16 must-read philosophy books like Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines by René Guénon

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Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

By: René Guénon

4.13

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

René Guénon's Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines can serve as an introduction to all his …

"If, as must be done in this instance, the word atom be taken in its true sense of “ indivisible,"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"If, as must be done in this instance, the word atom be taken in its true sense of “ indivisible,"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fixity and stability."

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fixity and stability."

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

If you liked the philosophy plot in Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines by René Guénon , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Aristotle for Everybody

By: Mortimer J. Adler

4.11

Format: 208 pages,

Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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3. Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Hell is truth seen too late."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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4. Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

By: Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Hardcover

Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absol… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • spirituality
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5. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

By: Oswald Spengler

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. The Everlasting Man

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.16

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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7. Revolt Against the Modern World

By: Julius Evola , None

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world… read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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8. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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9. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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10. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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11. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • metaphysics
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13. The Orthodox Way

By: Kallistos Ware

3.20

Format: 168 pages,

This book is a general account of the doctrine, worship and life of Orthodox Christians by the auth… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology

14. The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History

By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask

4.00

Format: None pages,

This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the Nor… read more

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15. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more

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16. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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17. The Forest Passage

By: Ernst Jünger

4.08

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent think… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

"None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-bei…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

"Still more important is the consideration that in many people today a strong need for religious ritual coexists with an aversion to churches. There is a sense of something missing in existence, which…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

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18. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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19. Metaphysics of War

By: Julius Evola

4.06

Format: 154 pages, Unknown Binding

This is the second, revised edition of Metaphysics of Battle, Victory & Death in the World of Tradi… read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • metaphysics
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20. Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

By: René Guénon

4.13

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

René Guénon's Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines can serve as an introduction to all his … read more

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  • india
  • metaphysics
  • hinduism
"If, as must be done in this instance, the word atom be taken in its true sense of “ indivisible,"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fix…"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in :progress" and in "evolution," that is to say since a little more than a century ago, profess to see a sign of inferiority in this absence of c…"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"The differences between East and West seem to have been continually on the increase, but this divergence can be said to have been one-sided, in the sense that it is only the West which has changes, w…"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

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4.11

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3.71

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David Hume

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4.02

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Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

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