Eric Voegelin and “The Recovery of Political Theory”
My approach to political theory was influenced by Eric Voegelin in courses he taught at Notre Dame in 1965 and 1967. My mentors at Notre Dame (Voegelin,…
My approach to political theory was influenced by Eric Voegelin in courses he taught at Notre Dame in 1965 and 1967. My mentors at Notre Dame (Voegelin,…
As I read newspapers, popular magazines, listen to National Public Radio, watch cable television, attend Catholic Mass, and work with American academics at the deracinated institutions called…
Aristotle (385-322 B.C.) writes in the Nicomachean Ethics that the end of politics is to engender “a certain character in the citizens and to make them good…
The intellectual culture of the philosophes, what Alexis de Tocqueville called esprit revolutionare,[1] is what political theorists today understand is a form of "political religion." The term…
Myths were the common symbolic language of the members of ancient communities. They were not merely tales, but served ancient men as tools by which they interpreted…