Ellis Sandoz

Ellis Sandoz Jr. (February 10, 1931 – September 19, 2023) was an American academic and political scientist. He was the Hermann Moyse Jr. Distinguished

Sandoz died on September 19, 2023, at the age of 92.[2]

Studies

Sandoz, as Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, established in 1987, devoted himself to research, publications, and conferences on political philosophy and constitutionalism.

Constitutionalism

After the

• University Medal and Rector's Certificate by
  Palacký University of Olomouc, Czech Republic
  ;
• Palacký University of Olomouc
  in 1995 awarded Sandoz the degree Philosophiae doctorem, Honoris causa.
• First political scientist to be chosen Louisiana State University's Distinguished Research Master and awarded the university's Gold Medal; and "in recognition of high attainments in liberal scholarship,"
• In 1996 was the first alumnus member of LSU's Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
• In November 2002 Sandoz delivered the commencement address and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor en Ciencias Políticas by the University Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.

Lectures

Sandoz presented a series of lectures on the thought of Voegelin, ethics, and constitutionalism sponsored by the Graduate Program of Ethics of the University of Oslo and the Research Council of Norway in Trondheim in October 1995. He lectured widely in the U. S. and Canada on the contemporary crisis of civic consciousness, foundations of constitutionalism, and modern political philosophy. He delivered the John Witherspoon Lecture titled "Republicanism and Religion: A Conspiracy of Faith and Reason" (Washington, D.C., April 2004); addressed University of Genoa conference on EU constitution-formation (May 2004).

Works

• Political sermons of the American founding era, 1730-1805 - Volumes 1 and 2 (1998)
• The Politics of Truth and other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness (U. Mo. Press, 1999);
• A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion and the American Founding (LSU, pb. 1991; 2nd ed., U. Mo. Press, 2001); Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730 to 1805 (Liberty Press, 1991; 2d ed., 2 vols., 1998)
• Eric Voegelin's Significance for the Modern Mind (LSU, 1991); Published Essays, 1966–1985, vol. 12,
• The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin (LSU, 1991); Published Essays, 1953–1965, ibid. (CW, vol. 11 [2000]); Published Essays, 1940–1952, ibid. (CW, vol. 10 [2000])
• Republicanism, Religion and the Soul of America; and Vol. 34 of Collected Works, Autobiographical Reflections (rev'd edn), Glossary of Terms, Cumulative Index, ed. with introductions by Sandoz (both U. Mo. Press, 2006).
• The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law (Missouri, 1993; 2d ed. Liberty Fund, 2008)
• Political Apocalypse: A Study of
  Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor
  , 2d ed. rev. (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books);
• The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction, 2d ed. rev. (New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction Pubs., Rutgers University);
• Sandoz wrote the introduction to the 2004 a revised edition of Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics and Gnosticism, ed. ( ISI Books).

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References

External links

• Eric Voegelin Institute
• Contact information
• Appearances on C-SPAN