单词 | philosophia perennis |
释义 | philosophia perennisn. A posited core of philosophical truths that are independent of and unaffected by time or place.Frequently taken to be exemplified in the writings of Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [noun] > alleged central core of truths philosophia perennis1858 perennial philosophy1962 1858 A. C. Fraser Rational Philos. ii. 116 The long line of what an old writer calls philosophia perennis. 1886 Mind 11 440 The honour of having enriched the philosophia perennis with two new data—Habit and Heredity. 1933 W. R. Inge God & Astronomers i. 13 The classical tradition of Christian philosophy, which Roman Catholic scholars call the philosophia perennis. 1960 H. 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. 1965 Listener 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. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 May 56/1 This is a philosophia perennis—what men, thinkers, have believed from the pre-Socratics to all the reformers and revolutionaries of our own age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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