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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Eric Voegelin"”.
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Political philosophy and the divine ground : Eric Voegelin on Plato.
… by examining how the political philosopher Eric Voegelin approached the Platonic texts. I argue that Voegelin's approach to Plato is distinct from other twentieth-century interpretations inasmuch as Voegelin understood Platonic philosophy as a divinely-inspired quest for the ground of being. …
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Faith seeking understanding : the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.
This thesis is a study of the philosophy of Eric Voegelin with particular focus on the relationship between noetic differentiation (particularly Greek philosophy) and pneumatic differentiation (particularly Christianity). The thesis begins with an examination of the recovery of transcendence in …
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Losing the Cosmos: Arendt and Voegelin on the Origins of Modernity
Engaging the work of Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin, two foundational twentieth-century political philosophers, I examine the historical origins of the loss of cosmos, interpreted here as the ongoing crisis of modernity characterized by alienation and Gnosticism. Three themes are discussed with …
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The Problem of Coming to Terms with the Past: A Post-Holocaust Theology of Remembrance
… philosophical critiques of Theodor Adorno and Eric Voegelin. It then extends these critiques into the ongoing discussion of post-Holocaust philosophy and theology, while introducing the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead as a helpful and appropriate means for continuing …
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Race follows the American flag: A critique of the United States foreign policy during the Philippine-American War
The intention of Race Follows the American Flag is to examine the political idea of power: the creation of the United States cultural identity and how that cultural identity creates both an imperialist focal point and also a foreign policy based on the racial composition of subjugated and would-be …
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Eric Voegelin's thought and its significance for political theology
The philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901-85) held that at the heart of an adequate political philosophy must be a philosophy of consciousness. This study discusses Voegelin's thought in its significance for "political theology", by which is understood that mode of theological thinking which focuses on …
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Thinking Together about the Common Good: The Political Implications of Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Conscience
… concept, viz. anamnesis. Political philosopher Eric Voegelin has also proposed this term as a way of understanding human nature qua rational and political. This chapter considers both the possibility and implications of this alternative term for the primary level of conscience and helps to …
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Fragile Normativity and the Politics of the Social Sciences, c. 1940-1975
… was founded upon a humanistic rejection of American social scientific method, this dissertation argues that skepticism about the social sciences was far more complicated and wide-ranging from the 1940s to 1970s. Many figures, not just émigrés, began to question the methodological and …
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Being otherworldly in the world: Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics and politics
… Oakeshott's conception of "Rationalism" to Eric Voegelin's idea of "Gnosticism."