Was Hayek a Gnostic?
University of Calgary political scientist Tom Flanagan’s treatment of Friedrich Hayek raises important questions regarding Hayek’s fundamental understanding of politics and history. On the one hand, Hayek’s…
University of Calgary political scientist Tom Flanagan’s treatment of Friedrich Hayek raises important questions regarding Hayek’s fundamental understanding of politics and history. On the one hand, Hayek’s…
St. Augustine and Varro's Civil Theology It is curious that both Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, while bitterly engaged in the struggle for existential representation of Christianity,…
He knew in advance what O'Brien would say. That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority.…
The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn Toward Existence. James Greenaway. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012. James Greenaway’s book The Differentiation of Authority:…
The Crisis of Modernity. Augusto Del Noce with Carlo Lancellotti, ed. and trans. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2014. An important book has been published. Let us…
The address which I am to deliver to you today was originally not planned as part of this series of lectures on "The German University and the…
Perhaps as many as a dozen-and-a-half Republicans will line up over the next year in an effort to become President of the United States. If past experience…
The foundation for a Voegelinian understanding of 21st-century jihadism has been laid by Michael Franz and Barry Cooper, Franz’s work in relation to modern ideology in general,…
The Struggle between Man and his Soul As the purpose of this inquiry is not a description of symbols but an analysis of the experiences engendering them,…
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…
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…
On first reading, Maidenhair stymies the reader, but in a good way for it challenges the reader to engage itself. Since Maidenhair is like a whirling merry-go-round…
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…