Eric Voegelin as a Master Teacher
1. Voegelin presented himself as someone who knew his business and based on a solid conviction that Greek philosophy is the foundation of political science: the lecture…
1. Voegelin presented himself as someone who knew his business and based on a solid conviction that Greek philosophy is the foundation of political science: the lecture…
The Constitution of the United States, in its Article VI “Supremacy Clause,” announces itself and laws made pursuant thereto to be the “supreme Law of the Land”…
What was Eric Voegelin’s relationship to Christianity? Was Voegelin a Christian? Is his philosophy a Christian philosophy? These complicated personal and scholarly questions must be divided and…
Government Both Political and Royal The greatest English political thinker of the fifteenth century, Sir John Fortescue (ca. 1394-ca. 1477), served as a member of Parliament in…
Autopsy of an Evil Empire Let us be done with muddling explanations for the collapse of socialism and admit that it fell because the poetry of personal…
I write here in a synoptic way, summarizing themes addressed more fully [elsewhere] for the purpose of concisely clarifying the meaning of Americanism. Let me open with…
The principal work by Voegelin written in the final years of his life and published posthumously includes the final volume of Order and History, entitled In Search…
The fascinating correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin raises more questions than it answers, if merely taken by itself.l To be sure, a number of extremely…
While virtually everyone has agreed that the American founding and the generation that achieved it were extraordinary, of towering significance and formative importance in modern history, what…
In his personal and scholarly demeanor, Eric Voegelin’s stance was overtly and explicitly that of a philosopher and teacher professing truth and resisting corruption. The mark of…
When a number of Voegelin enthusiasts get together, good things can happen! Today VoegelinView begins its life as an internet journal of Voegelin thought and conversation. With…