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  • Eric Voegelin on Gnostic Modernity

    06/30/2020 5:27:16 PM PDT · by Noumenon · 8 replies
    The Orthosphere blog ^ | JUNE 13, 2020 | THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU
    Eric Voegelin on Gnostic Modernity A previous essay to this one on José Ortega y Gasset began with the claim that the past speaks to the present more pertinently than the present speaks to itself, but that the present, in assessing itself as the culmination of human advancement, actively disdains the past and prefers to stuff its ears. The essence of the modern psyche – which Ortega explores in his Revolt of the Masses (1930) – is paradoxically to be at once emphatically assured of its knowledge and wisdom but, in Ortega’s phrase, conscientiously ignorant of anything outside its radically...