Publication
Imprint: New York : Harper & Row, 1975. Context: Originally published in French as Translation of Logique et transcendance. Series: Writings of Frithjof Schuon. Edition: First HarperTorch edition. Responsibility: Frithjof Schuon, translated from the French by Peter N Townsend. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 273 pages ; 21 cm. Features: Includes index.
Call number
PS / Schuon
ISBN
0061318426 / 9780061318429
Original publication date
1975
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: 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 rationalism; it also contains some of Schuon’s most succinct theological discussions concerning both Christian and Islamic theology. The last part of the book turns to diverse questions of the spiritual life, including a discussion of the function of the spiritual master and concludes with a study of man and certitude. -- from publisher
Table of Contents: Introduction
The Contradiction of Relativism
Abuse of the Ideas of the Concrete and the Abstract
Rationalism Real and Apparent
Concerning Proofs of God
The Argument from Substance
Evidence and Mystery
Oriental Dialectic and Its Roots in Faith
The Demiurge in North American Mythology
The Alchemy of the Sentiments
The Symbolism of the Hourglass
The Problem of Qualifications
Concerning of the Love of God
Understanding and Believing
The Servant and Union
The Nature and Function of the Spiritual Master
The Saint and the Divine Image
Truths and Errors Concerning Beauty
The Vow of Dharmakara
Man and Certainty
FY1989 / FY2015 /
Table of Contents: Introduction
The Contradiction of Relativism
Abuse of the Ideas of the Concrete and the Abstract
Rationalism Real and Apparent
Concerning Proofs of God
The Argument from Substance
Evidence and Mystery
Oriental Dialectic and Its Roots in Faith
The Demiurge in North American Mythology
The Alchemy of the Sentiments
The Symbolism of the Hourglass
The Problem of Qualifications
Concerning of the Love of God
Understanding and Believing
The Servant and Union
The Nature and Function of the Spiritual Master
The Saint and the Divine Image
Truths and Errors Concerning Beauty
The Vow of Dharmakara
Man and Certainty
FY1989 / FY2015 /
Physical description
273 p.; 21 cm
Description
Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), the author of more than 25 books on religion and spirituality, is the foremost representative of the "Perennialist" or "Traditionalist" 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 new appendix of previously unpublished selections from Schuon's letters and other private writings; comprehensive editor's notes by James S. Cutsinger; a new glossary of foreign terms and phrases, and an index. Book jacket.
Language
Original language
French