Kant’s Challenge, the blog, has two selections form World History And The Eonic Effect, on the resolution seen in the eonic effect of Kant’s question, in his essay on history:
Kant’s Challenge
The Challenge Resolved And A Kant Fix
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Kant’s Challenge, and the Challenge resolved
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
New Ages, the confusion, an archive file
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
This is a passage form the second edition, archived here, to be linked from The Gurdjeff Con blog, where the confusion of ‘New Ages’ is being discussed.
The forms of historicism include the myths of eons and epochs. Our model leads us through this terrain, yet gives us a handle on the mythological confusions. We [...]
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Selection, ‘Kant’s Challenge’, from WHEE
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
A selection from World History And The Eonic Effect, Kant’s Challenge
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The ’smash’ of civilizations
August 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Looking Back at Five Years of Bush’s Wreckage in Iraq
By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted August 26, 2008.
Bush’s supporters see the global war on terrorism as a “clash of civilizations” — yet the civilization we are destroying in Iraq is part of our own.
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Democracy and the ‘discrete freedom sequence’
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
One of the central themes of World History And The Eonic Effect is the study of the emergence of democracy in the eonic sequence, with the resulting suspense over the fate of this democratic stream. The article cited has the proper tone of suspense: How America’s empire will fall
In the year 432 B.C., Athenian statesman [...]
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