Voegelin and Aristotle onNous
What is Noetic Political Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6401141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David D Corey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-79 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500031612 |
| OpenAlex | W1997082338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
The article examines Voegelin's understanding ofnousas the ground for theorizing, and relates this back to Aristotle. Aristotle is shown to have understood the activities ofnousin two distinct ways. On the one hand,nousis the divine activity of the soul exploring its own ground. Butnousis also induction (epagôgê) of the first principles of science through sense perception, memory and experience. The two basic activities ofnousare related, but they have different values when it comes to the world of particulars. The argument is that a substantive ethical and political science—one that sheds light on particulars—must include the inductive employment ofnousand that the exclusion of this from Voegelin's political science results in some discernible limitations.The limitations of Eric Voegelin—s work are sometimes difficult to keep in view, particularly while he is expounding upon the totality of Being, the myriad dimensions of human consciousness, and the nature of order in personal, social, and historical existence. But in fact Voegelin's work is more limited than his magisterial tone might suggest. The argument of this article is that while Voegelin offers his readers profoundly important insights into the structure of human consciousness and into what Aristotle called first philosophy, the study of beingquabeing, he does not offer his readers much in the way of a substantive ethical or political science
Argument (complex analysis · Consciousness · Epistemology · Nous · Order (exchange · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Soul · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |