A Political Philosophy Of Erich Przywara s Analogia Entis

There is no explicit political philosophy found in Erich Przywara’s Analogia Entis. While he seems to analyze nearly every school of Western philosophy, the one philosophical movement he barely acknowledges is the Enlightenment, which arguably lays the groundwork for much of Western political thought. However if one compares Przywara with political thinkers of the Enlightenment, he shares quite a lot with Edmund Burke, the father of conservatism. Before analyzing their ideologies, it is important to recognize both men lived through similar circumstances. Burke and Przywara both lived through a turbulent time of political instability. During the French Revolution, Burke recognized the faults with the French. In his Reflections on the†¦show more content†¦With this being said it is not the midpoint between these positions; Przywara uses Lateran IV’s formula â€Å"for every similarity there is an ever greater dissimilarity.† Burkean conservatism, similarly, is almost a spanning of other political philosophies. Take two other political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, specifically regarding the nature of the state. Hobbes seems to take the univocal position; the state is the unification of the people, the body, and the king as the head, forming the Leviathan. With this being said the position flips into equivocity, because the king is seen as the â€Å"greater dissimilarity.† The problem Hobbes runs into is his absolutism; if the king becomes a tyrant, all the citizens can do is to wait for a new king. (Duncan) On the other hand Rousseau seems to take the equivocal position, believing the formal nature of the state is almost unnatural. Rousseau however falls into the same dialectical flipping, switching to a univocal position, specifically his notion of the social contract. Since all men are created equally, it becomes the duty of the citizenry to depose of tyrannical ruler. (Bertram) These two ideologies la ck the â€Å"rhythm† of analogy, leading to the ideological collapse. Przywara explains this collapse as the â€Å"either-or abrupt change† cause by the dialectic (Przywara 206). Burke, however, does not seem to make the same