... knowledgeable of ... interesting ... leaders of ... I took my son to see this movie (Downfall) as a 16th birthday treat (!) for him. We both found the film...
Gentlemen: Downfall is a gripping movie, though not for altogether good reasons in one reviewer's opinion. In an April 1 review in The Guardian "Stormtrooper...
Silence... Interestingly enough my students and I were silent after the film as well. I think the film shows how ordinary people can be drawn into such...
S. Barret Dolph
wheds8@...
Jul 3, 2005 8:22 am
3748
The Modern Face of Terrorism By: James V. Schall, S.J. A review of Barry Cooper's "New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism" ...
I don't know whether I would be considered an "orthodox Christian believer" or not and since I encountered Voegelin in 1948 I really haven't worried a great...
Frank Masingill
FrankM8@...
Jul 8, 2005 9:30 pm
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I believe I am the one at fault here. But I don't think I said that every Orthodox Christian would take exception to Voegelin's Christology. I don't remember...
Frank, Your point about openness reminded me of William Barrett. He makes a similar point, but poses it in the form of a question : "Is it really the...
Threaded throughout the writings of Eric Voegelin are reminders of the importance of common sense. Common sense appears still to be in short supply when we...
Frank Masingill
FrankM8@...
Jul 10, 2005 12:56 pm
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In a message dated 7/10/2005 8:57:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, FrankM8@... writes: Common sense appears still to be in short supply when we note the...
Someone more on top of Voegelin's writings than I will have to cite the references, but Voegelin ridiculed the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. He...
Regarding space exploration & the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, EV's most charming & telling rebuke is I think in The Ecumenic Age [1974 ed.], pp...
There is another comment on the tendency of space exploration toward concupiscential expansion in OH 5. In a discussion of the roles of 'chora' in the...
Following the SETI discussion, I happened accross this fancy in John Woods' translation of The Magic Mountain: << Was it illcit to think that certain planets...
Could someone elaborate and explain this passage for me? pightle2000 <rhydon@...> wrote: Voegelin writes: "We shudder politely, as always when invited to...
I read it as "We shudder politely [when asked by an atheist], as always, when invited [,when he invites us,] to contemplate the infinity of time, space, or ...
Everyone on the evforum got this message. I assume Mr Pagnan ran into a glitch at Yahoo when he tried to post and the message was returned. Mr Pagnan then...
Some reverence is due to Yahoo, not for rejecting Mr. Pagnan, heaven forfend, but for bouncing the dreadful article he graciously shared with us. If ever we...
I would just like to inform you that M. Pagnan message was never sent to me. I have no idea what the message was about and I do expect to receive all the...
Apparently we have an abberation. Martin Pagnan's message ... Hence Larry Chappell's droll response. May I make an historical note? The weather in the...
Phew! What mysteries reside in the internet cloud! I have been experiencing email problems since last Thursday when, I am told, a construction company...
Does someone have a reference on the influence of Ludwig Von Mises on EV, or vice versa? Is there something in the CW? Thanks. -- No virus found in this...
I believe Voegelin was a member of Von Mises' Geistkreis in Vienna. Graduate and post-doc students would gather together once a week and discuss each other's...
I guess then that there is a topic there, of sorts. It looks like CW33 is the only one which implies that there was an influence of the one for the other....
And from von Moses' side you might want to have a look at _Notes and Recollections_. I also seem to recall, although I cannot put my hand on it at the moment,...
M.W. Poirier
poirmw@...
Jul 28, 2005 12:50 pm
3770
Pages 1, 4 and 5 of Autobiographical Reflections: On page 5: "Third comes the private seminar of Ludwig von Mises, which I attended for many years , until the...
The recent mention of von Mises and von Hayek led me to von Hayek's Nobel lecture in which he goes into detail to explain the mistaken attempt to apply the...
The 60th anniversary of the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima is approaching so its rationale has become topical. Over the years my views on the...
This empirical debate is morally relevant under one of two conditions: 1) "Saving American lives" is a suitable rationale for targeting non-combatants under...
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