
Culture
Appendix C
Ontology
Appendix D
Methodology (or Ethnomethodology)
Notes to Appendices
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.2.1997 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-3214-9 / 0791432149 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-3214-3 / 9780791432143 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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