The Real Origins of Just War Theory
If you are a man who leads, Who controls the affairs of the many, Seek out every beneficent deed, That your conduct may be blameless. Great is…
If you are a man who leads, Who controls the affairs of the many, Seek out every beneficent deed, That your conduct may be blameless. Great is…
In recent weeks, I have been vexed by distinct, if brief, moments of discomfort about the roughly one thousand books in my possession. While escorting a plumber…
Now I begin Semper incipiens, To sit and drink my wine Beneath this obelisk, the son of pride. Nor mind nor will incline To know how I…
In a previous article published in VOEGELINVIEW, “On The Philosophy of Mircea Eliade,” I showed that although deeply influenced by the Indian metaphysics he studied in his…
References to the use of “period instruments” are usually reserved for recordings of Baroque music. This is to be expected, given the substantial differences between modern instruments…
Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We…
High rafters, vaulted ceiling, Light streaming through the wall, Beaming inside through angels, From outside where gargoyles crawl. Falling on the baptismal font, A shimmer is thereby…
In our time, people react to questions of the nature of consciousness and the factor of Artificial Intelligence in the same way that previous generations reacted to…
The completion of our recent Eric Voegelin week, looking back at Voegelin's thought through previously published essays, articles, and book reviews, was a great success. It is…
In his Autobiographical Reflections, Eric Voegelin recounted the moment when he had abandoned writing a history of political ideas to write a history of political order rooted…
Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin are two of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century. With similar background and stories (both Germans who fled from Nazism…
One of the big takeaways of Voegelin’s philosophy is the insight that our symbolizations of divinity emerge not as the affirmation of a fact, but as the…
In The Australian, July 22-23, 2023, there was an article by John Carroll titled Death of the Humanities. Carroll began by observing that in some American universities,…
Introduction[1] The constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany was adopted on May 23, 1949, about four years after the end of World War II.[2] Its official…
On March 12, 1938, German soldiers began crossing the border between Germany and Austria. It was an invasion. The Austrian government was in total disarray. Pro-Nazi sympathizers…