Remembering in a World of Forgetting: Thoughts on Tradition and Postmodernism (Library of Perennial Philosophy)

CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
EDITORS’ NOTE......Page 18
I. Forgetting......Page 20
1. PROGRESS OR THE fKALI-YUGAfl......Page 22
2. MEANING BEHIND THE ABSURD......Page 26
3. TRADITIONAL AND MODERN CIVILIZATIONS......Page 32
4. IDEOLOGICAL OBSTACLES TO THE SPIRITUAL LIFE......Page 36
5. RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN THE LIGHT OF THE WRITINGS OF THE PERENNIALIST SCHOOL......Page 42
6. SIX FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS IN THE EVOLUTIONIST HYPOTHESIS......Page 52
7. THE FLAWS OF DEMOCRACY......Page 54
II. Remembering (theory)......Page 58
8. WHAT IS RELIGION?......Page 60
9. WHAT IS ORTHODOXY?......Page 62
10. WHAT IS THE INTELLECT?......Page 64
11. FRITHJOF SCHUON AND THE PERENNIALIST SCHOOL......Page 70
12. THE MASCULINE AND THE FEMININE......Page 86
13. THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN EDUCATION......Page 96
III. Remembering (practice)......Page 102
14. WHAT IS MYSTICISM?......Page 104
15. THE ROLE OF OBEDIENCE IN SPIRITUALITY......Page 116
16. SPIRITUALITY IN ISLAM Aspects of Islamic Esoterism......Page 118
17. SPIRITUALITY IN CHRISTIANITY A Visit to Mount Athos......Page 126
18. SPIRITUALITY IN HINDUISM A Visit to the Jagadguru......Page 134
19. SPIRITUALITY IN BUDDHISM The Meaning of Tantra......Page 140
APPENDIX I Excerpts from Letters......Page 144
APPENDIX II Biography of William Stoddart......Page 154
SOURCES......Page 160
GLOSSARY......Page 164
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES......Page 168
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 170
INDEX OF PEOPLES, PERSONS, AND PLACES......Page 176
Other Titles in the Perennial Philosophy Series by World Wisdom......Page 182