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[Dave Monroe]

Again, agreed.  And I've no doubt that "modernity," "modernism" enter into
this as well, perhaps via Eric Vogelin (Science, Politics and Gnosticism, and
I've just stumbled across something of his titled Modernity without Restraint:
The Political Religions, the New Science of Politics, and Science, Politics,
and Gnosticism) a-and maybe even that Charles Baudelaire (The Painter of
Modern Life).  Much of the "gnostic," many "gnosticisms" about both the
scientific and the modernist, and, esp., about modern science and/or
scientific modernism.  I hope my posted notes (vs. ...) have been hinting in
this direction, at least ...

Terrance wrote:

> Now,  Take the term Gnostic. There is no doubt that gnostic themes are
> important to V., however, gnostic texts, references to gnosticism, allusions
>
> to, symbolism, so forth, so essential to GR, are absent. So, when Eddins
> says that V. is gnostic we need to establish a common definition so we don't
> argue over terms again. Fortunately, Eddins provides several terms,
> Gnosticism,
> gnostic, existential gnosticism and so on.