Looking at the Big Questions
ERIC O'CONNOR: I remarked to you yesterday that I had found your use of apeiron a bit ambiguous; it meant "limitless" in a good sense at some…
ERIC O'CONNOR: I remarked to you yesterday that I had found your use of apeiron a bit ambiguous; it meant "limitless" in a good sense at some…
The search for the constants of human order in society and history is, at present, uncertain of its language. An older body of concepts is proving inadequate…
In classical philosophy "right by nature" was a symbol, with the help of which the philosopher interpreted his noetic experience of right human action. Through the dogmatization…
In 1943 I had arrived at a dead end in my attempts to find a theory of man, society, and history that would permit an adequate interpretation…
A Letter to Alfred Schütz January 1, 1953 My dear friend, How could I begin the New Year better than with a reply to your kind, so…
A Letter to G. H. Müller January 27, 1978 Dear Mr. Mueller: Your letter, dated Fall 1977, has been lying unanswered on my desk.1 The reason:…
Dear Robert: Your kindness has caused me considerable pangs of conscience. Such attention to detail must have cost you much more time than I had anticipated it…
According to the popular idea, [democracy] is a form of government where the government does what the people want; and the people secure a government which acts…
[In the Critique of Judgement, Kant] explicitly declares "praiseworthy" the efforts to trace morphological kinships with the help of comparative anatomy in order to find a system…
[Through seeking] the divine, the loving reaching out beyond ourselves toward the divine in the philosophical experience and the loving encounter through the Word in the pneumatic…
[Election] law, however, is not an autonomous sphere with its own laws of justice. It does not have the purpose of giving every ethnic group with special…
Dear Beverly:1 Thanks for your charming letter of November 16th. It was a great pleasure indeed, to meet you at last, after we had such extensive relations…
A Forerunner: Helvétius The historian of ideas has to do more than report the doctrine advanced by a thinker or give an account of a few great…
Political science is suffering from a difficulty that originates in its very nature as a science of man in historical existence. For man does not wait for…
Our picture of Greek intellectual history is still substantially influenced by historiographic conventions of the Hellenistic period. The development of philosophical schools in the fourth century b.c.…