Traditionalist School

The Traditionalist School was founded in its current form by the French metaphysician René Guénon, although its precepts are considered to be timeless and to be found in all authentic traditions. It is also known as Perennialism, the Perennial Philosophy, or Sophia Perennis, and as a philosophy it is known by Aristasians as Essentialism. The term Philosophia Perennis goes back to the Renaissance, while the Hindu expression Sanatana Dharma - Eternal Doctrine - has precisely the same signification.

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Metaphysician - René Guénon - Perennial Philosophy - Aristasia - Essentialism - Sanatana Dharma

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The other founding figures of the Traditionalist School were Ananda Coomaraswamy, the Ceylonese scholar and the Swiss mystic Frithjof Schuon. To these were added over time such imposing figures as Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Marco Pallis, Whitall N. Perry, Michel Vâlsân, William Stoddart, Charles le Gai Eaton and Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Other major figures of the twentieth century have been profoundly influenced by the school, including T.S. Eliot, the Romanian historian of religions Mircea Eliade and the Italian esotericist and political thinker Julius Evola.

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Ananda Coomaraswamy - Frithjof Schuon - Titus Burckhardt - Martin Lings - Marco Pallis - Whitall N. Perry - Michel Vâlsân - William Stoddart - Charles le Gai Eaton - Seyyed Hossein Nasr - T.S. Eliot - Mircea Eliade - Julius Evola

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