As we saw at the end of part one of this essay Voegelin’s anti-foundationalism is obviously something of a fragile and quixotic venture. Steven McGuire is not…
Plato’s allegory of the cave appears in Book VII of Plato’s most famous and longest dialog, The Republic. Plato’s dialogs frequently star Plato’s teacher Socrates as a…
Periodically, some group of people come up with what seems to them to be the secret to human happiness; the end of marriage and the birth of…
While images of philosophers floating among the clouds, untethered from real-world concerns, or falling into wells while gazing at the stars, having allowed their abstract speculations to…
In the Gorgias, like the Protagoras, Socrates must confront one of the great figures of his time, Gorgias of Leontini, who is not merely a rhetorician, but…
Teaching and Learning[1] In Guide to Thomas Aquinas, Josef Pieper points out that Aquinas was attracted to the Order of Preachers, in good part, because of his…
I propose an inquiry into what Hans Jonas once called the “built-in, automatic utopianism” of our thought and actions. Jonas suggests that this “utopian drift” inheres in…
The discussion which follows is intended to provide more evidence for what a number of scholars have recently been contending about Lawrence’s fundamental ontological vision. It derives…
Logos and Mythos in Plato’s Dialogues Metaphor and analogy are a preparation for examining the status and function of mythos in Plato. What does it mean that…
Plato’s Mythoi: The Political Soul’s Drama Beyond. Donald H. Roy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. In Plato’s Mythoi, the Political Soul’s Drama Beyond, Donald H. Roy…
Probably the most famous letter writer of the ancient world was Cicero. In 59 B.C., Cicero wrote to Gaius Scribonius: “There are many sorts of letters. But…
A recurring theme in Plato’s dialogues, including his Seventh Letter, describes the education of a young man who wants to achieve the highest things, which he considers…
Socrates and Divine Revelation. Lewis Fallis. Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2018. In the landscape of political philosophy today, one is fairly hard-pressed to find any…
Socrates describes the “Ideal City” early in Bk. II of the Republic. Glaucon is not satisfied with the constitution. He says that “you make the people feast…
I thank Steven McGuire for organizing this symposium and Lee Trepanier for publishing it here on Voegelinview. Away from the friendships unfriendly that dominate the internet and…
