So, it looks like one view of the Demiurge was the World Spirit, which Hegel famously conceived of as the historical dialectic. ...
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Replying to @jaspergregory
Marx concieved of Hegel's Historical Dialectic as the class struggle, which is thus an operatioanlization of the demiurge
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Replying to @jaspergregory
When (unwittingly hegelian) progressives say history is on their side, they are doing the work of the demiurge
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This is the essence of Eric Vogelin’s thesis that 20th C leftism is unwittingly gnostic, I believe
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Replying to @Meaningness
Voegelin has been on my to read list for years. I will move him up a few notches
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I just always assumed that he meant neo-gnostic, i didn't realize he had a historical argument for the term
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Yeah, I can’t discuss Buddhism on twitter without pointing out [today] “that argument originated in the 1680s and hasn’t changed since”
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