voegelin in A Sentence

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    Voegelin was born in Cologne, Germany in 1901.

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    But whatever paradoxes he embodied, Voegelin was, first and foremost, a passionate seeker for truth.

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    What Voegelin called“the Gnostic personality” has great difficulty accepting that the impermanence of temporal existence is inherent in its nature.

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    We can best understand Voegelin's attitude towards liberal democracy as being,“Well, this is the best we can do in the present situation.”.

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    While Voegelin was not a modern liberal, his attitude towards these regimes was considerably more sympathetic than it was towards communism or fascism.

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    Always a realist, Voegelin was not one to look down his nose at whatever order it is really possible to achieve in our actual circumstances.

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    While it is true that Voegelin resisted being assigned to any ideological pigeonhole, there are important aspects of his thought that are conservative in nature.

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    Voegelin was no pacifist- for instance, he was committed to the idea that the West had a responsibility to militarily resist the expansive barbarism of the Soviet Union.

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    Voegelin has sometimes been paired with the British political theorist Michael Oakeshott, who greatly admired his work, but he grounded his political theorizing in a spiritual vision in a way that was quite foreign to Oakeshott's thought.

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    Eric Voegelin often is regarded as a major figure in 20th-century conservative thought- one of his concepts inspired what has been a popular catchphrase on the right for decades,“don't immanentize the eschaton”- but he rejected ideological labels.

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    Having succeeded in restoring civil order to Western Europe during the several centuries following the fall of Rome, the Church would have done best, as Voegelin saw it, to have withdrawn voluntarily“from its material position as the greatest economic power, which could be justified earlier by the actual civilizing performance.”.

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    During his lifelong search for the roots of social order, Voegelin came to understand politics not as an autonomous sphere of activity independent of a nation's culture, but as the public articulation of how a society conceives the proper relationship of its members both to one another and to the rest of the cosmos.

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