Loving Sophia and Loving Nature: A Meditation
This short, informal bit of writing is inspired by a former high school student of mine who has, for the last number of years, devoted her working…
Oil and Water? Assessment and the Pursuit of Wisdom in Education
Stating the Problem Academic research in the field of assessment is replete with thoughtful analysis designed to offer us a multitude of ways to improve both our…
An Invitation to Philosophizing: On the Challenges of Philosophy of Education Instruction in B.Ed. Programs
The Trend towards Marginalizing Philosophy “Philosophy of Education” or “Education Foundations” is not regularly offered as a core course in most B. Ed. Programs today. The eradication…
Art as a Via Negativa: A Note on Larkin’s High Windows
If human beings can be described as living between the apeirontic depth of the fundamental grounding reality “prior” to both inorganic and organic life, and the noetic…
Big History and the Religious Perspective
What connections could exist between Big History and the religious perspective? The answer is more than plenty. If Big History is defined as “the attempt to understand,…
The Landscape of the American Political Battlefield
An ongoing debate in American political science regards the dispositions of the factions within American society towards one another; some scholars argue that a culture war obtains,…
Mass Communication and Pluralism
Eric Voegelin’s 1956 essay “Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy” is of tremendous worth to the careful analyst of 21st century American political thought. It…
Dominium v. Auctoritas: Nihilism and the Political Community
Anamnesis is a remembering or recollection of the orienting truths of existence that ought never to be forgotten. Mircea Eliade, in his Myth and Reality, wrote that…
Superhero Ethics
Superhero Ethics. Travis Smith. Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2018. No doubt as soon as there were two superheroes, people asked the question “who would win in…
Luxury: Where Beauty and Morality Meet in Adam Smith’s Economic Theory
What is a luxury face? A London plastic surgeon speaks about the Beautiful Face, a composite of the requests he gets from clients.[1] The chin most desired…
The Friendship and Politics Symposium
Thanks to Steven F. McGuire for organizing the symposium on John von Heyking's book, The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship! Please see the features…
“The Delicate Shimmer of Interlaced Rainbows”: Sunaisthesis, Homophrosynê and a Reply to My Friends
I thank Steven McGuire for organizing this symposium and Lee Trepanier for publishing it here on Voegelinview. Away from the friendships unfriendly that dominate the internet and…
Aristotle and Plato on Friendship
In The Form of Politics, John von Heyking directs his readers to the critical importance of friendship in the political thought of Aristotle and Plato. The title…
The Form of Politics as Friendship
I’d like to take a road trip with John von Heyking. I don’t know if he and I could ever achieve that rare gem which is friendship,…
Contemplating Friendship
John von Heyking’s analysis of friendship in The Form of Politics centers on the Greek concept of sunaisthesis, the triangle of perception and recognition that occurs when…