Thomas More and Murderous Idealism
Nevertheless, with all due allowance for More's critical intentions and personal reservations, there remains, as in the case of his other institutional devices [as set forth in…
Young Voegelin in America
A Well-Thought-Out Program of Study During its brief period of operation, from 1918 to 1929, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, according to Robert M. Hutchins, “did more…
More’s Utopia and Pride
Superbia without restraint is More's accusation against the society of his time. The problem is fundamentally the same as that of Erasmus, but More's horizon is much…
Beginning the Quest: Law and Politics in the Early Work of Eric Voegelin
“Inside baseball” has become a metaphor to describe sports reporters who rely on locker room gossip rather than what happens on the playing field. There is an…
A Visit with Lissy Voegelin
In October of 1992, I decided to visit my son who was then living in Oakland, California. Oakland is across the bay from San Francisco and I…
Voegelin’s Question of the Ground
Voegelin's notion of the differentiation of consciousness may be clarified by setting it off against what he considers to be the foundational structure of consciousness that does…
Order and History in Bavaria
Let me give you a brief summary of some of what I heard at the conference on “Eric Voegelin: Ordnung und Geschichte” at the Catholic Academy in…
The Genealogy of Islamic Terrorism
There are major differences between the way that the political implications of Islam have been worked out historically and the political order of liberal, constitutional democracy. It…
Some Memories of Eric Voegelin at Notre Dame
Watching TV You understand it was 1960 and I was a nineteen year old undergraduate. To give you the setting: Our class was held in the auditorium…
The Beginning of the Beginning
As I am putting down these words on an empty page, I have begun to write a sentence that, when it is finished, will be the beginning…
We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us!
We have met the enemy and they are ours. —Oliver Hazard Perry, letter to General Harrison after the victory over the British fleet at Lake Erie, 1813.…
Freedom of Conscience
The humanists may well be right if they do not follow the classical philosophers in developing principles based on the bios theoretikos, or Christian thinkers into a…
Radical Alienation in Western Civilization and the Modern Apocalyptic Mood
[In Western civilization] there is nothing on which one can fall back. As distinguished from a Greek civilization or Egyptian civilization, there is no archaism, for instance,…
Some Parts of a Larger Whole: David J. Levy and Hans Jonas
Hans Jonas: The Integrity of Thinking. David J. Levy. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002. David Levy's Earlier Scholarship David J. Levy describes his own…
The Pauline Vision of the Resurrected
1. The Pauline Theophany The potential of distortion through metastatic imagination, it should be understood, is inherent to the mystery of meaning. If the mystery were not…