Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of Consciousness, Part 5

[jefersontorres]

Hitler is not funny. Even Chaplin once said that if he knew what was happening in the jude ghetos he wouldn´t have produced The Great Dictator.

[outsidethesquares]

And Green Labor in Australia wonder why their support has sunken to 23% in the latest polls, And the left go silent blaming the peoples ignorance, not their own loss of reason and common sense.

[cirosuperiore]

EV pushed that tired old thinking about the Judeo-Christian influence on the West.

the fact is that it was Roman Law and Italian Renaissance Rationalism that shaped the West, not Moses, Jesus or even Plato as EV says.

[gabrielguitarman]

@cirosuperiore What a bullshit. Even in Renaissance there was a strong influence of helenian philosophy and, in some way, christian tought (even that there started on of the ways of modern secularism)