Adiaphora, 149
Adikon, adikia, 149
Adler, Alfred, 37
Ad litterarum studia, 149
Adventures of Ideas (Whitehead), 58
Aftalion, Albert, 62
Agnoein, 149
Agnoia, 149
Aition, aitia, 149
Akribeia, 149
A la Recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 63
Alchemy, 65
Aletheia, 149. See also Episteme
Alexander the Great, 129, 162, 175
Alienation: definition of, 125; and deformation, 124–25, 131; and philosophy of history, 127; and second reality, 122; and Stoics, 101–2, 125
Alle bisherige Geschichte, 149
Alogos, 150
Amathes, amatheis, 150
Amathia, 150
Amator sapientiae, 150
Amicitia, 150. See also Caritas
Amour-de-soi, 94
Analogia entis, 150
Analogy of being, 150. See also Mystery (mysterium)
Anamnesis, 150
Anamnesis (Voegelin): and consciousness, 97; contents of, 64; on human nature, 162; on index, 164; Monk of Heisterbach in, 97; on ratio, 176; on Thing-reality, 182; and Voegelin’s teaching style, 7; writing and publication of, 16, 17
Ananke, 150
Anaximander, 151
Andersen, Hans Christian, 97
Andreia, 150
Anima mundi, 150
Anima rationalis et intellectiva, 151
Anoia, 151
Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, 160
Anthropeioi nomoi, 151
Anthropina, ta, 151
Anthropogony, 151
Anti-Americanism, 14
Apeiron, 151. See also Peiras, ta peirata
Aphtharsia, 145, 147, 151. See also Immortalizing
Apocalypse of man, 94
Apodictic, 151
Apolaustikos (bios), 151
Apology (Plato), 20
Aporein, 151
Aporia, 151
Apperception, 151
Apperzeptionsverweigerung, 122–23
Aquinas, Thomas. See Thomas Aquinas
Arche, 151
Arendt, Hannah, 47
Arete, 151
Ariste politeia, 175
Ariston, 151
Aristotle, 105, 133; on athanatizein, 145, 147, 164; on bios theoretikos, 152; on causality, 152; on dianoia, 155; on energeia, 157; on entelechy, 157; etiological argument of, 76, 77; on euthyoria, 159; on existential order, 126; on experience, 159; on form, 160; on homonoia, 162; on human nature, 185–86; on idiotes, 163; on metaphysics, 167; and meta ta physica, 105; on myth, 173; and noetic differentiation, 135; on Nous, 133, 170; on ousia, 171; peripatetic associated with, 172; on philomythos, 133, 173; on phronesis, 174; on polis, 175; on spoudaios (aner), 179; on synetos, 174; on telos, 180; on thaumazein, 181; on theoria, 181; Voegelin’s study of, 34, 67; Voegelin’s teaching of, 3
—Work: Metaphysics, 3, 105, 133
Aspernatio rationis, 151
Astrology, 65
Athanatizein, 152. See also Aphtharsia; Exodus; Immortalizing
Augustine, Saint, 11, 20, 94, 150
Austria: Christian Socialist party in, 68; civil war in, 53, 67–68, 79; constitution making in, 80–81; German occupation of, 70, 79; Kelsen’s drafting of constitution (1920) in, 48; Social Democratic party in, 32–33, 68–69, 111–12; Voegelin’s emigration from, 16, 70–72, 82–83 Austrian Institut für Geschichtsforschung, 31
Austrian School of Marginal Utility, 31
Authoritarian State (Voegelin): on ideologies, 69; overview of, 79–81; publication of, 69, 79, 81
Autobiographical Reflections (Voegelin): on allotriosis, 150; on apostrophe, 151; on consciousness, 154; on egophanic revolt, 157; on luminosity, 167; on metaxy, 168; on order, 171; overview of, 15–22; reviews of, 20–21; and Sandoz’s interviews of Voegelin, 17–20; writing and publication of, 17, 18
“Autobiographical Statement at Eighty-Two” (Voegelin), 20
Averroës (Ibn Rushd), 80
Axis-time, 129
Bakunin, Mikhail, 90
Balance of consciousness, 152
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 53, 92
Baumgarten, Eduard, 40
Baur, Ferdinand Christian, 92–93
Bayazid I, 64
Beginning and beyond, 152
“Beginning and the Beyond: A Meditation on Truth” (Voegelin), 177, 180, 184–85
Berith, 152
Bertram, Ernst, 44
Between, the. See Metaxy
Beyond, 152. See also Parousia
Beziehungslehre, 54
Bios theoretikos, 152
Blacks: in the United States, 142
Bloch, Ernst, 72
Bloch, Mrs. Ernst, 72
Bloom, Arthur, 21
Bodek, Hermann, 67
Bodin, Jean, 64, 65, 138–39, 178, 184
Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen, 31
Böhme, Jakob, 93
Brunner, Otto, 32
Brunschvicg, Léon, 62
Buddha, 129
Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn), 119
Caritas, 152, 160. See also Amicitia; Fides formata
Causa materialis, efficiens, formalis, finalis, 152
Chicago Oriental Institute, 90, 98, 120
Chou Dynasty, 91
Christ. See Jesus Christ
Christianity: and Blessedness or Beatitude, 180; on caritas, 152; on eschaton, 158–59; on homonoia, 162; on hypostasis, 163; and millenarianism, 152; on Paraclete, 171; parallel events between Greek philosophy and, 134–35; on Parousia, 171; and pneumatic differentiation, 134–35; and reason, 134
Christliche Gnosis, Die (Baur), 92–93
Cicero, 168
“Cimetière Marin” (Valéry), 63
Clement of Alexandria, 180
Climate of opinion, 148
Closing of the American Mind (Bloom), 21
Cognitio fidei (or amoris, or spei), 153. See also Fides formata
Cohen, Hermann, 50
Cohn, Norman, 93
Colossians, Epistle to, 174
Columbia University, 52, 56–58
Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Thomas Aquinas), 105
Common sense, 153. See also Noesis; Nous
Common Sense philosophy, 56–57, 153
Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 82, 109
Compact, 153. See also Differentiation of consciousness
Comparative civilizational knowledge, 40–44, 60
Complex of consciousness-reality-language, 153
Concrete, 153
Condicio humana (conditio humana), 154
Condorcet, Marquis de, 127
Confessions (Augustine), 20
Coniuratio, 154
Consciousness: definition of, 154; and divine presence, 137–39; Hegel on, 123–24; Husserl on, 96–97; and In-Between, 98–99; James on, 98; luminosity of, 99; modern conception of, 123–24; and participation, 98; and symbols, 137; theory of, 96–100. See also Existential consciousness; Intentional consciousness; Luminosity; Pure experience; Reflective distance; Tension
Consciousness of kind, 58
Constancy of reality, 133
Consubstantial, 154
Contemptus mundi, 154
Conversio, 154. See also Epistrophe; Periagoge
Cosmion, 154
Cosmological myth, 154
Cosmos, 154. See also Kosmos; Primary experience of the cosmos Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 50
Crowther, Ian, 21
Czechoslovakia, 70
Daimonios aner, 154
Dämonen, Die (Doderer), 122
Death and eschatology, 145, 147
Decline of the West (Spengler), 42
Deculturation, 154–55. See also Deformation
De-divinization, 155
De Descartes à Proust (Lalou), 63
Deformation: and alienation, 124–25, 131; definition of, 155; and ideology, 127; and myth of polis, 125; propositional metaphysics as deformation of philosophy, 124; and refusal to apperceive, 122–23; use of philosophy in recapturing reality from, 118–26. See also Deculturation
Delegationszusammenhang, 48
Demiurge, 138
Democracy, 69
Dempf, Alois, 115
Despotikos, 155
Deux sources de la morale et de la religion, Les (Bergson), 63, 139
D’Evelyn, Thomas, 21
De Vera Religione (Augustine), 11
Dialectic, 155
Dialogue of a Suicide with His Soul, 101
Dianoetic, 155
Dianoia, 155. See also Nous
Dichter als Führer, Der (Kommerell), 44
Differentiation of consciousness, 155
Dikaion, ta dikaia, 155
Dikaiosyne (or dikaiosune), 155
Disputatio, 155
Divina scripta, 155
Divine, the, 156. See also God; Reality, divine
Divine reality. See Reality, divine
Dodds, E. R., 120
Doderer, Heimito von, 113, 122
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 79
Dottrina del Fascismo (Mussolini), 82
Doxa, 156
Doxic thinking, 156
Doxography, 156
Dreimal Österreich (Schuschnigg), 82
Dritte Walpurgisnacht (Kraus), 46
Duguit, Léon, 63
Dvořák, Max, 32
Dynamis, 156
Eckhart, Meister, 138
Eclipse, 156
“Eclipse of Reality” (Voegelin), 75
Ecumene, as symbol, 129. See also Ekumene
Ecumenic Age (Voegelin): on apeiron, 151; on homonoia, 162; overview of, 128–30; writing and publication of, 17
Ecumenicity, 156
Edwards, Jonathan, 60
Egological, 156
Egophanic revolt, 94, 102, 157
Egophany, 157
Egregium et admirandum humanum spectaculum, 157
Egypt, 101
Eidos, 157
Eidos kai morphe, 157
Eikon, 157
Eikos mythos, 157. See also Mystery (mysterium); Myth
Einai, 157
Ekpyrosis, 157
Ekumene (ecumene, oikumene), 157, 185
Eliade, Mircea, 120
Eliot, Jack D., Jr., 149n
Elliot, W. Y. (Bill), 84
Elpis, 157. See also Cognitio fidei (or amoris, or spei)
Empires, 130–31. See also specific empires
Eneinai, 157
Energeia, 157
Engel-Janosi, Carlette, 36
Engel-Janosi, Friedrich von, 35–36
Engels, Friedrich, 109
English revolution, 140
Entelechy, 157
Enthousiasmos, 157
Epekeina, 157. See also Beyond; Transcendence
Epigeos, 157
Episteme, 157–58. See also Aletheia; Theoria
Episteme politike, 158
Epistles (Horace), 183
Epistrophe, 125, 158. See also Conversio; Periagoge
Equivalence, 133
Equivalence of symbols, 158
Eristic, 158
Eros, 158. See also Existential consciousness
Eros tyrannos, 158
Ersatz, 158
Ersatzform, 75
Essai sur les données immediates de la conscience (Bergson), 63
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke), 90
“Eternal Being in Time” (Voegelin), 164
Ethnic-cultural diversity, 131–32
Euboulia, 159
Eudaimonia, 159
Euergesia, 159
Euergetikos, 159
Eunomia, 159
Europe: ethnic-cultural diversity of, 132
Eusynesia, 159
Euthyoria, 159
Eutyches, 159
Evil: Arendt on banality of, 47
Existential consciousness, 159. See also Eros; Truth of existence
Existentialism, 134
Existential psychology, 125–26
Existential tension. See Existential consciousness
Existent reality. See Reality, existent and nonexistent
Exodus, 159
Experience, 159. See also Pure experience; Transcendence, experiences of
Experiences: and ideas, 90, 104–5; and symbols, 121–22
Experiences of transcendence. See Transcendence, experiences of
Fackel, Die (The Torch; Kraus), 45, 46, 78
Faith: definition of, 159; experiential grounding of, 5; metastatic faith, 94–95; nominalist versus mystical faith, 138. See also Fides formata; Metastatic faith; Pistis
Fascism, 68
Federalist Papers, 5
Felix, 160
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 34, 51
Fides formata, 160. See also Cognitio fidei (or amoris, or spei); Faith
Fides informata, 160
Fides quaerens intellectum, 160
Form, 160
Fortuna, 160. See also Tyche
France: and French Revolution, 140; religious civil wars in, 138; riot in Paris (1968), 142; Voegelin’s studies in, 56, 62–65
Frankfort, Henri, 98
Frankfort, Henriette A., 98
Freud, Sigmund: on Eros, 158; Herwig’s study on, 113; on sublimation, 95; on Thanatos, 181; Voegelin’s association with men trained by, 32
Friedemann, Heinrich, 44
From Enlightenment to Revolution (Voegelin), 17
Fruitio Dei, 160
Fuerth, Herbert, 35
Funktionentheorie, 33
Furtwaengler, Philipp, 33
Gaia, 133
Gebhardt, Jürgen, 113
Geistkreis (Spiritual or Intellectual Circle), 34–36
Geltung, 37
Genetics, 52
“German University and the Order of German Society” (Voegelin), 179
Germany, universities in, 116–17
Geschichte des politischen Denkens, 113
Gesinnungsethik, 39
Gezweiung, 54
Giddings, Franklin Henry, 56, 58
Gnoseological, 160
Gnosis, 160. See also Gnosticism Gnosticism: definition of, 160–61; history of, 92–93; and metastatic apocalypse, 93–95; and Parousiasm, 171–72. See also Gnosis
God: death of, 94, 102; and Tetragrammaton, 181; Thomas Aquinas on, 165, 181; Voegelin’s teaching on, 5; Voegelin’s use of term, 161
Goethe (Gundolf), 44
Gorgias (Plato), 157
Greek philosophy: and eschatology, 145, 147–48; parallel events between Israelite-Christian revelation and, 134–35; theophanic core of, 134–35. See also Aristotle; Plato; and other Greek philosophers
Gregarius miles, 161
Ground, 161
Gruenberg, Carl, 32
Grundnorm (basic norm), 48
Gundolf, Friedrich, 44
Gütersloh, Albert Paris, 122
Haberler, Gottfried von, 34, 35, 71, 84
Habitus, 161
Hallowell, John H., 17
Hanak, M. J., 149n
Hartmann, Heinz, 32
Harvard University, 16, 56, 58, 71, 72, 84, 89
Hauriou, Maurice, 80
Havard, William C., 6
Hayek, Friedrich August von, 34, 35
Hedone, 161
Hegel, G. W. F.: on consciousness, 123–24; on death of God, 94, 102; final philosophy of, 96; and hypostatization of reflective consciousness, 184; Marx on, 76; and neo-Platonism, 76, 77; and philosophy of history, 127; and philosophy of religion, 93; premises of, 75–76, 77, 123; Voegelin’s education in, 34
—Works: Phenomenology, 123–24; Philosophy of Law, 76
Heidegger, Martin, 57, 60–61, 171–72
Heimarmene, 161
Henningsen, Manfred, 7n10, 113
Hentze, Carl, 109
Herodotus, 129
Herwig, Dagmar, 113
Herwig, Hedda, 113
Hexis, 161
Hiera anagraphe, 161
Hildebrandt, Kurt, 45
Hinduism, 138
Historici mundiales, 161
Historiomachy, 162
History, advances in historical sciences, 107–9, 128
History of Antiquity (Meyer), 42
History of Caesar’s Fame (Gundolf), 44
“History of Political Ideas” (Voegelin), 17
History of Political Ideas (Voegelin): assumptions underlying, 104; “Astrological Politics” in, 65; Bodin in, 64; publication of, 17n4; value of research for, 106; Voegelin’s dissatisfactions with, 90–91, 104–6; writing of, 90
History of Political Theory (Sabine), 89
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), 127–28
History of the Race Idea from Ray to Carus (Voegelin): banning of, by National Socialists, 53; and biological theory of race, 52–53; and Gestapo search of Voegelin’s home, 83; influences on, 45
Hitler, Adolf: and Austria, 34, 70; Mein Kampf by, 82; success of, 46, 78; U.S. participation in war against, 142; Voegelin’s opposition to, 15
Hitler and the Germans (Voegelin), 7
Homoion, 162
Homo mensura, 162
Homo novus, 162
Hora, 162. See also Opsis; Parousia
Horace, 183
Horizon, 162
Hughes, Glen, 177
Humanisme et Terreur (Merleau-Ponty), 75
Human nature, 147, 162. See also Representative humanity
Human Nature and Conduct (Dewey), 56
Human Nature and Property (Commons), 58
Hupka, 33
Husserl, Edmund, 59, 96–97, 156
Hybris, 162. See also Insolentia; Superbia vitae
Hyle, 162
Hypostasis, hypotases, 99, 163. See also Hypostatizing; Substance
Hypostatizing, 163
Ibn-Khaldun, 113
Ideology: and American students, 85, 114–15; criterion for diagnosis of, 123; and deformation of existence, 127; discrepancies between science and, 109; and dogmatomachy, 139; and intellectual dishonesty, 73–74; and interdict on questioning, 123; and killing of people, 74–75; and language, 45–46, 75, 78; and order and disorder, 127; and refusal to apperceive, 122–23; Voegelin’s opposition to, 73–81; Weber on, 39–40, 74
Idiotes, 163
Ikhnaton, 79
Imago Dei, 163
Immanence, 163
Immanent, 163
Immanentism, 93–94, 163. See also Metaxy; Participation
Immanentization, immanentizing, 163
“Immortality: Experience and Symbol” (Voegelin), 101
Immortalizing, 164. See also Aphtharsia; Exodus
Imperator, 164
Imperium, 164. See also Translatio imperii
In-Between, 98–99, 147, 168. See also Metaxy
Indelible present, 164
Index, 164
India, 129
In novo esse constituuntur ex nihilo, 164
In Search of Order (Voegelin): on anoia, 151; on complex of consciousness-reality-language, 153; on It-reality, 165; on luminosity, 166–67; on Parousia, 171; publication of, 17
Insolentia, 164. See also Hybris; Superbia vitae
Institute of Political Science (Munich), 4–5, 16, 112–17
Institutionalism, 80
Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (Frankfort, Wilson), 98, 154
Intellectus, 164. See also Nous
Intellectus unus, 80
Intentional consciousness, 164. See also Thing-reality
Intentionality, 164. See also Thing-reality
Interaction and Spiritual Community (Voegelin), 54n1
Intuition, 164–65. See also Noesis; Nous; Reason
Ipsum Esse, 165
Ira Dei, 165
Israel and Revelation (Voegelin), 16, 168
Israelites: and metastatic apocalypse, 93, 94–95
Jackson, Robert H., 69
Jäger, Werner, 120
James, William, 98, 99, 168, 176
Jean-Paul (Kommerell), 44
Jesus Christ: as head of all men, 135; incarnate divinity of, 174; and Logos, 135; and pneumatic differentiation, 134; and Second Coming, 137, 146; theophany of, 138; and via dolorosa, 184
John, First Epistle of, 180
Justice Department, U.S., 115
Kaiser Friedrich II (Kantorowicz), 44
Kalokagathia, 166
Kalon, 166
Kanon kai metron, 166
Kant, Immanuel, 50. See also Neo-Kantianism
Kantorowicz, Ernst, 44
Kapital (Marx), 38
Kata physin, 166
Kath homoioteta, 166
Kaufmann, Felix, 34, 35, 36, 48
Kelsen, Hans: and Austrian constitution (1920), 48; and neo-Kantianism, 49, 50; on norm logic, 60; and Pure Theory of Law, 31, 48–51, 81; and Staatslehre (political theory), 49–50; at University of Vienna, 31, 32, 33, 34, 48, 49; Voegelin as assistant to, 67; Voegelin’s differences with, 49–50; on Voegelin’s New Science of Politics, 81
Kerényi, Karl, 120
Kierkegaard, Søren, 105
Kinei (kinein, kineitai), 166
Kineton, 166
Koinai ennoiai, 90
Koinon, 166. See also Xynon
Koinonia politike, 166
Kolberg, Eckard, 113
Kommerell, Max, 44
Kopatschek (mathematician), 38
Kosmokrator, 166
Kosmos, 166. See also Cosmos
Kraus, Karl, 45–47, 69, 78, 113
Kraus, Otto Erwin, 37
Kries, Ernst, 32
Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften (Husserl), 96
Kritike, 166
Kronos, 138
Kuntz, Paul G., 21
Kyriotate episteme kai architektonike, 166
La Fayette, Madame de, 63
Lalou, René, 63
Landshut, Siegfried, 76
Land und Herrschaft (Brunner), 32n1
Language: Humpty-Dumpty philosophy of, 122; and ideology, 45–46, 75, 78; as social phenomenon, 118–19; social stratification of, 86–87; and symbols, 99–100
La Rochefoucauld, Duc de, 64
Law: French theory of, 63
Leap in being, 105
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 151
Lettre à Jean Bautru (Bodin), 138–39, 178, 184
Letzten Tage der Menschheit, Die (Kraus), 46
Leviathan (Hobbes), 79
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 98
Libido dominandi, 166
Locus classicus, 166
Lonergan, Bernard, 179
Long, Huey, 74
Louisiana State University, 3, 5, 6, 16, 49, 86–88, 114, 115
Lozinski, G., 62
LSU. See Louisiana State University
Ludwig-Maximilian University, 3–4, 16
Luminosity, 166–67; of consciousness, 99
Mache athanatos, 167
Mach, Ernst, 31
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 64, 65, 121
Macmahon, Arthur Whittier, 56
Magic, 95
Magie und Manipulation (Vondung), 114
Malista auto, 167
Mankind. See Human nature; Representative humanity
Mannheim, Karl, 57
Mann, Thomas, 120
Mantike, 167
Man without Qualities (Musil), 179
Mao Tse-tung, Madame, 91
Maritain, Jacques, 53
Martin, Mildred, 85
Martin, Roscoe, 85
Marx, Karl: Communist Manifesto by, 82, 109; and etiology in human existence, 76–77; final philosophy of, 96; on Hegel, 76; on history, 149; and interdict on questioning, 123; and Paris Manuscripts (1844), 124; and philosophy of history, 127; on revolution, 146; in Voegelin’s History of Political Ideas, 90; Voegelin’s study of, 38, 52
Marxism: Voegelin’s interest in and rejection of, 38, 39, 52, 74, 111; Weber on, 39
Mass media: on Vietnam War, 143
Matière et Mémoire (Bergson), 63
McClain, William, 149n
McGraw-Hill, 89
Meditation, 167
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 82
Meno (Plato), 150
Me physika all’ anthropina dikaia, 167
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 75
Metalepsis, 167
Metaphysics: Aristotle on, 167; origin of term, 105; propositional metaphysics as deformation of philosophy, 124
Metaphysics (Aristotle): on causality, 152; Commentary on, by Thomas Aquinas, 105; on experience, 159; on metaphysics, 167; myth in, 133; Nous in, 133; on philomythos, 173; Voegelin’s teaching of, 3
Metastatic faith, 94–95, 168. See also Faith
Meta ta physica, 105
Metaxy, 98, 99, 168. See also Immanentism
Methexis, 168
Metis, 168
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 34, 35
Millenarianism, 152
Miseria humanae conditionis, 168
Mochulski, Konstantin V., 62
Modernity, meanings of, 128
Modus deficiens, 168
Morbus animi, 168
Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 56
Morphe. See Eidos; Form
Morstein-Marx, Fritz, 89
Motus amoris, 168
Munich University, 7
“Murder of God” (Voegelin), 172
Murray, Gilbert, 55
Mystery (mysterium), 168–69. See also Analogy of being
Mystery and Myth in the Philosophy of Eric Voegelin (Hughes), 177
Mysticism East and West (Otto), 138
Mystiques politiques, Les (Rougier), 78
Myth: Aristotle on, 105, 133, 173; definition of, 169; Plato on, 157, 169
Mytho-speculation, 169
Mythos synkeitai ek thaumasion, 169
Nabi, 135
National Socialism: Austrian resistance to, 53; banning of Voegelin’s work by, 53, 79; damage of, 116; and firing of Voegelin from University of Vienna, 16, 70, 111; and Kraus, 46–47; and race conception, 52–53, 66; symbolisms of, 79; and University of Vienna, 34; Voegelin’s brief interest in, 70; Voegelin’s opposition to, 70, 72–74, 77–78, 82–83, 85, 111
Nature of the Law and Related Legal Writings (Voegelin), 49n1
Naumann, Michael, 113
Nefanda crudelitas, 169
Neo-Thomism, 53
New School for Social Research, 34
New Science of Politics (Voegelin): on apocalypse of man, 94; on chiliasm, 152–53; on Gnosticism, 161; Kelsen’s critique of, 81; on representation, 178; on scientism, 178–79; on theoria, 181; writing and publication of, 16
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 164, 170
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 90, 94, 95
Nietzsche (Bertram), 44
Noein, 169
Noesis, 169
Noetic. See Dianoetic; Noesis; Nous
Noetic differentiation, 169. See also Reflective distance
Noetic symbols, 169
Noetic vs. pneumatic. See Intentionality; Luminosity; Noetic differentiation; Nous; Pneuma; Pneumatic differentiation; Reason; Revelation
Noeton, 170
Nomikon dikaion, 170
Nomikon, ta nomika, 170
Nomos, 170. See also Theios nomos
Nonexistent reality. See Reality, existent and nonexistent
Normlogik, 50
Northwestern University, 16
Nosos, nosema, 170
Nous: Aristotle on, 133; Christians’ ignoring of, 134; definition of, 170; Plato on, 138. See also Dianoia; Intellectus; Reason
Nous echon, 170. See also Nous; Zoon noun echon
Nulla fortunae varietatis habita ratione, 170
Ochlocracy, 170
Oikoumene. See Ekumene
Old Testament: and Tetragrammaton, 181
“On Debate and Existence” (Voegelin), 183, 184
Onken, Luise Betty. See Voegelin, Luise Betty “Lissy” Onken
On, ta onta, 170
On the Form of the American Mind (Voegelin): contents of, 59–60; and Gestapo search of Voegelin’s home, 83; on Husserl’s conception of consciousness, 96–97; influences on, 45, 59–60; writing and publication of, 66
Opaque, 170
Open existence, openness, 170
Opitz, Peter J., 113
Opsis, 170–71, 184–85. See also Hora
Order: definition of, 101, 171; and logos, 102; and philosophy of history, 127–28
Order and History (Voegelin): and advances in historical sciences, 107–9; background of, 104–9; on ecumenic age, 156; Ecumenic Age in, 128–30; on eros, 158; on eros tyrannos, 185; on form, 160; on historiogenesis, 161–62; on homonoia, 162; on human nature, 185–86; on idiotes, 163; on incarnate divinity of Christ, 174; on It-reality, 165–66; organizational plan for, 106–7; on philomythos, 173; on the question, 176; on secularization, 179; on techne metretike, 180; on Tetragrammaton, 181; on Thanatos, 181; on Thing-reality, 182; on truth of existence, 183; writing and publication of, 16, 17; on xynon (or to koinon), 185; on zetema, 185
Oregesthai, 171
Orekton, 171
Organon, 171
Oriental Institute (Chicago), 90, 98, 120
“Origins of Scientism” (Voegelin), 179
Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (Talmon), 80
Orwell, George, 120
Otto, Rudolf, 138
Ouranos, 133
Ousia, 171
Oxford University, 55
Pagani, 171
Pan, to, 171
Paraclete, 171
Parainesis, 171
Parousia, 171. See also Hora
Participation, 98, 172. See also Immanentism; Thing-reality; Transcendentals
Pathos, 172
Patrikon, 172
Patrios doxa, 172
Paul: and aphtharsia, 145; and metastatic apocalypse, 93; and pneumatic differentiation, 134, 135; and Second Coming, 137, 146
Peiras, ta peirata, 172. See also Apeiron
Peitho, 172
Penia, 172
Percipere, 172
Periagoge, 125, 172. See also Conversio; Epistrophe
Peripatetic, 172
Peri tes physeos, 172
Perlman, Selig, 58
Persian Empire, 129
Phenomena, 172
Pheugein ten agnoian, 172
Philia, 173
Philia politike, 173
Philodoxy, 173
Philosophers, tasks of, 148
Philosophia perennis, 173
Philosophia peri t’anthropina, 173
Philosophy: definition of, 173; and eschatology, 145–48; meaning of, as symbol, 122; propositional metaphysics as deformation of, 124; use of, for recapturing reality, 118–26
Philosophy of history: beginnings of, 127; and Ecumenic Age, 128–30; and eschatology, 147; and ethnic-cultural diversity, 131–32; and In-Between, 147; and order and disorder, 127–28; and orthodox empires, 130–31; and range, constancy, eclipse, and equivalence of truth, 133–36
Philosophy of Law (Hegel): Marx on, 76
Phronema, 173
Phronimos, 174
Physei dikaion, 174
Physikon, 174
Pistis, 174. See also Faith; Fides formata
Plato: on Agathon, 149, 180, 185; on amathia, 150; on anamnesis, 150; on anima mundi, 150; on athanatizein, 145, 147; on being and not-being, 102; on Demiurge, 138; dichotomic nature of concepts of, 119; on doxa, 156; on eikos mythos, 157; on eristic, 158; on Eros, 158; on existential order, 126; on form, 160; on hora, 184; on hyperouranion, 162–63; on justice, 119; on mache athanatos, 167; on metaxy, 98, 99, 168; on myth, 157, 169; and noetic theophany, 135; on Nous, 138, 170, 182; on opsis, 170–71, 184–85; on peitho, 172; on penia, 172; on periagoge, 125, 172; on philodoxos, 173; on philodoxy, 119; on Philosopher versus Sophist, 119; on philosophy, 119, 173; on phronesis, 174; on theoria, 181; Voegelin’s study of, 34, 44–45, 67; on zetema, 185
—Works: Apology, 20; Protagoras, 3
Plato and Aristotle (Voegelin), 16
Pleonexia, 174
Pleroma, 174
Plethos, 174
Pneuma, 174
Pneumapathology, pneumopathology, 174
Pneumatic differentiation, 175
Poietike, 175
Politeia, 175
Political Apocalypse (Sandoz), 113n1
Political Religions (Voegelin), 78–79
Politike episteme, 175
Polybius, 129
Polymythoteros, 175
Polynesian cultures, 109
Polypragmosyne, 175
Poros, 175
Porter, Katherine Anne, 86
Posterior Analytics (Aristotle), 170
Pothos, 175
Powell, Thomas Reed, 58
Present, indelible. See Indelible present
Primary experience of the cosmos, 175
Primary symbolism, 180
Princeps, 175
Princesse de Clèves, La (La Fayette), 63
Prince, The (Machiavelli), 64
Prometheus (Balthasar), 92
Protagoras (Plato), 3
Proton kinoun, 175
Proust, Marcel, 63
Pseude plasmata, 175
Pseudos, 175
Pure Theory of Law, 31, 48–51, 81
Pursuit of the Millennium (Cohn), 93
Quadragesimo anno, 53
Question, the, 176
“Quod Deus Dicitur” (Voegelin), 184
Race and State (Voegelin), 52, 66–67, 83
Rad, Gerhard von, 95
Radiocarbon dating, 108
Rafael (Stein), 44
Ratio, 176
Realissimum, 176. See also Reality, divine
Reality: constancy of, 133; definition of, 176; eclipses of, 134–35; second reality and alienation, 122; systematic falsification of, 102–3; use of philosophy for recapturing, 118–26. See also Reality, divine; Reality, existent and nonexistent
Reality, divine, 177. See also Realissimum
Reality, existent and nonexistent, 177
Reason, 134, 177. See also Noetic differentiation; Nous; Ratio
“Reason: The Classic Experience” (Voegelin), 185
Reflection, 177
Reflective distance, 177
Reflective symbols, 177
Reformation, 74
“Reine Rechtslehre und Staatslehre” (Voegelin), 50
Religio vera ipsa, id est purgatae mentis in Deum recta conversio, 178
Representation, 178
Representative humanity, 178. See also Human nature
Republic (Plato), 157, 158, 185
Res gestae, 178
Res publica, 178
Retz, Cardinal de, 64
Revel, Jean-François, 141n1
Review of Politics, 65
Ritschl, Albrecht, 50
Rockefeller Foundation, 56, 62
Romans, Epistle to, 174
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 115
Rougier, Louis, 78
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 80
Sabine, George H., 89
Saeculum, 178
Saint-Juste, Louis Antoine Leon, 75
Sandoz, Ellis: on Dostoevsky, 113; and Glossary of Terms, 149n; interviews of Voegelin by, 17–20; photograph of, 28; as Voegelin’s student, 3–4, 18
Santayana, George, 59–60, 63 Saros, 178
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 134
Saving tale, 5, 178. See also Exodus; Immortalizing
Schabert, Tilo, 113
Schelling, F. W. J. von, 34, 90, 93, 174
Schey, 33
Schiff, Georg, 35
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 93
Schlick, Moritz, 31
Schmitt, Carl, 80
Schriftenreihe zur Politik und Geschichte, 113
Schumpeter, Joseph A., 31, 71, 84
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 82
Schütz, Alfred, 34, 35, 36, 96
Science, Politics, and Gnosticism (Voegelin), 76, 152–53, 161, 171–72
Scotosis, 179
Scriptura sancta, sacra, 179
Search. See Zetema; Zetesis
Secondary symbolism, 180
Secularization, 179
Sein und Zeit (Heidegger), 60–61
Sergillanges, A. D., 53
Shakespeare und der Deutsche Geist (Gundolf), 44
Siger de Brabant, 80
Simmel, Georg, 54
Sivers, Peter von, 113
Slavery, 142
Snell, Bruno, 120
Social Democratic party, 32–33, 68–69, 111–12
Social science: Weber on, 40
Sociology of Religion (Weber), 39
Socrates, 181
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 119
Sophia, 179
Sophistes, 179
Sophos, 179
Sophrosyne, 179
Soteria, 179
Soteriology, 179. See also Saving tale
Soul, 94
Southern Political Science Association, 86
Southern Review, 86
Spann, Othmar: and Gezweiung, 54; and universalism, 49, 54; at University of Vienna, 32, 33, 34, 48, 49
Spengler, Oswald, 42, 44, 60, 140
Spirit, 179. See also Pneuma
Spoudaios (aner), 179. See also Phronimos
Sprung, 105
Ssu-ma Ch’ien, 129
Ssu-ma T’an, 129
Staat, 51
Stanford University, 16–17, 18
Stefan-George-Kreis, 44–45, 67
Stein, Wilhelm, 44
Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos, Die (Scheler), 67
Stern, Kurt, 52
Stoa (poikile), 179
Stoicism: and alienation, 101–2, 125; and apostrophe, 125–26, 151; origin of name for, 179
Strebinger (chemist), 38
Strisower, Leo, 33
Stromateis, 180
Strzigowski, Josef, 32
Study of History (Toynbee), 113
Sublimation, 95
Sub specie mortis, 180
Substance, 180. See also Hypostasis
Summodeism, 180
Summum bonum, 180
Superbia vitae, 180. See also Hybris; Insolentia
Supreme Court, U.S., 58–59, 60, 69, 87
Swoboda, Hermann, 32
Symbolism: definition of, 180; participatory philosophy of, 99–100; and transcendental representation, 92. See also Symbols
Symbolist poetry, 44
Symbols: and consciousness, 137; definition of, 99–100; and experiences, 106, 121–22; “total” and “authoritarian” as, 79–80. See also Symbolism
Symposium (Plato), 172
Synesis, 174
Synetos, 174
Tale, the saving. See Saving tale
Tale, the time of the, 180
Talmon, J. L., 80
Tamerlane, 64
Tatsachenwissenschaften (sciences of facts), 50
Taxis, 180
Techne, 180
Techne metretike, 180
Techne politike, 180
Telos, 180
Terminiello case, 69
Tes geneseos pateres, 181
Tetragrammaton, 181
Thaumasia, 181
Thaumaston, 181
Thaumazein, 181
Theios nomos, 181. See also Nomos
Theiotatos, 181
Theogony, 181
Theophany, 181
Theophilos, 181
Theoria, 181. See also Episteme
Thibaudet, Albert, 63
Thingness, 181
Thing-reality, 181–82. See also Intentional consciousness; Intentionality; Participation
Third god, 182
Thnetos, 182
Thomas Aquinas: on amicitia, 150; and Aristotle, 80; on caritas, 160; on Christ as head of all men, 135; on fides formata, 160; on fides informata, 160; on form, 160; on God, 165, 181; on ipsum esse, 165; on Ipsum Esse Subsistens, 150; metaphysics as term used by, 105; on mystery, 168–69; and mysticism, 138
Timaeus (Plato), 150, 157, 185
Timios, 182
“Timurbild der Humanisten, Das” (Voegelin), 64
To pan. See Pan, to
Topoi, 118
Tou eidenai oregontai, 182
Toynbee, Arnold J., 42, 44, 60, 113, 129–30
Transcendence, 182
Transcendence, experiences of, 182. See also Apperception; Transcendentals
Transcendent, 182. See also Beyond; Ground; Summum bonum; Transcendentals
Transcendental, 183. See also Beyond
Transcendental representation, 92
Transcendentals, 183
Transcendentia. See Transcendentals
Translatio imperii, 183
Transparent, 183
Trois Contes (Flaubert), 62
Truth, 5
Truth of existence, 183. See also Existential consciousness; Untruth of existence
Tua res agitur, 183
Tyche, 183. See also Fortuna
Ukase, 183
Ultor peccatorum, 184
United States: blacks in, 142; citizenship for Voegelins in, 16, 115; ethnic-cultural diversity of, 131–32; intellectuals in, 141, 143–44; and polarization, 141–44; revolutionary tradition of, 140–41; slavery in, 142; university students in, 85, 114–15; and Vietnam War, 142–43; Voegelin’s immigration to, 16, 71–72, 140
Universality, universal, 184. See also Representative humanity
Universities: comparison of European and American students in, 85, 114–15, 116; in Germany, 116–17. See also specific universities
University of Alabama, 16, 85–86, 89–90
University of Chicago, 90, 98, 120
University of Vienna: anti-Semitism at, 36, 112; firing of Voegelin from, by National Socialists, 16, 70, 111; Kelsen at, 31, 32, 33, 34, 48, 49; Spann at, 32, 33, 34, 48, 49; Voegelin as faculty member at, 15–16, 67, 79, 112; Voegelin as student at, 15, 31–36, 49, 121
University of Wisconsin, 56, 58–59, 61
Untruth of existence, 184. See also Truth of existence
Uphronimos. See Phronimos
Variae de religionibus sententiae, 184
Vauvenargues, Marquise de, 64
Verantwortungsethik (ethics of responsibility), 39–40
Verdross, Alfred von, 31, 34, 48
Vernunft, 134
Vettori, Francesco, 121
Via dolorosa, 184
Violence, 146
Vision, 184–85. See also Opsis
Vitae nimia cupiditas, 185
Voegelin, Elisabeth Ruehl, 15
Voegelin, Eric: American influence on, 56–61; as Bennington College faculty member, 16, 84–85; biographical summary on, 15–17; birth date of, 15; Chinese language study by, 91; and Christian Socialist party, 68; as Columbia University student, 52, 56–58; and Communism, 85, 112; and comparative civilizational knowledge, 40–44; criticisms of, 74; death of, 15, 17; development of history of political ideas by, 89–92; on differences between European and American students, 114–15, 116; emigration of, from Austria, 16, 70–72, 82–83; and English language, 55, 86–87; finances of, 67, 85, 115; firing of, from University of Vienna, 16, 70, 111; flight by, from Gestapo into Switzerland, 16, 71–72, 82, 83; and French language, 62; Stefan George’s influence on, 44–45; Gestapo search of home of, 82–83; Greek language study by, 67; as Harvard University instructor, 71, 72, 84, 89; as Harvard University student, 56, 58; Hebrew language study by, 90; high school education of, 15, 37–38, 53; home of, in California, 18; immigration of, to U.S., 16, 71–72, 140; and Institute for Political Science (Munich), 4–5, 16, 112–17; interviews of, by Sandoz, 17–20; and Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law, 48–51; Kraus’s influence on, 45–47; library of, 63, 82–83; as Louisiana State University professor, 3, 5, 6, 16, 49, 86–88, 115; marriage of, 16; and Marxism, 38, 39, 52, 74, 111; Meyer as teacher of, 42–43; as Munich University professor, 7; and National Socialism, 16, 53, 70, 72–74, 77–78, 82–83, 85, 111; as Oxford University student, 55; parents of, 15; in Paris as student, 56, 62–65; personality of, 15; Ph.D. dissertation by, 49, 54, 54n1; photographs and portrait of, 10, 25, 26, 28–30; retirement of, 17; return of, to Vienna in 1927, 66–69; Rockefeller Fellowship for, 56–65; and Russian language, 62; and Social Democratic party, 33, 68–69, 111–12; as Stanford University professor, 16–17; teaching career of, 2–7, 15–17, 84–88, 110–17; as University of Alabama faculty member, 16, 85–86, 89–90; as University of Vienna faculty member, 15–16, 67, 79, 112; as University of Vienna student, 15, 31–36, 49, 121; as University of Wisconsin student, 56, 58–59, 61; U.S. citizenship for, 16, 115; vocabulary of, 1–2; Walgreen Lectures by, 91; Alfred Weber as teacher of, 43; Max Weber’s influence on, 39–41, 73; writings by summarized, 16–17, 50, 66–67, 69, 83. See also specific works
Voegelin, Luise Betty “Lissy” Onken: in Alabama, 85; burial place for, 17; California home of, 18; immigration of, to U.S., 16, 72; Louisiana home of, 3; marriage of, 16; photographs of, 27, 28; search of home of, 83; U.S. citizenship for, 16, 115; and Voegelin’s escape from Gestapo, 71; and Voegelin’s retirement, 17
Voegelinian Revolution (Sandoz), 17
Wagner, Frederick, 149n
Warburg Institute, 65
Webb, Eugene, 149n
Weber, Max: and comparative civilizational knowledge, 40–41, 44, 60; on ethics of intention and ethics of responsibility, 39–40; on ideologies, 39–40, 74; influence of, on Voegelin, 39–41, 73; on intellectual integrity, 5, 73, 74; on Marxism, 39; on social science, 40
Weber-Schaefer, Peter, 113
Wechselwirkung, 54
Weininger, Otto, 32
Wellesz, Egon, 32
Wertbeziehende Methode, 51
Wertwissenschaften, 50
Wesley, John, 56
“What Is Political Reality?” (Voegelin), 164, 176
Whitehead, Alfred North, 58, 148
Wieser, Leopold von, 31
Wilde, Johannes, 35
William of Ockham, 138
Williams, T. Harry, 115
Wilson, John A., 154
Winternitz, Emanuel, 34, 35, 48
Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Weber), 39
“Wisdom and the Magic of the Extreme” (Voegelin), 164, 167
Wissenschaft und Politik (Weber), 39
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 31
World, 185
World of the Polis (Voegelin), 3, 16
Xynon, 185. See also Koinon
Zetein, 185
Zetema, 185
Zetesis, 185
Zeus, 138
Zoa, 185
Zoon noetikon, politikon, historikon, 185–86
Zoon noun echon, 186