The Intercollegiate Studies Institute <http://www.isi.org/>is distributing copies of its softbound edition of Michael Federici's /Eric Voegelin/ to its...
An interesting article referencing Ellis and EV appeared yesterday in our local newspaper. I have attacted the article as two html files (page one and two of...
please be so kind as to send those two pages privately. In your local newspaper! Now that's a feat! Best and thanks, CM _____ From: evforum@yahoogroups.com...
... martin, yahoo doesn't permit attachments to go through their listserves. if you would like, send them to me, and i'll post them in the evforum files. jack ...
Voegelin and Ellis Sandoz featured in Ottawa Citizen editorial. JvH -- ____________________________ John von Heyking, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of...
When George Nash was preparing his history of a postwar American intellectual conservative movement, he wrote Voegelin soliciting a photo for the book. ...
I am never certain why philosophy precludes allying oneself with a political point of view, preferring one to another at a given moment in time or on specific...
I entirely agree with Mr. Harter here. The burden of my post was to suggest that Mr. Warren's editorial falls way below the standards of the responsible...
EV was a man of substance. In most of academia EV is unofficially but factually ostracized. In my experience, it is almost impossible to find an academic who...
My students ask me if the passages on Thomas Morus (Vol.22 HI, § 5) could be applied to the present debacle of american foreign policy, as they cast a light...
martinsattler
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In a message dated 11/11/2006 8:48:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Hmmh....is it possible to be excessively greedy for justice ? I suspect Martin's students...
It's not clear at all that there is a debacle in American foreign policy or military policy in Iraq, because we are still in the middle of it. We cannot...
Left un-argued in all this is the very justification for our military operations in the middle East in the first place. And to think that a member of the...
In a message dated 11/11/2006 11:13:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... The broader question has to do with the purpose and direction of a democratic state's...
Saw Dawkins on C-Span and here is an obvious case of a physical scientist who is a very bad philosopher. His level of analysis is just infantile, based on a...
Thanks for the considered reponse. Any number of matters have either been left unaddressed or have been re-opened by the terms of address. Perhaps as a...
A teacher in church class this morning seemed to claim that ancient people (including specifically early Christians) were for the most part "literalists" when...
The problem comes in when your modernist, deconstructionist teacher compares literalism to metaphor, as if they are two opposites. In our post-modern,...
Actaully, tons of yellow cake were shipped out of Iraq to the U.S. after the invasion. Tons. I cannot even begin to catalogue the ideological shibboleths...
Dear Mr. Jones (and Mr. Myers), First, I concur with your about the ancients take on the importance of the symbolic reading of scripture. I ask for your...
Right -- Augustine's fourfold method is the place to start answering this question. Really, any good hermeneutics textbook will give you this history and a...
Our university will be starting a study group on EV and Strauss. Has anyone participated in such a forum? Any suggestions or advice for proceeding? My own...
S.Barret Dolph
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Nov 14, 2006 7:21 am
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If I may give a suggestion: the differences and interrelations in their approach to Max Weber is also very instructive. Leo Strauss had a biased and negative...
Szakolczai, Arpad
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Nov 14, 2006 7:46 am
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My students are mostly Americans, Pepperdine University, International Program Heidelberg, but also Germans. All I wanted to ask was, if EV experts do read §...
martinsattler
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Nov 14, 2006 10:41 am
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There is a helpful paper comparing Strauss and Voegelin on Machiavelli by Athanasios Moulakis: http://ept.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/3/249 It appeared...
Just a brief excerpt from St. Clement to indicate the non-literalistic interpretation of Scripture. This is a standard approach. Let them say where the...
Thanks, Mr. Williams, for your clarifying comments on Paul Ricoeur's applications of hermeneutics, which I was about to attempt myself. As a footnote to your...