Eric Voegelin Quotes on Knowledge
Eric Voegelin was a German-American political philosopher whose work ranged from political theology to a vast philosophy of history. This page collects quotes attributed to Eric Voegelin on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Eric Voegelin:
“Symbols are the means by which existential experience is communicated.”
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Attributed to Eric Voegelin:
“Reason itself is a force in the constitution of human community.”
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“Eric Voegelin (1999), The Collected Works, Vol. 31: Hitler and the Germans , edited and translated by Detlev Clemens and Brandon Purcell, ISBN 0826212166 , p. 200.”
Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club . -
“One can hardly engage in a serious study of medieval Christianity without discovering among its ‘values’ the belief in a rational science of human and social order and especially of natural law . Moreover, this science was not simply a belief, but it was actually elaborated as a work of reason.”
On Max Weber's omission of medieval Christianity