René Guénon: The Philosopher Who Challenged Modernity

[@jessisanturo]

Thanks Philosopheasy, this is the closest relativity of ideas to my ideas. I read lots of philosophers and their ideas but I also believe in God and deeper meaning.

[@Christianity_and_Perennialism]

I like your summary. It’s interesting how we are now seeing such a resurgence in interest in Guénon’s work. After reaching to the extreme of meaninglessness, humanity is grasping back for the meaning we left behind in our search for games and novelty.

[@michi_norge]

very good video 🤙

[@philosopheasy]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@AdmiringGardeningTools-dy2rz]

I am acquainted well with his writings , this is a very good introduction

[@epictetusghost1369]

Excellent.

[@cymatic3013]

Nice ai work

[@NoahRobertGraves]

It's not lost on me that this was read by AI.

[@fairbic]

At the 4 minute mark, I realized that the reader's lack of any feeling for the truth of what "it" was saying was due to "it" being AI generated. God help us.

[@josephszimhart9431]

Interesting intro to Guenon who I first read in 1981 after I emerged from a Theosophical/New Thought sect, Church Universal and Triumphant headed then by Elizabeth Prophet. I got a copy of Guenon's critique of Theosophy and Blavatskyism that he wrote after he rejected his serious dalliance with HPB's cult. Of course, at the time it was only available to me in French, so I had help translating some of it. His critique of that Pseudo-tradition, as he liked to called that stuff, helped me at the time. I proceeded to read several more of his seminal books in the 1980s. I read M. Eliade's cautious praise of Guenon's grasp of Hindu doctrine and I came to agree with Eliade's critique that Guenon wrote in a severely pedantic and labored style, as if he really knew (experienced or grokked) what he was talking about. Today, I agree with Sedgewick who wrote Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the 20th Century. Guenon inadvertently inspired a return to an autocratic approach to governance, especially through his influence on radical thinkers like Julius Evola, Alexander Dugin, and Steve Bannon. So, if you read Guenon as Philosopheasy suggests for a "deeper" view of the eternal questions like why are you here, I suggest you plant a bright red flag in your brain and think it over a few times.

[@aljonserna5598]

The age of enlightenment separated humanism and theism, when in the first place Christian theism gave birth to more sophisticated humanism (while Hinduism got more insight on bodily functions/energies, with Christianity it was more on charity and medicine). Because we don't have that orienting higher order, we're left on our own to either fall into tyrannical collectivism or go to individualism which is good. Individualism's humanist part is that it's all about the improvement or making the human existence more bearable down to the individual--although the bad side is that since there's no "God" or higher beings to guide our actions, selfish-hedonistic actions prevail rather than valuing the state of others or the better good (while there are psychopaths who really doesn't care down to their own blood families, that selfish part extends to your own small community outside of family relations). Thank God Jordan Peterson already has made ancient wisdom tied to scientific observation (look for his ytube vid: chaos and orienting response), albeit quite gnostic heretic but damn the utility is groundbreaking.

[@feliped2443]

Individualism is a false paradigm at the end though, its about rejoining back into the collective meta drama, which is from the Christian angle, participating from the story of Christ, by 'denying one's self to find oneself', so you can participate in uplifting this world from bane individualistic pursuit, to bearing suffering and transcending it through the mission of Christianity which is : 'Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven'...

[@aljonserna5598]

@@feliped2443 the last part, I don't know if you're deliberately unclear or what. True though, autonomy of individualism might lead to that primordial sin of Adam and Eve, which was pride thinking they could be Gods who would decide what's wrong or right for and by themselves, the highest place the ego could make you fall. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," is the idea from the burning bush, wherever God's direct presence is, it isn't like the pagan gods that breaks the environment around them, God's might shake things but it's more like the area becomes misty and absurdly colorful and full of life as if God is the presence heaven/garden of itself. No matter, love is often selfless especially agape that you do those acts of love without expecting reciprocity which is God's will ultimately as portrayed by Jesus and as per 1 John 4:16 "God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." That love, Jesus said the (10) commandments can be translated into loving God and your neighbors and to love "is to will the good of the other." - St Thomas Aquinas