On Voegelin Search For The Road Of Delivering The Crisis Of Modernity

From the beginning of the reflection of the crisis of modernity, Voegelin found that there has a close relationship between modernity and Gnosticism. Gnosticism’s core idea, which uses Man to replace God, has deeply influenced the development of modern Western politics. With the rise of positivism and Marxism, Gnosticism has made considerable progress, with the emergence of totalitarianism, Gnosticism developed to its peak. At Dark Age of faithless, the human mind and the political and social order was lost, disorder epitomizes the crisis of modernity. In response to the era disorder, Voegelin struggled to explore, and he found the political ideas do not reflect the existence of human divinity foundation, only the experience of the existence order could truly reflect the reality; Vico’s "New Science" has a deep impact on Voegelin to constructing New Political Science. At the same time, Voegelin’s political theory is a historical theory, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of history converge to Voegelin’s philosophy of consciousness, this philosophy of consciousness is the foundation of the New Political Science, the theory of representative is the core of the New Political Science, symbols experience and order is keywords of the New Political Science, at the same time the New Political Science is one political philosophy. "The New Science of Politics" is the beginning of New Political Science, through the discussion about the reason and faith with Strauss, Strauss chose the reason, Voegelin chose the faith, but this faith combines with the reason, it is In-Between about of the reason and the faith. Five volumes of "Order and History" has published which make the New Political Science complete and deepen, Voegelin was opposed to academic misunderstanding of Plato, hoping to restore the original appearance of Plato, the In-Between from Plato, it can be said in Plato that reason and faith is not one or the other, but a higher level of unity. Only returning to the real source of political science that can really build a genuine political science, and that is the New Political Science. Political science is to overcome the crisis of prevailing era, overcome the disorder and restore order is the purpose of political science. Voegelin’s New Political Science is born to solve the crisis of modernity, the road to construct the New Political Science is the road that Voegelin guidelines for the world’s salvation.