Archive for August, 2008
Visions of A Ghostseer
Thursday, August 28th, 2008This 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 the restricted [...]
Idea–another version
Monday, August 25th, 2008Kant’s essay on history, pdf
Kant and historical materialism?
Monday, August 25th, 2008Kant’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 between [...]
Idea for a Universal History
Monday, August 25th, 2008Immanuel 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 of view, concerning the freedom [...]
World History And The Eonic Effect
Sunday, August 24th, 2008As 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 [...]
Rediscovering ‘transcendental idealism’
Friday, August 22nd, 2008There 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 [...]
Welcome to Kant’s Challenge
Friday, August 15th, 2008Welcome 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 effect’ [...]