Nov 9, 2023·edited Nov 9, 2023Liked by Sam Gerrans
Great idea for a day off, Sam. Schuon is endlessly fascinating. Your videos have become an absolute must, to be frank. Long may you continue to inform and enlighten. This short exposition of humanism is one of the pithiest and most potent videos you've made, and is more effective for being short. (Although we also love your long videos, obviously).
I found Schuon a bit jarring when I approached him through some of his other works (at least, given my stage of development at that time).
Having read most of Guénon's works in English, I have "learnt" how to process writers of that type, which (for me) includes Evola and, say, Spengler — without getting lost in the weeds.
With Guénon et al, it helps (me) mentally to gloss over some of the more torturous adjectives, hair-splitting definitions and abstruse erudition and stick to what I can do something with (and, thus, not worry about the inevitable excursions into Sanskrit verb conjugations vis. later developments in Akkadian — or whatever). I use something of the same approach now with Schuon.
Agreed. I read Schuon - and other perennialists - with a double-layered filter: one for the arcane and another for the disingenuous. But when he - and others like him - hits home, he really does hit home.
Nov 9, 2023·edited Nov 9, 2023Liked by Sam Gerrans
Sticking with you after your work on the Qur'an has led me to knowing these wonderful people like René Guénon, Francis Parker Yockey and especially the one that intrigued me, Jacques Ellul although I must admit reading his Technological System (an update to Technological Society) is really, really tough!
I am just a layman; dropped out of high school when I was 15, and I worked various jobs but being a truck driver is what I enjoyed the most as it frees me from mundane, monotonous work. It is meditative and I have plenty of time to think!
I dropped out of school when I was 15 also. I couldn't stand any more of it. I later went to college and then university, but I can't say they did much more than make sure I learned to write a cogent essay. All the best men are self-educated in my view (but then I'm biased)!
Great idea for a day off, Sam. Schuon is endlessly fascinating. Your videos have become an absolute must, to be frank. Long may you continue to inform and enlighten. This short exposition of humanism is one of the pithiest and most potent videos you've made, and is more effective for being short. (Although we also love your long videos, obviously).
I found Schuon a bit jarring when I approached him through some of his other works (at least, given my stage of development at that time).
Having read most of Guénon's works in English, I have "learnt" how to process writers of that type, which (for me) includes Evola and, say, Spengler — without getting lost in the weeds.
With Guénon et al, it helps (me) mentally to gloss over some of the more torturous adjectives, hair-splitting definitions and abstruse erudition and stick to what I can do something with (and, thus, not worry about the inevitable excursions into Sanskrit verb conjugations vis. later developments in Akkadian — or whatever). I use something of the same approach now with Schuon.
Agreed. I read Schuon - and other perennialists - with a double-layered filter: one for the arcane and another for the disingenuous. But when he - and others like him - hits home, he really does hit home.
Thank you, Sam! ❤️👍
Sticking with you after your work on the Qur'an has led me to knowing these wonderful people like René Guénon, Francis Parker Yockey and especially the one that intrigued me, Jacques Ellul although I must admit reading his Technological System (an update to Technological Society) is really, really tough!
I am just a layman; dropped out of high school when I was 15, and I worked various jobs but being a truck driver is what I enjoyed the most as it frees me from mundane, monotonous work. It is meditative and I have plenty of time to think!
I dropped out of school when I was 15 also. I couldn't stand any more of it. I later went to college and then university, but I can't say they did much more than make sure I learned to write a cogent essay. All the best men are self-educated in my view (but then I'm biased)!
Goodness! At least we have something in common brother! 🤭
Demophilus:
“ be vigilant in your intellectual part, for sleep about this has an affinity with real death”
https://youtu.be/7684qgHGVEM?si=NmMH8ZJ2Kf2Ta2Ad
I would also recommend the book the sentences of Sextus by the society of biblical literature