The Daily Eudemon

Modernity is the left hemisphere gone wild. Gnosticism, with its dualistic approach and emphasis on knowledge that gives salvation and control, is a left-hemispheric political religion that thrived during the twentieth...

Pick four traits. The last one must be "victim." It's because we live in a gnostic culture that rails against the evil "structure." If there's a structure, there must be victims of the structure.  Show notes

Belief in a structure drives the gnostic. Without a structure to defeat, the gnostic has no purpose. Ancient Gnosticism Presupposed an Elaborate Cosmological Structure of Evil Ancient gnosticism used the ancient cosmic...

Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits Alienation is the Marxist bugbear. He sees alienation everywhere because it emanates from the economic substructure and works its way through the...

Did you take a sociology class in high school or college? Did you know sociology’s founder, August Comte (1798-1857), was kind of a dick? The Encyclopedia Britannica says he was “ungrateful,” “self-centered,” and...

This is a podcast episode from "Outside the Modern Limits," a whimsical newsletter that comes out every Saturday that is geared toward helping people understand and thrive in modernity. You can subscribe and find the...

“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau Rousseau’s passage from the beginning of The Social Contract contends for the most famous in philosophy. Rousseau’s point was simple: Humans are good, but...

A Diagnostic of the Gnostic Eric Voegelin was to modern gnosticism what Knute Rockne was to Notre Dame football. Rockne didn’t start the ND football program and Voegelin didn’t discover modern gnosticism, but they took...

Brains beat brawn. The Titan Prometheus knew that. He joined Zeus in his battle against the Titans. Prometheus later befriended the race of men. He saved them when Zeus thought about extinguishing them. He taught them...

For the fortunate few, that router is hard-wired with fiber optic. Most of us only get a wireless connection, and a wobbly one at that. Show notes here

If you want to understand how gnosticism flourishes in our modern world, you need to understand why it developed in the ancient world. Show notes here

Solon opened Athens to true order: the transformative order found through the Tao. Show notes here . 

Within 100 years, the Cartesians used impeccable logic derived from Descartes' I think there I am to reach two conclusions: there is no earthly agent of movement and there is no matter. There is only God and mind. Hume...

Something really bizarre happened around the year 500 BC, all across Eurasia. We started to realize that we live in the metaxy: an area comprised of transcendence and immanence. These ten thinkers, from Italy to China...

Voegelin was not charismatic. He was a “gentleman thinker.” He didn’t like small talk and valued his time. His personality didn’t attract a cult-like following. He didn’t establish a school or movement. But he’s...