The timeless relevance of traditional wisdom
By: by M. Ali Lakhani ; foreword by Reza Shah-Kazemi ; introduction by William Stoddart
Series: The library of perennial philosophy; The perennial philosophy series
Publisher: World Wisdom
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781935493198
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is "tradition"?; title: An introduction to sacred web; title: The importance of spiritual literacy; title: Pluralism and the metaphysics of morality; title: "What thirst is for"; title: Of detachment and spiritual courtesy; title: Consecrated to the sublime; title: "Fundamentalism" : a metaphysical perspective; title: Reclaiming the center; title: Understanding "tradition"; title: On faith and intellect; title: Umberto Eco, Fascism, and tradition; title: Towards a traditional understanding of sexuality; title: On translation; title: The principle of verticality; title: The quest for moral certainty; title: On cultivating awareness; title: What is normal?; title: The problem of evil; title: The secular and the sacred; title: "Standing unshakably in the true" : a commentary on the teachings of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998); title: "A single principle" : on faith and pluralism; title: Striving for "wholeness" in the Kali yuga; title: The secularization of faith in the modern world; title: Of "longing" and "belonging"; title: Excerpt from "The metaphysics of human governance"; title: The metaphysics of poetic expression; title: "Neither of the East nor of the West" : universality in Islam; title: Education in the light of tradition : a metaphysical perspective; title: Review of Science of the cosmos, science of the soul, by William C. Chittick; title: Review of Conversations with Wendell Berry; title: Review of the Henry Corbin trilogy / by Tom Cheetham.