Challenging Plato’s Platonism
Disentangling Plato from the Eleatic Stranger The two articles I am discussing today–James Rhodes’ “The Real Name of the Stranger: The Meaning of Plato’s Statesman” and Zdravko…
Obedience to the Law
The Ought is not itself a "postulate" or a "norm" but the experienced tension between the order of being and the conduct of man. In the orbit…
The Order of Society and its Tensions
We are faced with the following aporia: on the one hand, the law is manifest phenomenally in a plurality of legal orders understood as aggregates of valid…
Plato’s Critique of “Platonism” in the Sophist and Statesman: A Post-Voegelinian Reading
The Origins of Platonism The dramatic appearance of the Eleatic Stranger in the Theaetetus / Sophist / Statesman trilogy is generally taken as the moment a robust…
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…
The Tory-Whig Climate of Opinion and the American Founding’s Spiritual Deficiencies
Before There were Conservatives and Liberals Partisan polarization, they say, is producing an "existential crisis"–pundit language for "disturbing situation suggesting the end of life as we know…
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…
The Enduring Spirit of Hesiod’s Poetry
Hesiod: Theogony; Works and Days. Hesiod with C.S. Morrissey, trans. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2012. Speaking of the need to read an author in his original language, Eric…
Revelation, Community, and Corrupt Scholarship from Conversations
The following is a transcript of a discussion held at the Thomas More Institute on November 9, 1970. Participants were Eric Voegelin, Erin O'Connor, Charlottee Tansey, and…
The Role of Dogma in History from Conversations
The following is a transcript of a discussion held at the Thomas More Institute on November 9, 1970. Participants were Eric Voegelin, Erin O'Connor, Charlottee Tansey, and…
Explaining the Universe with Physics from Conversations
The following is a transcript of a discussion held at the Thomas More Institute on November 9, 1970. Participants were Eric Voegelin, Erin O'Connor, Charlottee Tansey, and…
Deformations in History from Conversations
The following is a transcript of a discussion held at the Thomas More Institute on November 9, 1970. Participants were Eric Voegelin, Erin O'Connor, Charlottee Tansey, and…
Prehistoric Time from Conversations
The following is a transcript of a discussion held at the Thomas More Institute on November 9, 1970. Participants were Eric Voegelin, Erin O'Connor, Charlottee Tansey, and…
Recovering Reality: An Interview with Eric Voegelin
In 1973 Eric Voegelin was interviewed by Peter Cangelosi, associate editor of the New Orleans Review, and by John William Corrington, former editor-at-large. The interview originally appeared…
The Fatal Flaws in Positivism
As a consequence [of positivist assumptions], all propositions concerning facts will be promoted to the dignity of science, regardless of their relevance, as long as they result…