“The public interest has shifted from the nature of man to the nature of nature and to the prospects of domination its exploration opened; and the loss of interest even turned to hatred when the nature of man proved to… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore,… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“Omul nu este nevoit sa fie partas la greselile epocii in care traieste” — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“The public interest has shifted from the nature of man to the nature of nature and to the prospects of domination its exploration opened;… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“The death of the spirit is the price of progress. Nietzsche revealed this mystery of the Western apocalypse when he announced that God was dead and that He had been murdered. This Gnostic murder is constantly committed by the men who sacrificed God to civilization. The more fervently all human energies are thrown into the great enterprise of salvation through… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare. — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“This system of chain wars can end only in two ways: either it will result in horrible physical destructions and concomitant revolutionary changes of… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share
“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense of critical analysis. I again refer back to Max Weber as the great thinker who brought that problem to my attention; and I still maintain today that nobody who is an ideologist can be a competent social scientist."… — eric voegelin Copy Share
Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton,… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
