Roots of the Human Condition

by Frithjof Schuon

Applies the principle of universal and perennial metaphysics to spiritual and moral life.

Genres: Philosophy, Religion, Metaphysics

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Frithjof Schuon was a native of Switzerland born to German parents in Basel, Switzerland. He is known as a philosopher, metaphysician and author of numerous books on religion and spirituality.

Schuon is recognized as an authority on philosophy, spirituality and religion, an exponent of the Religio Perennis, and one of the chief representatives of the Perennialist School. Though he was not officially affiliated with the academic world, his writings have been noticed in scholarly and philosophical journals, and by scholars of comparative religion and spirituality. Criticism of the relativism of the modern academic world is one of the main aspects of Schuon's teachings. In his teachings, Schuon expresses his faith in an absolute principle, God, who governs the universe and to whom our souls would return after death. For Schuon the great revelations are the link between this absolute principle—God—and mankind. He wrote the main bulk of his metaphysical teachings in French. In the later years of his life Schuon composed some volumes of poetry in his mother tongue, German. His articles in French were collected in about twenty titles in French which were later translated into English as well as many other languages.

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Reviews

[Aaron Schuschu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Less about what Traditionalists tend to say is the problem (less religion in your life blah blah blah screw communism yadda yadda yadda) and more about…. I have no idea.