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"Show me something snaky": Reflections on Eric Voegelin's theory of consciousness and consubstantiality
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believe in what exists in the world and in living man; the secret of Europe is that it no longer loves
life.”
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He then notes that Camus's self-analysis in his Carnets had found a way out of the European
despair of life. “Not morality, but fulfillment,” Camus wrote. “And there is no fulfillment other than
that of love, meaning the renunciation of self and dying to the world. Going to the end. To disappear.
To dissolve oneself in oneself in love. It will then be the power of love that will create, rather than
myself.”
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Camus had found his way out of the European tradition of metaphysical rebellion by
immersing himself in the myth of ancient Greece, the myth in which the world was alive with the
formative spirit of the It-reality that had yet to come to know itself as the It-reality. Finally, then, is
not love also a mode of participating in the comprehending It-reality and is it not the defining character
of the philosopher, the lover of wisdom?
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Voegelin, “What is Political Reality?” Anamnesis, 370. Voegelin quotes Albert Camus,, The Rebel, translated by
Anthony Bower (New York: Vintage, 1956), 305-306.
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Quoted in Ibid., 371.
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believe in what exists in the world and in living man; the secret of Europe is that it no longer loves
life.”
55
He then notes that Camus's self-analysis in his Carnets had found a way out of the European
despair of life. “Not morality, but fulfillment,” Camus wrote. “And there is no fulfillment other than
that of love, meaning the renunciation of self and dying to the world. Going to the end. To disappear.
To dissolve oneself in oneself in love. It will then be the power of love that will create, rather than
myself.”
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Camus had found his way out of the European tradition of metaphysical rebellion by
immersing himself in the myth of ancient Greece, the myth in which the world was alive with the
formative spirit of the It-reality that had yet to come to know itself as the It-reality. Finally, then, is
not love also a mode of participating in the comprehending It-reality and is it not the defining character
of the philosopher, the lover of wisdom?
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Voegelin, “What is Political Reality?” Anamnesis, 370. Voegelin quotes Albert Camus,, The Rebel, translated by
Anthony Bower (New York: Vintage, 1956), 305-306.
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Quoted in Ibid., 371.
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