Eric Voegelin

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Eric Voegelin (1901-85) was a German-born American Political Philosopher. He was born in Cologne and educated in Political Science at the University of Vienna, at which he became Associate Professor of Political Science. In 1938 he and his wife fled from the Nazi forces which had entered Vienna and emigrated to the United States, where they became citizens in 1944. He spent most of his academic career at the University of Notre Dame, Louisiana State University, the University of Munich and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. More information about him can be found under the Eric Voegelin tab on this website.

What is Society?

[Aristotle was plagued by such problems as whether a nation remained the same nation after a revolution]. He applied to the polis the categories of form and…

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What is the Law?

[One prob­lem] will be singled out for present examination: the equivocal use of "the law" in the sense of valid rules made by or­gans of government and…

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