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In "The New Science of Politics" Eric Voegelin wrote that "Man in his mere humanity, without the fides caritate formata, is demonic nothingness." Modern ideologies close the psyche against transcendence and thus diminish humanity while producing a great deal of evil. The idea of "demonic nothingness" is important in understanding the particular evil of ideologies. This paper uses writngs of Voegelin, Gerhart Niemeyer, Augustine, and Dostoyevsky to analyze the psychological and metaphysical meaning of Voegelin's phrase. |
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Keywords: Ideologies, Evil, Voegelin, Niemeyer, Political theory, Metaphysics |
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Henry, Michael. "Ideologies and" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66666_index.html> |
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| Henry, M. , 2002-08-28 "Ideologies and" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66666_index.html |
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Abstract: In "The New Science of Politics" Eric Voegelin wrote that "Man in his mere humanity, without the fides caritate formata, is demonic nothingness." Modern ideologies close the psyche against transcendence and thus diminish humanity while producing a great deal of evil. The idea of "demonic nothingness" is important in understanding the particular evil of ideologies. This paper uses writngs of Voegelin, Gerhart Niemeyer, Augustine, and Dostoyevsky to analyze the psychological and metaphysical meaning of Voegelin's phrase. |
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| Ideologies and ``Demonic Nothingness'' Michael Henry St. John's University Jamaica New York Prepared for delivery at the 2002 Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association August 29September 1 2002. Copyright by the American Political Science Association. 2 Ideologies and ``Demonic Nothingness'' Michael Henry The desire to escape from reality is one of the constants of human existence relatively harmless when it is known to be ``escapism'' but potentially disastrous if the unwanted reality is actually banished from consciousness. |
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