A happy and prosperous new year to all. I just ran across this comment from EV on the US electoral college system. It would have been apposite six weeks ago,...
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Mark Theodoropoulos
mtheo@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:54 pm
... Coming from the open Danubian plain twice an exile, he took upon his own broad shoulders a task too heavy for any, a Question for a wall of books -- the...
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Al Pierson
allarpie@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:29 pm
Frankfurter Rundschau 03.01.2000 http://www.f-r.de/fr/140/t140008.htm Heil im Unheil der Moderne Vor 100 Jahren wurde der Politikwissenschaftler Eric Voegelin...
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Frederick Wagner
fwagner@...
Jan 3, 2001 7:11 pm
This Geburstag memorial just goes to show that Gilbert Weiss was right in his assessment of German perspectives on Eric Voegelin in his Fall 2000 REVIEW OF...
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stan zylowski
stanz@...
Jan 4, 2001 4:44 pm
Sorry, I have not followed this post, but I have used Roaring Penguin to help me with Ethernet configuration and connecting with DSL modem. ...
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S. Barret Dolph
white129@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:27 pm
Just out of curiosity how many on this list are Linux users? Cordially, S. Barret Dolph Taipei Taiwan...
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S. Barret Dolph
white129@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:34 pm
If any in the list will be giving a talk at the annual conference, I have a favor to ask of you. My manager and I will both be attending. While her English is...
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Mark Theodoropoulos
mtheo@...
Jan 5, 2001 9:03 am
By a slightly grotesque coincidence, just one day after the centennial of a great American contemporary philosopher (well, all right, German-born ...
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Mark Theodoropoulos
mtheo@...
Jan 7, 2001 8:45 am
I've received a very gracious request to share something to which I alluded in a previous posting, the "Eric Voegelin Method" of reading the Wall Street...
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Frederick Wagner
fwagner@...
Jan 7, 2001 4:33 pm
Mark, This was a wonderful piece. I suggest you resend this to the WSJ. It is actually quite a tribute to them and perhaps they will have the good sense to...
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Harter, Nathan W.
nharter@...
Jan 7, 2001 10:01 pm
Just a heads-up for those who might want to reach a new audience. I have read the Voegelin essay on "The Turn of the Screw" and thought there might be a fit...
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G Ellis Sandoz
esandoz@...
Jan 8, 2001 4:56 pm
Fritz: As requested by Geoff per editing. Ellis ... 01/08/2001 10:50 AM --------------------------- "Geoff Price" <MFRSTGLP@...> on 01/08/2001...
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stan zylowski
stanz@...
Jan 8, 2001 8:09 pm
I am indebted to Father James V. Schall of Georgetown University for introducing me to Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss. I was just an ordinary student who was...
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Frederick Wagner
fwagner@...
Jan 8, 2001 11:06 pm
Yes, I thought enough of ANOTHER SORT OF LEARNING to buy it and keep it on the shelf. It gave me reasurance in a lonely time that EV was still appreciated....
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Frederick Wagner
fwagner@...
Jan 9, 2001 4:15 pm
I am very pleased to report that Geoff Price has joined the evforum. Many of you will remember the sadness with which we received word that he had left the old...
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Geoff Price
geoff.price@...
Jan 9, 2001 4:23 pm
Colleagues: Here below again is the information concerning the new Bibliography, plus some hints on how best to obtain it. Anticipating problems with the...
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Heilke
theilke@...
Jan 10, 2001 6:41 pm
Professor Price, I'm so pleased to hear you are back on your feet! Please accept my condolences for the trial and my congratulations for having withstood it. I...
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Bill McClain
wmcclain@...
Jan 11, 2001 8:54 pm
I have encountered hints in reading Voegelin of a meaning of "tolerance" rather different from the current usage. Commonly, tolerance is founded on skepticism....
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Dan Knauss
tiresias@...
Jan 12, 2001 5:24 am
Bill, Thanks for your comments on tolerance and "The Tensions in the Reality of Knowledge"--they've provoked some ruminations of my own, the length of which I...
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Rhydon Jackson
rhydon@...
Jan 12, 2001 1:57 pm
I want to thank Bill and Dan for their comments. The subject is an important one, it seems to me, and I think they have indicated some of the major elements...
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Dan Knauss
tiresias@...
Jan 12, 2001 7:25 pm
Rhydon is right--I neglected to mention that, yes, some opinions have to be rejected. In my classroom example, that would be things like skepticism and...
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Richard Geldard
rgeldard@...
Jan 13, 2001 12:47 pm
On Tolerance (and limits) Interesting discussion - when to continue what may turn into endless circular debate and when to shut the door. Emerson had a good...
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Frederick Wagner
fwagner@...
Jan 21, 2001 3:37 pm
I am struck by the Voegelinian tone and content (in otherwords, good philosophical anthropology) that permeates Mr. Bush's Inaugural Address. I have not read...
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FMasingill@...
Jan 21, 2001 5:16 pm
In a message dated 1/21/2001 9:37:40 AM Central Standard Time, fwagner@... ... As a matter of fact, Fritz, the very opening line hit me right in the gut as...
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G Ellis Sandoz
esandoz@...
Jan 21, 2001 7:53 pm
Interesting reaction. I found W's words sound and not in discord with EV's understanding of things political. Some education helped shape his inaugural...
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Harter, Nathan W.
nharter@...
Jan 21, 2001 8:10 pm
I wondered what the following book might be, inasmuch as I've never seen it in any proposed listing of the collected works. Collected Works Of Eric Voegelin:...
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G Ellis Sandoz
esandoz@...
Jan 21, 2001 8:14 pm
Beats me. Never heard of it. Ellis "Harter, Nathan W." <nharter@...> on 01/21/2001 01:58:50 PM Please respond to evforum@egroups.com To:...
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Geoff Price
geoff.price@...
Jan 22, 2001 12:47 pm
Colleagues: I have a further suggestion which may help those not resident in Germany, to purchase the new Voegelin Bibliography. Max Hueber Verlag, the...
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Jack D. Elliott, Jr.
jde3@...
Jan 22, 2001 2:55 pm
A somewhat tangential thought: I once heard that Laura Bush was asked as to what is her favorite item of literature. She answered that it was Dostoevsky's...
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Mtheo
mtheo@...
Jan 22, 2001 7:03 pm
I am very happy to see in today's Wall Street Journal two letters vigorously disputing Roger Scruton's elevation of W.V.O. Quine and logicism in general to the...
