ABSTRACT

Eric Voegelin’s intellectual project has typically been described as involved in the rehabilitation of classical political philosophy and in the diagnosis of Gnostic tendencies in modernity. In his work, however, he repeatedly points to the late-medieval/early modern concept of toleration as a necessary addition to the Platonic-Aristotelian legacy he was concerned with retrieving. This article explores Voegelin’s understanding of toleration, and especially its Bodinian origins. As the article demonstrates, his understanding of toleration is deeply intertwined with a Bodinian understanding of religion, and as such it may be more difficult to integrate with other elements of Voegelin’s thought than he himself believed.

摘要

埃里克·沃格林 (Eric Voegelin) 的智力项目通常被描述为涉及古典政治哲学的复兴和现代性诺斯替主义倾向的诊断。然而，在他的作品中，他反复指出中世纪晚期/现代早期的宽容概念是他所关心的柏拉图-亚里士多德遗产的必要补充。本文探讨了 Voegelin 对宽容的理解，尤其是它的博迪尼亚起源。正如文章所表明的那样，他对宽容的理解与博迪尼亚对宗教的理解深深地交织在一起，因此，与沃格林思想的其他元素相结合可能比他自己认为的要困难得多。