About the Author
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he and his wife, fleeing Hitler, immigrated to the United States. They became American citizens in 1944. Voegelin spent much of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred articles. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin will make available in a uniform edition all of Voegelin's major writings.
About the Editor
Michael Franz is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he is the author of Eric Voegelin and the Politics of Spiritual Revolt: The Roots of Modern Ideology.
发表于2024-11-24
Order and History (Volume 4) 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
编者按:本文原刊于《海南大学学报》(人文社科版)2019年第3期,第9-15页。 提要:沃格林一生的思想转变非常复杂。他对灵知主义的哲学批判,呈现了其历史哲学与意识哲学的意图和主要特征。沃格林的“灵知主义”概念,主要来自海德格尔和黑格尔的哲学,他早期试图通过一种基于...
评分【编者按】本文原载《深圳大学学报》(人文社会科学版)2019年第5期。 从希罗多德和司马迁的纪事书中可以看到,致力于认识邻人的秉性是一个政治体成熟的标志之一。自18世纪欧洲思想家得知中国以来,认真下功夫研究过中国文明的欧洲大思想家(而非汉学家)屈指可数:从莱布尼兹...
评分编者按:本文原刊于《海南大学学报》(人文社科版)2019年第3期,第9-15页。 提要:沃格林一生的思想转变非常复杂。他对灵知主义的哲学批判,呈现了其历史哲学与意识哲学的意图和主要特征。沃格林的“灵知主义”概念,主要来自海德格尔和黑格尔的哲学,他早期试图通过一种基于...
评分来源:《读书》 2018年第04期 参加过自上世纪八十年代绵延至今的“韦伯命题”讨论的中国学者,或许内心微有遗憾:如果韦伯能多活二三十年,掌握了中文或者读到更多中国研究资料,也许他能借给我们一双来自现代社会科学巨擘的“慧眼”,提供更全面深刻的、具有德式理论“彻底性...
评分来源:《读书》 2018年第04期 参加过自上世纪八十年代绵延至今的“韦伯命题”讨论的中国学者,或许内心微有遗憾:如果韦伯能多活二三十年,掌握了中文或者读到更多中国研究资料,也许他能借给我们一双来自现代社会科学巨擘的“慧眼”,提供更全面深刻的、具有德式理论“彻底性...
图书标签: 政治哲学 人文社科类 Ecumenic Age
Order and History, Eric Voegelin's five-volume study of how human and divine order are intertwined and manifested in history, has been widely acclaimed as one of the great intellectual achievements of our age.
In the fourth volume, The Ecumenic Age, Voegelin breaks with the course he originally charted for the series, in which human existence in society and the corresponding symbolism of order were to be presented in historical succession. The analyses in the three previous volumes remain valid as far as they go, Voegelin explains, but the original conception proved "untenable because it had not taken proper account of the important lines of meaning in history that did not run along lines of time."
The Ecumenic Age treats history not as a stream of human beings and their actions in time, but as the process of man's participation in a flux of divine presence that has eschatological direction. "The process of history, and such order as can be discerned in it," Voegelin writes, "is not a story to be told from the beginning to its happy, or unhappy, end; it is a mystery in process of revelation."
In the present volume, Voegelin applies his revised conception of historical analysis to the "Ecumenic Age," a pivotal period that extends roughly from the rise of the Persian Empire to the fall of the Roman. The age is marked by the advent of a new type of political unit—the ecumenic empire—achieved at the cost of unprecedented destruction. Yet the pragmatic destructiveness of the age is paralleled by equally unprecedented spiritual creativity, born from the need to make sense of existence in the wake of imperial conquest. These spiritual outbursts gave rise to the great ecumenic religions and raised fundamental questions for human self- understanding that extend into our historical present.
The Chinese ecumene一章确实非常精彩。可是沃格林最后总结说华夏文明轴心时代的突破,并没有完全和cosmological truth断裂最后抵达the truth of existence。先秦诸子著作中的某些段落已经完全到达了后者(《荀子·儒效》),但另外一些却又和cosmological truth纠缠不清。所以,华夏文明的理性程度低于基督教和古希腊哲学。 我个人来讲,对这种metaphysics是持怀疑态度的。我还是采取一个pragmatic的态度:如果华夏文明能够培养出同等优秀的人物,就够了。
评分The Chinese ecumene一章确实非常精彩。可是沃格林最后总结说华夏文明轴心时代的突破,并没有完全和cosmological truth断裂最后抵达the truth of existence。先秦诸子著作中的某些段落已经完全到达了后者(《荀子·儒效》),但另外一些却又和cosmological truth纠缠不清。所以,华夏文明的理性程度低于基督教和古希腊哲学。 我个人来讲,对这种metaphysics是持怀疑态度的。我还是采取一个pragmatic的态度:如果华夏文明能够培养出同等优秀的人物,就够了。
评分The Chinese ecumene一章确实非常精彩。可是沃格林最后总结说华夏文明轴心时代的突破,并没有完全和cosmological truth断裂最后抵达the truth of existence。先秦诸子著作中的某些段落已经完全到达了后者(《荀子·儒效》),但另外一些却又和cosmological truth纠缠不清。所以,华夏文明的理性程度低于基督教和古希腊哲学。 我个人来讲,对这种metaphysics是持怀疑态度的。我还是采取一个pragmatic的态度:如果华夏文明能够培养出同等优秀的人物,就够了。
评分The Chinese ecumene一章确实非常精彩。可是沃格林最后总结说华夏文明轴心时代的突破,并没有完全和cosmological truth断裂最后抵达the truth of existence。先秦诸子著作中的某些段落已经完全到达了后者(《荀子·儒效》),但另外一些却又和cosmological truth纠缠不清。所以,华夏文明的理性程度低于基督教和古希腊哲学。 我个人来讲,对这种metaphysics是持怀疑态度的。我还是采取一个pragmatic的态度:如果华夏文明能够培养出同等优秀的人物,就够了。
评分The Chinese ecumene一章确实非常精彩。可是沃格林最后总结说华夏文明轴心时代的突破,并没有完全和cosmological truth断裂最后抵达the truth of existence。先秦诸子著作中的某些段落已经完全到达了后者(《荀子·儒效》),但另外一些却又和cosmological truth纠缠不清。所以,华夏文明的理性程度低于基督教和古希腊哲学。 我个人来讲,对这种metaphysics是持怀疑态度的。我还是采取一个pragmatic的态度:如果华夏文明能够培养出同等优秀的人物,就够了。
Order and History (Volume 4) 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书