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Autor: Voegelin, Eric Buch: Israel and Revelation Titel: Israel and Revelation Stichwort: Bedeutung der Rationalisierung der Götterweilt für die Politik in Babylon und Assur Kurzinhalt: every center of power, however small and insignificant it may be, has a tendency to posit itself as an absolute entity in the world Textausschnitt: In the practice of politics the rationalization of the forces of being, as yet undifferentiated into "religious" and "political" forces, is the condition of empire-building. The world of politics is essentially polytheistic in the sense that every center of power, however small and insignificant it may be, has a tendency to posit itself as an absolute entity in the world, regardless of the simultaneous existence of other centers which deem themselves equally absolute. Hence, an empire-builder faces the ineluctable task of inventing a hierarchy of forces which permits the welding of formerly independent units into one political cosmion. |