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Discuss the view of Eric Voeglin and Christian Bay on the new science of politics in about 500 words
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As you may recall, in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the first line of the novel is, "It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton," or when the end was no longer nigh, it was now in all its heavenly, revelatory glory. Voegelin's book is the source of this phrase, although in The New Science of Politics it isn't comical.

As you may recall, in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the first line of the novel is, "It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton," or when the end was no longer nigh, it was now in all its heavenly, revelatory glory. Voegelin's book is the source of this phrase, although in The New Science of Politics it isn't comical.This work contains the deepest theoretical understanding of politics that I can remember reading, although not as concise as his Science, Politics, and Gnosticism. The writing is thicker with technical terms or jargon that does make for heavy lifting and gives some exhaustion from exercising unused mental muscles. What it really means to think and not overthink, that is the feat!

As you may recall, in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the first line of the novel is, "It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton," or when the end was no longer nigh, it was now in all its heavenly, revelatory glory. Voegelin's book is the source of this phrase, although in The New Science of Politics it isn't comical.This work contains the deepest theoretical understanding of politics that I can remember reading, although not as concise as his Science, Politics, and Gnosticism. The writing is thicker with technical terms or jargon that does make for heavy lifting and gives some exhaustion from exercising unused mental muscles. What it really means to think and not overthink, that is the feat!To quote: "In the first case [of purpose], when the accent lies strongly on movement, without clarity about final perfection, the result will be the progressivist interpretation of history. The aim need not be clarified because progressivist thinkers, men like Diderot or D'Alembert, assume a selection of desirable factors as the standard and interpret progress as qualitative and quantitative increase of the present good -- the 'bigger and better' of our simplifying slogan. This is a conservative attitude, and may become reactionary unless the original standard be adjusted to the changing historical situation.

As you may recall, in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the first line of the novel is, "It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton," or when the end was no longer nigh, it was now in all its heavenly, revelatory glory. Voegelin's book is the source of this phrase, although in The New Science of Politics it isn't comical.This work contains the deepest theoretical understanding of politics that I can remember reading, although not as concise as his Science, Politics, and Gnosticism. The writing is thicker with technical terms or jargon that does make for heavy lifting and gives some exhaustion from exercising unused mental muscles. What it really means to think and not overthink, that is the feat!To quote: "In the first case [of purpose], when the accent lies strongly on movement, without clarity about final perfection, the result will be the progressivist interpretation of history. The aim need not be clarified because progressivist thinkers, men like Diderot or D'Alembert, assume a selection of desirable factors as the standard and interpret progress as qualitative and quantitative increase of the present good -- the 'bigger and better' of our simplifying slogan. This is a conservative attitude, and may become reactionary unless the original standard be adjusted to the changing historical situation.In the second case [of value], when the accent lies strongly on the state of perfection, without clarity about the means which are required for its realization, the result will be utopianism. It may assume the form of an axiological dream world, as in the utopia of More, when the thinker is still aware that and why the dream is unrealizable; or, with increasing theoretical illiteracy, it may assume the form of various social idealisms, such as the abolition of war, of unequal distribution of property, of fear and want. And, finally, immanentization may extend to the complete Christian symbol. The result will then be the active mysticism of a state of perfection, to be achieved through a revolutionary transfiguration of the nature of man, as, for instance, in Marxism."..

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