English Dictionary

philosophia perennis

名詞

不可算名詞

(philosophy) A supposed essential core of philosophical beliefs epitomized in various writers from different temporal and geographic zones.

日本語の意味

時空を超越し、様々な時代・地域の思想家たちに共通して見られる、哲学的信念の根源的・核心的な要素を指す。 / 普遍的で永続する哲学の真髄を意味し、万物に通じる根本的な理念を含む概念。

Many twentieth-century thinkers claimed that the philosophia perennis could be found underlying both Eastern and Western mystical writings.

20世紀の多くの思想家は、普遍的な哲学が東洋と西洋の神秘的な著作の両方に共通して存在すると主張した。

意味（1）

(philosophy) A supposed essential core of philosophical beliefs epitomized in various writers from different temporal and geographic zones.

But what we are able to conclude about the meaning of the philosophia perennis in modern philosophy, based on the writings of the various philosophers mentioned here, is at once limited and tenuous.