Kant’s Challenge

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 do [...]

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Discussion of Kantian Ethics And Socialism at Darwiniana

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Kantian Ethics And Socialism

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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 [...]

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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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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 teleological [...]

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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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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 data, data [...]

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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 difficulties in [...]

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