Voegelin
Proper noun
Meaning
Voegelin (plural Voegelins)
A surname from German.
Examples
1940s: Intellectual exchange with Schutz, Voegelin, Dodd and other debates Parsons met Alfred Schutz (Schütz) during the rationality seminar, which he conducted jointly together with Joseph Schumpeter at Harvard in the spring of 1940.
According to Voegelin, the claim to gnosis may take intellectual, emotional, and volitional forms."
Although it was not intended, the Calvinist faith-system, though authoritarian in the beginning, released in its long-term institutional effects a fundamental democratic revolution in the world; Letter from Talcott Parsons to Eric Voegelin, May 13, 1941.
Between 1940 and 1944, Parsons and Eric Voegelin (Vögelin) (1901–1985) exchanged their intellectual views through correspondence.
Similarly, Strauss criticized Eric Voegelin 's abandonment of ancient political thought as guide or vehicle in interpreting modern political problems.
W. Kaufmann, 1966, Hegel: A Reinterpretation, p. 99 Voegelin argued that Hegel should be understood not as a philosopher, but as a "sorcerer" -- i.e., as a mystic and Hermetic thinker.