Max Weber and Positivism
The movement of methodology, as far as political science is concerned, ran to the end of its immanent logic in the person and work of Max Weber.…
The movement of methodology, as far as political science is concerned, ran to the end of its immanent logic in the person and work of Max Weber.…
In the form of smart phones and Martian rovers, modernity presents itself as the age of "miracles"–miracles which are entirely man-made. These miracles are the expression of…
The Foundations of the Scientific Method What we call the natural sciences emerged only in Western civilization which in turn was built on the experiences of Greek…
And now let me take up some of the principles I have discerned, or believe to have discerned [in Heilman's then new book on Othello, entitled Magic…
As you know, the term theology was invented by Plato. There was no theology before him; it's a new term. (Every term was new at some time.)…
I especially want to draw your attention to the problem that the gods are intracosmic. There is no such thing as a world-transcendent God in any cosmological…
An Economist looks at Voegelin's "Democracy and Industrial Society" Eric Voegelin delivered his lecture "Democracy and Industrial Society" in 1963. Despite this lecture having been delivered nearly…
Turgot [1727-1781] transposes the Christian dichotomy of [sacred history, which does have meaning] and profane history [which can have no meaning because its whole is not yet…
The Novelist as Pathologist Why did the disasters of the twentieth century happen? By “disasters” we mean the enslavement of nations to totalitarian regimes, the exterminations of…
Living Under the Spell of Heidegger Modern intellectual discourse is still under the spell of the Heideggerian project. Once it had broken away from its German moorings,…
In surviving letters we can often find those candid expressions that help us complete a portrait of the writer. Such is the case with the publication of…
The transfer of authority from Athens to Plato is the climax of the Gorgias. The meaning of the transfer and the source of the new authority, however,…
Heidegger's Place in Modern Philosophy Martin Heidegger was the culminating figure of twentieth-century philosophy. For better or worse he is the one who carries philosophy forward to…
Do you ask to be conscious of this freedom? But do you also consider that all your consciousness is only possible via your freedom and that the…
Why Voegelin and Kierkegaard? Why Voegelin and Kierkegaard? Both of them have pursued an intricate analysis of the structure of existence and of the various possibilities of…