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Reflections on What is Political Philosphy for Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin
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REFLECTIONS ON WHAT IS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY FOR
HANNAH ARENDT, LEO STRAUSS AND ERIC VOEGELIN
Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association
Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007
Eric Voegelin Society
Timothy
Fuller
Colorado
College
## email not listed ## ______________________________________________________________________________ I am animated by distrust for all high guesses, and by sympathy with the old prejudices and workaday opinions of mankind: they are ill expressed, but they are well grounded. George
Santayana
The elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought; and the starting point for thought is the analytic observation of components of this experience.
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
Now in no way do I intend to dispute that these sentences [defining the State] make good sense within the Hegelian gnosis....But what we in politics wish to know is whether Mr. Minister X understands his business, whether he has initiative, whether he is informed, whether he steals more than is absolutely necessary, whether he lies more than is publicly beneficial, and so on, but not that the state is the reality of the moral idea. Eric
Voegelin,
Hitler and the Germans
A political thinker who is not a philosopher is primarily interested in, or attached to, a specific order or policy; the political philosopher is primarily interested in, or attached to, the truth. Political thought which is not political philosophy finds its adequate expression in laws and codes, in poems and stories, in tracts and speeches inter alia; the proper form of presenting political philosophy is the treatise. Political thought is as old as the human race....but political philosophy appeared at a knowable time in the recorded past. Leo
Strauss,
What Is Political Philosophy?
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REFLECTIONS ON WHAT IS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY FOR
HANNAH ARENDT, LEO STRAUSS AND ERIC VOEGELIN
Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association
Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007
Eric Voegelin Society
Timothy
Fuller
Colorado
College
## email not listed ##
______________________________________________________________________
________
I am animated by distrust for all high guesses, and by sympathy with the old
prejudices and workaday opinions of mankind: they are ill expressed, but they are
well grounded.
George
Santayana
The elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought;
and the starting point for thought is the analytic observation of components of
this experience.
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
Now in no way do I intend to dispute that these sentences [defining the State]
make good sense within the Hegelian gnosis....But what we in politics wish to
know is whether Mr. Minister X understands his business, whether he has
initiative, whether he is informed, whether he steals more than is absolutely
necessary, whether he lies more than is publicly beneficial, and so on, but not that
the state is the reality of the moral idea.
Eric
Voegelin,
Hitler and the Germans
A political thinker who is not a philosopher is primarily interested in, or attached
to, a specific order or policy; the political philosopher is primarily interested in, or
attached to, the truth. Political thought which is not political philosophy finds its
adequate expression in laws and codes, in poems and stories, in tracts and
speeches inter alia; the proper form of presenting political philosophy is the
treatise. Political thought is as old as the human race....but political philosophy
appeared at a knowable time in the recorded past.
Leo
Strauss,
What Is Political Philosophy?
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