Rudyard Kipling or G.K. Chesterton: But Not Both
When G.K. Chesterton died on Jun 14, 1936, about six months after Rudyard Kipling, both men were long out of fashion, By now, as they recede in…
When G.K. Chesterton died on Jun 14, 1936, about six months after Rudyard Kipling, both men were long out of fashion, By now, as they recede in…
The Pitfalls of Attempting Psychohistory Perhaps of all the fields in the history of thought, psychohistory is the most controversial, the least developed, the least settled, and…
What does it mean to appropriate the self? Is the self somehow a "something" that can be "appropriated"? Is this mysterious appropriation something added on to the…
A Dramatic Encounter In the spring of 1976 at the University of Washington, Eric Voegelin presented a series of lectures and discussions on the topic of “Dogmatism…
Aristotle, Voegelin, and the Philosophy of Consciousness Perhaps more than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, Eric Voegelin has offered a philosophy of consciousness that parallels…
. . . . Such phrases as "a shift of the search from the symbols to the experiences," or "the lack of originality as the test of…
I went into the Apple Store last Friday. My PC hard drive had gone silent, although it was still new and the warranty was fresh. My wife…
The most efficient way to approach Ezra Pound's artistic struggle with the problem of transcendence will be to use Eric Voegelin's philosophy of human existence and history…
[The philosopher's] questioning leads to a conflict with opinion. This is quite another kind of conflict than that between differing opinions; for although the philosopher's questions are…
Thus Spake Zarathustra Philosophy can only be lived, not explained, as the powerful concreteness of Friedrich Nietzsche's Zarathustra makes clear. The limit of aphorism is reached in…