Abstract
Eric Voegelin thought his “paradox of consciousness” was “the key to all his other works,” but no one has yet explored it as such a key. “participation” is the central term in Voegelin's philosophy, and the “paradox of consciousness” reveals the paradox of participation: a participant-partner is simultaneouslya partandthe whole(albeit in a perspective) of a reality of consciousness, like a marriage, a polity, or the cosmos.
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