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The article Hegel defines Philosphia Perrenis (which it redirects here) as: "[Hegel]...introduced, arguably for the first time in philosophy, the idea that History and the concrete are important in getting out of the circle of philosophia perennis, i.e., the perennial problems of philosophy", connoting something to be avoided, as opposed to this article "Perennial Philosophy" connoting a hypothetical body of absolute truths. It is by no means clear to me that these concepts are mutually exclusive :-) but some clarification of the use of the term(s) would be helpful. Pete St.John 18:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"The same"

Buddhism and Taoism do not have this duality. Jainism is also completely different. Arrow740 00:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The quote from Aldous Huxley's 'The Perennial Philosophy

The part from the 2nd paragraph: "totally selfness and one-pointed." Should it be "selfless" instead? 203.117.22.248 10:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC) Ut ahat ahsasasad —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.21.133.157 (talk) 01:00, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Added the views of Al-Farabi

The source is 'Classification of Knowledge in Islam', by Dr. Osman Bakar. The book was presented as his doctoral thesis to the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia in June 1998. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.37.23.147 (talk) 17:10, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I should add, the book has a foreword by Sayyed Hussein Nasr containing his endorsement of Dr. Bakar's research. Nasr is one of the prominent 20th century perennialists so their own tracing of ideas to Al-Farabi is legit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.37.23.147 (talk) 17:26, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perennial philosophy in Christianity

The section on perennial philosopphy in Christianity reflects only an extreme Evangelical point of view, as the overwhelming majority of the world's Christains, about 51% Catholic, some 15% Orthodox, and 15% Mainstream Protestant all believe that reason "can at least expose you to God". I couldn't find any way to repair this section to make it talk about what it claims, so I will switch the title to "Perennial philosophy in Evangelical Christianity". -Robert

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+== Perennial philosophy in Christianity ==
+The section on perennial philosopphy in Christianity reflects only an extreme Evangelical point of view, as the overwhelming majority of the world's Christains, about 51% Catholic, some 15% Orthodox, and 15% Mainstream Protestant all believe that reason "can at least expose you to God". I couldn't find any way to repair this section to make it talk about what it claims, so I will switch the title to "Perennial philosophy in Evangelical Christianity". -Robert