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Frithjof Schuon war ein schweizerischer Metaphysiker und Religionsphilosoph.

Zusammen mit René Guénon, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy und Titus Burckhardt gilt Schuon als einer der Wiederbeleber der Sophia perennis im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Sein Denken steht in der Tradition von Platon, Shankara, Ibn Arabi und Meister Eckhart; er schrieb – größtenteils in französischer Sprache – mehr als zwei Dutzend Bücher über Metaphysik, Religion und Spiritualität. Durch seine umfassende Kenntnis philosophischer, religiöser und insbesondere mystischer Traditionen der Welt war er in der Lage, diese miteinander zu vergleichen und in einen umfassenden Gesamtzusammenhang zu stellen.

✵ 18. Juni 1907 – 5. Mai 1998   •   Andere Namen フリッチョフ・シュオン
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“The beauty of the sacred is a symbol or a foretaste of, and sometimes a means for, the joy that God alone procures.”

[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 38, 978-1-93659700-0]
God, Beauty

“The reason for the existence of a religion, from one point of view at least, is to be found precisely in those things wherein it differs from other religions.”

Frithjof Schuon buch The Transcendent Unity of Religions

The Transcendent Unity of Religions (1953; revised edition 1984)

“What most men do not know - and if they could know it, why could they be called on to believe it?”

Frithjof Schuon buch Den Islam verstehen

Is that this blue sky, though illusory as an optical error and belied by the vision of interplanetary space, is nonetheless an adequate reflection of the Heaven of the Angels and the Blessed and that therefore, despite everything, it is this blue mirage, flecked with silver clouds, that is right and will have the final say; to be astonished at this amounts to admitting that it is by chance that we are here on earth and see the sky as we do.
Understanding Islam (1963)

“It ought to be possible to restore to the word "philosophy" its original meaning: philosophy − the "love of wisdom" − is the science of all the fundamental principles; this science operates with intuition, which "perceives," and not with reason alone, which "concludes."”

Frithjof Schuon buch The Transfiguration of Man

Subjectively speaking, the essence of philosophy is certitude; for the moderns, on the contrary, the essence of philosophy is doubt: the philosopher is supposed to reason without any premise (voraussetzungsloses Denken), as if this condition were not itself a preconceived idea; this is the classical contradiction of all relativism. Everything is doubted except for doubt. The solution to the problem of knowledge − if there is a problem − could not possibly be this intellectual suicide that is the promotion of doubt; on the contrary, it lies in having recourse to a source of certitude that transcends the mental mechanism, and this source − the only one there is − is the pure Intellect, or Intelligence as such.
[2005, The Transfiguration of Man, World Wisdom, 3, 978-0-94153219-8]
Miscellaneous, Philosophy

“There is no access to the Heart without the virtues.”

[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 16, 978-1-93659700-0]
Spiritual path, Virtue

“Every virtue is a participation in the Beauty of the One and a response to His Love.”

[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 20, 978-1-93659700-0]
Spiritual path, Virtue

“Humanly, no one escapes the obligation to "believe in order to be able to understand"”

credo ut intelligam
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 33, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual life, Faith

“The double mission of man: to know the Absolute from the standpoint of the contingent, and to manifest the Absolute within the contingent.”

[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, xii, 978-1-936597-41-3]
Human being, Specificities

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