Kant’s Challenge

This is a selection from the Introduction to World History And The Eonic Effect, and will used for later reference. Visions Of A Ghostseer The labyrinth of modern thought is a difficult one in which the unforgiving complexities of parallel dialectical movement, seen in the divergence of idealism and materialism, can leave understanding stranded in [...]

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Kant’s essay on history, pdf

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Kant’s essay is the object of a strain of interpretation according to historical materialism in certain quarters. Not so fast, we should say, with the intent to take a look at the idea of ‘asocial sociability’. A short and very accessible text, it avoids the technical language of Kant’s larger works, but was written right [...]

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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View[1] Source: Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784). Translation by Lewis White Beck. From Immanuel Kant, “On History,” The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1963. Transcribed: by Rob Lucas Introduction Whatever concept one may hold, from a metaphysical point [...]

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As we expand this blog it is appropriate to cite the text of World History And The Eonic Effect, with its website at eonic-effect.net, to create the context for a new approach to both Kant and the issue of transcendental idealism. We approach the issue not just philosophically but with a new type of historical [...]

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There are essentially two discoveries/gateways to ‘transcendental idealism’, that of Kant, and that of Schopenhauer. The study of the ‘eonic effect’ provides a third independent means, crude but effective, to arrive at this revolutionary framework. It does this without philosophic analysis, instead using direct pointing to a space-time framework of historical evolution. It also does [...]

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Welcome to a new blog dealing with Kant. This venture will focus in particular on Kant and the philosophy of history, in relation to the study of Kant’s essay on history and its analysis in World History And The Eonic Effect. The question of history and evolution as addressed by the study of the ‘eonic [...]

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