Voegelin 1968, File 8

Оригинальный текст (нем.)  

How can we, as human beings, get out of the socially dominant lie of existence (Existenzluge)?.. The phenomenon of the lie of existence is a phenomenon in history… That existence in the agnoia, in the alethos pseudos, is not "the nature of man, " but a pneumopathological situation… That the phenomenon has emerged in the history of humanity more than once and has been thoroughly investigated… (That) its contemporary social-dominance is bound up with (a) deliberate ignoring of history… That everyone is personally responsible for the order of his existence—historical social-dominance does not have normative force, and cannot be used as an excuse for dishonest existence… That the lie of existence is a social power which heavily burdens each of us and threatens each with lasting spiritual deformation (Plato, Politeia II: perversion of reality (from truth to lie): the motivation for the dialogue)… That resistance to a social power of such great order demands a corresponding measure of spiritual passion, intellectual discipline, and hard study (and) that the recognition of these demands is the first step — but no more than the first step—in order to get out of the lie of existence. Recognition of the existential-ethical demands as an intellectual achievement is not enough — it must be followed by the passionate work of daily resistance against the lie of existence — the work is lifelong.

— Фогелен Эрих

• Темы: Ложное существование
• Источник: Geschichtsphilosophie. 1968, University of Munich, 7, Voegelin Papers, box 86, file 8.