Kant’s Challenge

Philosophy and the Great Divide

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Online 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 [...]

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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
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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As 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 [...]

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