Sunday, February 27, 2005

New Critique II, p. 192 (1955)

When , e.g., a Christian statesman in opposition to the speculative political constructions repeatedly appeals to the adage: 'It is written, and it has happened!'[1], it must be clear that history is not conceived here in an abstarct theoretical sense, but rather in the fullness of the concrete temporal coherence of meaning, revealed within typical structures of totality and individuality.

footnote
[1] This adage was dircted by the famous dutch christian statsman and historian GUILLAUME GROEN VAN PRINSTERER against the natural law construction of the state, familiar to the French revolution. Cf. The Authorized (King James) Version Mathew 4:4.

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