VLVL2 (1) Missed Communications: Beginnings

[Michael Joseph]

Terrence, just to clarify - Eliade does not posit any specific theodicy.
Your quotation unfortunately implies a Christian or monotheistic
foundation to his writing, which most definitely is not there.

As for "The entelechy of the state . . .," Aristophanes would not agree.
Would Terence?

m


> For religious man, the world is renewed annually; in other words, with
> each new year it recovers it original sanctity, the sanctity that it
> possessed when it came into creation or as Eliade say, "from the
> creator's hand." The entelechy of the state, in the Aristotelian sense,
> is not the subject of comedy, but of tragedy.
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