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Entries from September 2008

Help wanted, Kantian cops to bust metaphysician

September 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Post on the philosopher J. G. Bennett But his systematics isn’t rigorous enough for this kind of grafting. Things pop out of the woodwork with a kind of facile logic that can leave you paralyzed at what seem to be valid, often cogent, insights, but which conceal the outrageous premises of the whole operation. To [...]

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Herman Cohen and the Marburg school

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Discussion of Kantian Ethics And Socialism at Darwiniana

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Kantian Ethics And Socialism

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Kantian Ethics And Socialism

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Note to a reader of WHEE

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

As to WHEE, I am delighted you are reading the text. The book first describes a non-random pattern, the eonic effect, or ‘eonic sequence’,  then sets up a simple model to reflect the data. The model can be taken simple as a scheme of periodization, without any theory, but shows a remarkable relationship to some [...]

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Freedom’s Causality, Teleology And Politics

September 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Another selection from World History And The Eonic Effect Freedom’s Causality, Teleology And Politics The inherent power of our eonic model exposes at once a curious contradiction in the teleological thinking of Kant. Kant is confusing here because he produces a splendid critical methodology for the mediation of teleological issues, but ends stuck with the [...]

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Kant’s Question, Teleology, And Asocial Sociability

September 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Another selection from World History And The Eonic Effect Even as we examine Kant’s essay on history we develop a critique of one aspect of Kant’s thinking, which devolves, at least in the minds of some, into another conflict theory. Even as this happens Kant is proposing a new and brilliant method of dealing with [...]

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Critique Of Historical Reason

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Another selection from World History And The Eonic Effect Critique Of Historical Reason It is remarkable that just at the modern divide appears German classical philosophy. Its philosophies of freedom are themselves a part of the discrete freedom sequence! Furthermore we see that the eonic effect contains an expression of Kant’s Third Antinomy in its [...]

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Kant’s Challenge: The Challenge Resolved And A Kant Fix

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Another selection from the third edition of World History And The Eonic Effect The Challenge Resolved And A Kant Fix Within two centuries the necessary data is emerging for the first time to resolve Kant’s Challenge in unexpected fashion. But we must fix the confusion over asocial sociability that flows into the vacuum of archaeological [...]

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Kant’s Challenge: selection from WHEE

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s a selection from World History And The Eonic Effect Kant’s Challenge Our framework is complete, but it is useful, and appropriate, seeing the resemblance to transcendental idealism, to connect our model with a classic theme of the philosophy of history, in the title of this chapter, in the process solving one of the classic [...]

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