Logic and Transcendence: A New Translation with Selected Letters (Writings of Frithjof Schuon)

In this new edition of his most important philosophical work, Frithjof Schuon confronts the pitfalls of rationalism and relativism within modern philosophy. This new edition comprises a fully revised translation from the French original and contains an extensive Appendix with previously unpublished letters and other private writings. CONTENTS......Page 6 Editor’s Preface......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 The Contradiction of Relativism......Page 17 Abuse of the Ideas of the Concrete and the Abstract......Page 27 Rationalism Real and Apparent......Page 39 Concerning Proofs of God......Page 59 The Argument from Substance......Page 75 Evidence and Mystery......Page 83 Oriental Dialectic and Its Roots in Faith......Page 108 The Demiurge in North American Mythology......Page 142 The Alchemy of the Sentiments......Page 149 The Symbolism of the Hourglass......Page 154 The Problem of Qualifications......Page 161 Implications of the Love of God......Page 174 Understanding and Believing......Page 182 The Servant and Union......Page 192 The Nature and Function of the Spiritual Master......Page 200 The Delivered One and the Divine Image......Page 210 Truths and Errors Concerning Beauty......Page 218 The Vow of Dharmakara......Page 228 Man and Certainty......Page 237 Appendix: Selections from Letters and Other Previously Unpublished Writings......Page 246 The Theological and Metaphysical Ambiguity of the Word Ex......Page 260 Editor’s Notes......Page 264 Glossary of Foreign Terms and Phrases......Page 294 Index......Page 306 Biographical Notes......Page 318 Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is the foremost representative of the "Traditionalist" or "Perennialist" school of comparative religious thought. This new edition of Logic and Transcendence, his most important philosophical work, is a fully revised translation from the French original and contains an extensive Appendix with previously unpublished selections from Schuon's letters and other private writings. Logic and Transcendence contains chapters devoted to specifically philosophical questions such as the contradiction of relativism, the notion of the concrete and abstract, and the limitations of