Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts: A New Translation with Selected LettersThis new edition of Frithjof Schuon's Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings. |
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Page xi
... morality, considered in depth, constitutes a message that can never grow old and that therefore remains urgent for man as such, the man of all times. Thus even if our subsequent works contain a complete doctrine—the sophia perennis or ...
... morality, considered in depth, constitutes a message that can never grow old and that therefore remains urgent for man as such, the man of all times. Thus even if our subsequent works contain a complete doctrine—the sophia perennis or ...
Page 10
... moral heroism; it cannot conceive of a theism free from all weakness, from all sentimental desire—an unjust suspicion, for any- thing can be accepted because of sentimentality, the nonexistence of God just as easily as the contrary ...
... moral heroism; it cannot conceive of a theism free from all weakness, from all sentimental desire—an unjust suspicion, for any- thing can be accepted because of sentimentality, the nonexistence of God just as easily as the contrary ...
Page 11
... every value—especially every moral value—to bare fact: the world no longer has any homogeneity; it is merely an unintelligible discontinuity. It is the wisdom of a child who has discovered 11 Thought and Civilization.
... every value—especially every moral value—to bare fact: the world no longer has any homogeneity; it is merely an unintelligible discontinuity. It is the wisdom of a child who has discovered 11 Thought and Civilization.
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... moral suspicion, there is no reason for stopping, for any- thing can be explained on the basis of moral taste; pure and simple moralism always allows man to prove that white is black or that two and two make five. This attitude is all ...
... moral suspicion, there is no reason for stopping, for any- thing can be explained on the basis of moral taste; pure and simple moralism always allows man to prove that white is black or that two and two make five. This attitude is all ...
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