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East and West

by Rene Guenon

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Release Date: 2004-07-02

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Reader's Review: Modern West & traditional East: insurmountable barriers?

Nowadays, when the East is mentioned, and more specifically, the traditional East, immediately rise almost insurmountable barriers, such the differences of mental physiognomy that characterizes the modern westerners and the orientals. Few know that, only six centuries ago, the Occident had much more points in common that divergences, in relation to the East, because both had ther respective civilizations developed from similar priciples, that is, both respected the natural hierarchy that orders everything, from the highest, that is, the spiritual, until the lowest, the material. Ren? Gu?non, in this exemplary book, written with extreme clarity, provides us a "radiography" of the modern Occident and its roots, as no other contemporary author had ever accomplished. In the first part of the work, Gu?non, shows the modern western civilization as truly monstrous, because it is the only one that grew exclusively in a material sense; he brings to the light the philosophical deformations, from Renascence, that constituted the roots of this type of "development and progress", words so in fashion and at the same time, so insignificant. The author approaches the limits of the modern science and the most spread prejudices against the East. In the second part are examined the frustrated attempts of approach between the East and the West, as well as how such an objective could be reached through an agreement on certain principles. Gu?non approaches the role that the constitution of an elite would carry out in such agreement. The reading of this work provides us with a vision of the whole roots of the modern world, whith a span and a depth rarely found in any other author in any time, turning possible a rigorous evaluation of what represents, in catastrophic terms, the growing global hegemony of the modern western mentality par excellence, that is, the North American mentality. The Institute Ren? Gu?non of Traditional Studies (www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9638) since many years gives a basic course "The Oriental Sight" entirely based in Ren? Gu?non's masterly work, whose entrance door can be "East and West". It is also recommended, as a complementation the this reading, "The Crisis of the Modern World", of the same author. Luiz Pontual IRGET.

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Reader's Review: - O que afasta e o que aproxima o Oriente e o Ocidente ?

Hoje em dia, quando se fala de Oriente, e mais especificamente, do Oriente tradicional, imediatamente se erguem barreiras quase intranspon?veis, tal a diferen?a da `fisionomia mental' que caracteriza os ocidentais modernos e os orientais. Poucos sabem que, h? apenas seis s?culos, o Ocidente tinha muito mais pontos em comum que divergentes, em rela??o ao Oriente, pois um e outro tinham suas respectivas civiliza??es desenvolvidas a partir de princ?pios semelhantes, isto ?, ambos respeitavam a hierarquia natural que ordena todas as coisas, desde o mais elevado, isto ?, o espiritual , at? o mais baixo, o material. Ren? Gu?non, neste livro magistral, escrito com extrema clareza, nos proporciona uma `radiografia' do Ocidente moderno e suas ra?zes, como jamais qualquer outro autor contempor?neo havia realizado. Na primeira parte da obra, Gu?non , mostra a civiliza??o ocidental moderna como verdadeiramente monstruosa, pois ? a ?nica que se desenvolveu num sentido exclusivamente material ; traz ? luz as deforma??es filos?ficas, desde a Renascen?a, que constitu?ram as ra?zes deste tipo de "desenvolvimento e progresso", termos t?o em moda e ao mesmo tempo, t?o insignificantes. O autor aborda os limites da ci?ncia moderna e os preconceitos mais difundidos contra o Oriente. Na segunda parte, s?o examinadas as tentativas frustradas de aproxima??o entre o Oriente e Ocidente assim como em que termos tal objetivo poderia ser alcan?ado, isto ?, atrav?s de um acordo sobre determinados princ?pios. Gu?non aborda o papel que a constitui??o de uma elite desempenharia em tal hip?tese. A leitura desta obra nos proporciona uma vis?o de conjunto das ra?zes do mundo moderno cuja envergadura e profundidade raramente se encontra em qualquer outro autor em qualquer tempo, tornando poss?vel uma avalia??o rigorosa do que representa, em termos catastr?ficos, a crescente hegemonia mundial da mentalidade ocidental moderna por excel?ncia, isto ?, a mentalidade norte-americana. O Instituto Ren? Gu?non de Estudos Tradicionais ( www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9638 ) h? v?rios anos vem lecionando seu curso b?sico "Olhar Oriental" inteiramente fundamentado na obra magistral de Ren? Gu?non, cuja porta de entrada pode muito bem ser "Oriente e Ocidente". ? recomendada tamb?m, como complementa??o a esta leitura, "A Crise do Mundo Moderno", do mesmo autor.

Luiz Pontual IRGET.

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