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‖ philosophia perennis|fɪləʊˈsɒfɪə pəˈrɛnɪs| [L., = perennial philosophy.] An alleged central core of philosophical truths that are generally accepted regardless of time or place, usu. taken to be exemplified by Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.
[1540A. Steuchus (title) De perenni philosophia.] 1858A. C. Fraser Rational Philos. ii. 116 The long line of what an old writer calls philosophia perennis. 1933W. R. Inge God & Astronomers i. 13 The classical tradition of Christian philosophy, which Roman Catholic scholars call the philosophia perennis. 1941Mind L. 166 The tradition of Nominalism, Naturalism, Materialism, which has always haunted the Philosophia Perennis like a shadow. 1960H. Kraemer World Cultures & World Relig. vi. 150 A..career of proclaiming in America, England and Europe the glorious universality of Vedanta as the philosophia perennis. 1965Listener 1 July 14/1 Like the philosophia perennis which it reflects, his [sc. Dante's] poem just goes on applying to the human situation year after year. |