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Entries from October 2008

Kant, the idea of freedom, and Darwinism

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Darwinism=Social Darwinism, liberal confusion over Darwinism discusses the idea of freedom in relation to modern scientism, and the relationship of the philosophy of history to theories of evolution.

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Tags: evolution · philosophy of history

Where are the Kantians?

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

From Darwiniana

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Review of Kant’s Politics

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Freedom’s Causality, a review of Kant’s Politics at Amazon.com

Here is a quote on this from the book:

What would “bridging nature and freedom” mean outside of politics? For Kant the big questions are nearly always epistemological: thus, bridging freedom and nature might mean specifying the conditions under which investigators of the empirical world (scientists) are [...]

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Tags: booknotes · philosophy of history

Soul beliefs and metaphysics, religious or scientific

October 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Where will you be after you’re dead has a discussion of ’soul metaphysics’ in light of the Kantian critiques, with a reference to issues of the transcendental deduction.

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Tags: metaphysics

Science of history, science of freedom?

October 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Selection from World History And The Eonic Effect

In a nutshell, there is, as yet, no methodologically sound basis for a theory of evolution. That’s a surprising statement, but the point will become obvious as we look at the gray area between history and evolution. We should recall the reservations of Kant, as to the hope [...]

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Tags: philosophy of history