Etymology

philosophia perennis

Today it means: A supposed essential core of philosophical beliefs epitomized in various writers from different temporal and geographic zones. Full definition →

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  1. Latin · derived fromphilosophia“philosophy”
  2. English todayphilosophia perennis

From Latin philosophia (“philosophy”) + perennis (“perennial”).

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