booknotes
A certain strangeness
Monday, January 26th, 2009Online selection from World History And The Eonic Effect, Chapter 4, “Idea For A Universal History”:
A Certain Strangeness-Beyond Space And Time?
Our crude widget model has stumbled onto something remarkable, a resemblance to so-called ‘transcendental idealism’, a scheme tailor-made to rescue Newtonians in distress, but considered now to be an outmoded form of thought. Almost against [...]
The metaphysics of evolution
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008A 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 [...]
Review of Kant’s Politics
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Freedom’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 [...]
Herman Cohen and the Marburg school
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Discussion of Kantian Ethics And Socialism at Darwiniana
Kantian Ethics And Socialism
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Kantian Ethics And Socialism
Critique Of Historical Reason
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Another 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 [...]
Kant’s Challenge: The Challenge Resolved And A Kant Fix
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Another 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]