-born American
political philosopher. He was born in Cologne
, then Imperial Germany, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna
. He became a teacher and then an associate professor of political science
at the Faculty of Law. In 1938 he, with his wife, fled from the Nazi forces which had recently entered Vienna
, emigrating to the United States, where they became citizens in 1944.
The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos|eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
The death of the spirit is the price of progress.
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.
Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.