If anybody is interested, it turns out that _The People of Plato_, a recent book from Hackett by Debra Nails, has an appended dramatic chronology with great...
It seems that Voegelin gathered lots of materials late in his life on prehistoric symbolization and order. Does anybody know if this research got as far as a...
... I've discussed this in years past with Fr. Brendan Purcell, who is quite familiar with this aspect of EV's work. I recall his telling me (if memory...
Most of V's discussion is found in his correspondence with Marie Keonig, whom he considered a gifted amateur. ... From: Jack D. Elliott, Jr....
Barry Cooper
bcooper@...
Mar 2, 2004 7:43 pm
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That is, Koenig. ... From: Barry Cooper [mailto:bcooper@...] Sent: March 2, 2004 12:43 PM To: evforum@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [evforum] Re:...
Barry Cooper
bcooper@...
Mar 2, 2004 7:45 pm
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Dr. Elliott mentioned Brendan Purcell's work The Drama of Humanity. I really enjoyed that one and hope the author is able to complete a treatment of human...
... yes, and i suspect that to a large degree it will remain beyond comprehension. archaeological data is by its very nature skewed toward the material...
Years ago I was able to obtain funding to translate Mrs. Konig's primary work into English. But Mrs. Konig is a very dogmatic Jungian and all of her...
I think Brendan, who is definitely NOT a Jungian, looks at the issue not so much comparatively, but empirically and experientially. The Paleolithicum shows...
... Here's the way that he described his method: "...faced with a symbol or group of symbols at Newgrange, we draw on whatever archaic experiences and...
People will often say things verbally that they are not quite ready to commit to in writing for purposes of academic acceptance. There is certainly an...
I think there is a strong personal impetus behind the investigations of Brendan Purcell, Voegelin and others into the "primary experience" which is that it is...
I have just received volumes 4, 8, and 32 of the Collective works. Among the essays in volume 8 is the article on Max Weber. I was struck with the final...
FMasingill@...
Mar 3, 2004 8:45 pm
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Have any of you heard about or read the book "The Shape of Ancient Thought" by Thomas McEvilley? If so, any recommendations/caveats? tm ===== Is this a great...
Can anyone recall, and if you can, can you cite the instance(s) of where Eric Voegelin uses the expression "contemplative theory" to refer to _theoria_? In...
M.W. Poirier
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Mar 10, 2004 3:08 pm
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"Can anyone recall, and if you can, can you cite the instance(s) of where Eric Voegelin uses the expression "contemplative theory" to refer to _theoria_? In...
EV's text: Reason: theclassical experinece.Who has page 27 of the typoscript of Voegelin's text. When was it written ? Martin Sattler [Non-text portions of...
v.Sivers-SATTLER@...
Mar 12, 2004 10:46 am
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Ellis Sandoz has informed me of the hotel arrangements available ... I consider Chicago to be one of my old stomping grounds. In my view Chicago actually has...
First. Two people have pointed out to me that one "paints the town" or "trips the light fantastic." One does not " paint the light fantastic." Little do they...
In chapter 17 on page 65 of _Autobiographical Reflections_, [copyright 1989], Voegelin writes "...During the 1940s and 1950s, I became gradually aware that...
FMasingill@...
Mar 15, 2004 6:28 pm
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In a meditation on history yesterday It occurred to me strongly that history is, in reality, a search for divine reality. When I reread some of Voegelin's...
FMasingill@...
Mar 30, 2004 12:09 am
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Frank, Knowing you as I do, your statement, "history is ... a search for divine reality", is the result not just of meditation but of meditation as the very...
Voegelin goes to great pains to evoke, instead of stating outright. Which is why reading Voegelin is a bit like taking a Rorschach Test. So if one has not...
... your statement certainly catchs the gist of ev on history, at least the way that i understand it. in OH 4, page 6, ev wrote something very close to it,...
Did Voegelin distinguish, or would he have distinguished, between the following two types of person: 1) a person who uses the Pascalian divertissements (in the...
Assuming the question is not about wine, women, or song, or grave sin, and is only a musing which may or may not be idle, I once wrote a poem many years ago,...
stromthy4 writes (concerning whether EV distinguished between engaging in _divertissements_ as flight into second reality vs a holiday from ... Some years back...
I believe I have told this story a million times by now but I am not sure whether it ever reached evforum. So ... One weekend in his lecture circuit around...
There is a remarkable difference between the "imagined" Voegelin and the "real" Voegelin. The latter was not only keen on reeding modern 'high brow ' novels...
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