Socratic Method and Recollection in Plato and Kant
Liberal education is struggling to maintain its place in the contemporary university. In some ways, the challenges it faces are as old as liberal education itself. Plato’s…
Schelling on the University in an Age of Utility
“Reason is not a faculty, not a tool, nor can it be used. Anyhow there is no reason at all which we could have, but only a…
Subjectivity and Human Nature in Eric Voegelin’s Reading of Aristotle
Any student of Aristotle’s thought will be familiar with his various definitions of human nature: in the Politics he tells us “man is by nature a political…
Brendan Purcell: Exploring Personhood
The Human Voyage of Self-Discovery: Essays in Honour of Brendan Purcell. Brendan Leahy and David Walsh, eds. Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2013. In his contribution to this…
Voegelin and Schelling on Freedom and the Beyond
Do you ask to be conscious of this freedom? But do you also consider that all your consciousness is only possible via your freedom and that the…
Disturbing Revelation: Strauss, Voegelin, and the Bible
Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible. John J. Ranieri. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. In Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin,…