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Quinn argues for a return to the first principles inherent in the perennial philosophy, which constitute the sacred primordial Tradition and which inform all the world's great religious traditions.

Table of Contents

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Introductory	3
Ch. 2	The Tradition	9
Ch. 3	Hermeneutics of The Tradition	19
Ch. 4	Forums of the Traditional Perspective	31
Ch. 5	The Complexio Oppositorum of Quantity and Quality	43
Ch. 6	The Philosophia Perennis	67
Ch. 7	Theosophia	91
Ch. 8	The First Principles	115
Ch. 9	Primitive Traditional Culture	161
Ch. 10	Developed Traditional Culture	179
Ch. 11	Primitive and Developed Traditional Culture Compared	197
Ch. 12	Introductory	237
Ch. 13	Losses and Gains of the Western Worldview	247
Ch. 14	Cultural Effects of Modernity	265
Ch. 15	The "Solution" to the Vicissitudes of Modernity	287
Appendix A	Tradition: Definitions and Usages	319
Appendix B	Culture	329
Appendix C	Ontology	335
Appendix D	Methodology (or Ethnomethodology)	339
	Notes to Appendices	345
	Bibliography	349
	Index	365