Eric Voegelin Quotes on Politics
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 politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Eric Voegelin:
“Order in society is the reflection of order in the soul.”
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Attributed to Eric Voegelin:
“Modern Gnosticism is the attempt to immanentize the eschaton.”
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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 (1987), The New Science of Politics: An Introduction , ISBN 0226861147 , p. 120”
The course of history as a whole is no object of experience ; history has no eidos , because the course of history extends into the unknown future. -
“Eric Voegelin (1987), The New Science of Politics: An Introduction , ISBN 0226861147 , p. 131”
The death of the spirit is the price of progress. -
“Eric Voegelin (1999), Science, Politics, and Gnosticism in The Collected Works, Vol. 5: Modernity Without Restraint , edited by Manfred Henningsen, ISBN 082621245X , p. 273.”
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning , not a philosophical one.