Eric Voegelin - New science of politics (1952)

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The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

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