History Quote by Eric Voegelin

“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.” quote by Eric Voegelin — Download Open image

““The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.””

Eric Voegelin

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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…

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“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."…

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