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The paper suggests Voegelins The Greatness of Max Weber lecture provides a key to his philosophical attitude as witness to the truth in 1964 Hitler and the Germans lectures. I suggest reading those lectures with Kierkegaards three existential categories, aesthetic, ethical and religious in mind, keeping all of them in function to Manfred Henningsens interpretation of the lectures as aiming at a German metanoia. Taking examples from Hitler and the Germans, the question of Voegelin as philosophical witness to the truth is illustrated with some rare comments he made regarding his work as a philosopher. The paper concludes by suggesting that the generous notion of prophet Voegelin himself ascribes to classic and later writers can justifiably be applied to his role in delivering the Hitler and the Germans lectures. |
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| Purcell, Brendan. "Can a Philosopher be a Prophetic Witness to the Truth?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210035_index.html> |
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| Purcell, B. , 2007-08-30 "Can a Philosopher be a Prophetic Witness to the Truth?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210035_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The paper suggests Voegelins The Greatness of Max Weber lecture provides a key to his philosophical attitude as witness to the truth in 1964 Hitler and the Germans lectures. I suggest reading those lectures with Kierkegaards three existential categories, aesthetic, ethical and religious in mind, keeping all of them in function to Manfred Henningsens interpretation of the lectures as aiming at a German metanoia. Taking examples from Hitler and the Germans, the question of Voegelin as philosophical witness to the truth is illustrated with some rare comments he made regarding his work as a philosopher. The paper concludes by suggesting that the generous notion of prophet Voegelin himself ascribes to classic and later writers can justifiably be applied to his role in delivering the Hitler and the Germans lectures. |
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| 1 Prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 30th-September 2nd 2007. “Can a Philosopher be a Prophetic Witness to the Truth?” Brendan Purcell University College Dublin Since we’re in Chicago I’d like to start with some lines of Saul Bellow’s principal character. Albert Corde a college dean in Chicago says in The Dean’s December: ‘We couldn’t ourselves observe the dulling of consciousness since we were all its victims…The genius of these |
| University Press 2002). 17 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Esquisses d’exil: Le grain tombé entre les meules II: 1979 – 1994 (Paris: Fayard 2005) 118–19. 18 Eric Voegelin History of Political Ideas Vol. V: Religion and the Rise of Modernity edited and introduced by James L. Wiser (Columbia: University of Missouri Press 1998) especially 196–204. 19 Eric Voegelin What is History? And Other Late Unpublished Writings Eds. Thomas A. Hollweck and Paul Caringella (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1990) 145–46. 20 |
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