Remembering Ellis Sandoz
My Doktorvater is dead. G. Ellis Sandoz went to the Great Beyond on September 19th. I met Ellis 31 years ago and indeed the German word Doktorvater captures well the relationship…
In Memoriam: Ellis Sandoz
Ellis Sandoz was my first American friend. It is almost fifty years since I got off the Greyhound bus that brought me to East Texas State University…
Commentaries on the Work of Eric Voegelin
The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction. Ellis Sandoz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981; Second Edition, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000. Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of…
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…
Ellis Sandoz as Master Teacher
Professor Ellis Sandoz, the Hermann Moyse, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies,…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Ellis Sandoz
In my previous essay about Eric Voegelin, I wrote how Voegelin became a model of thinking devoid of ideological rant in the student’s quest for the true,…
Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy
Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy. Ellis Sandoz. St. Augustine’s Press, 2013. Ellis Sandoz’s Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy is a…
Ellis Sandoz: Read Carefully, Think Deeply, Converse Wisely, and Live Prudently
Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy. Ellis Sandoz. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2013.[1] “And I too am a painter.”[2] Montesquieu invokes these…
Eric Voegelin’s Contribution to American Political Science
At first glance, Eric Voegelin’s contribution to the discipline of Political Science appears negligible when compared to other European émigré scholars of the same period, such as…
Liberty under Law: The Anglo-American Experience
This video is an informal Independence Day luncheon talk at University Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in observation of July 4th, 2014, by Professor Ellis Sandoz.
The Reality of Politics and the Relevance of Voegelin (Part II)
Ellis Sandoz and the Foundations of American Liberty To a considerable extent, Voegelin was led to prefer such words as “reality” and “divine reality” to more popular…
The Reality of Politics and the Relevance of Voegelin (Part I)
It was a day in early September 2012. I went to see a friend at All Sages Bookstore, perhaps the most popular bookshop among intellectuals in Beijing.…
Some Reflections on the American Constitution
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”…
Voegelin’s Relationship to Christianity
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…
Sir John Fortescue: Securing Liberty Through Law
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…