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…
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 effort of the Greeks to arrive at an understanding of their humanity has culminated in the Platonic-Aristotelian creation of philosophy as the science of the nature…
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.…
The eighteenth-century revolt, enacted in the name of science and reason against the incubus of doctrinaire theology and metaphysics, was certainly an "epoch," and the unfolding of…
The loss of the concrete is substantially a spiritual disease. With the thinning out of faith into a reverential attitude toward symbols, the meaning of the symbols…
In the series of definitions of democracy I have just given you, I have focused on the question of being human or of not being human. Now…
First, the clichés of the State and of Democracy, clichés that must be removed if we wish to get hold of any kind of political problem at…
The word “metaxy” (μεταξύ) is a Greek preposition, meaning “between.” Normally, Greek philosophers use “metaxy” much as we use “between” in numerous everyday settings, without great significance.…
The Covenants from Abraham to David We will consider here the merits and limitations of covenantal social thinking and ask whether such ideas have relevance today. While…
This excerpt is from a conversation between Eric Voegelin and graduate students following a lecture at the St. Thomas More Institute in Montreal. The participants include Winston…
Terrence Malick’s film, The Tree of Life (2011), is a significant cultural achievement, not only cinematically but also philosophically. Back in 1969, the philosophically inclined Malick produced…
A number of scholars whom I admire and who have been good friends to me have suggested that I would be a satisfactory respondent to another good…
Communication between human beings is the modus procedendi through which a society exists. The fact that the "Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy" are in question…
Exegesis vs. Interpretation While it may be that God is the measure of human beings, Plato is certainly the measure of anything written about God, human beings,…
The wars and revolutions of the twentieth century bring to its end a period that begins with the consolidation of the Western national states in the fifteenth…