The idea of the evolution of freedom is a nest of contradictions of the Kantian type and routs almost all versions of an idea of evolution. But the idea is actually critical for any true theory of evolution. As we look back on history we see it indirectly and suspect the idea is not mystical evolutionism.
Tag: Kant
Revolutionary musings
R48G: revolutionary musings/abstractions? and a Kantian perspective….
May 6th, 2017 •
We have cited an older post from this spring on the subject of views of history and ‘Kant’s challenge’ to
find the logic or pattern of history.
Continue reading “Revolutionary musings”
The ‘end(s) of history’?
Kant’s challenge and the riddle of history
Kant’s challenge and the riddle of history March 27th, 2018 •
Source: Kant’s challenge and the riddle of history – Darwiniana
The limits of historical materialism
Kant’s questions about history as a foundation for a neo-marxism… May 20th, 2018 • Kant in some of his aspects might be a more useful foundation for a neo-marxism than hegel (who can be rederived v…
Evolution to history: freedom evolving
Note that the term ‘evolution of freedom’ is really a metaphysical concept and that standard science will simply exclude the term/concept. A true theory of evolution might also dispense with the term but the net equivalent in practice is essential (as Hegel seems to have understood, to say nothing of Kant)
Historical knowledge outstripping hegel/marx
Kant has a better starting point for analyzing history: the left is in a muddle between marx and (unspoken) hegel, but both are attempting to resolve the questions of kant.
With two centuries of research: archaeology, we are in a much better position to answer to kant, viz. the eonic effect…
Kant, free will, and the antinomies of reason
The free will debate lurks in the background of leftist politics, in part because of the deterministic confusions of marxist ‘mode of production’ theory. It is difficult to arrive at stable views here, for reasons that a study of Kant and his studies of the ‘antinomies of reason’ make clear. Although the debate is perhaps endless and intractably insoluble we can at least not attempt to inflict marxist dogmatism on socialism. Our various models speak of free agency instead of free will, which leaves the issue open yet has all the advantages on the free will issue.
There is no automatic path to postcapitalism: unless we act freely as free agents to create it we will drift into barbarism, mode of production theory blowing in the wind…
Kant, origins of ‘end of history’ meme, and the place of free agency
The strangest part of the ‘end of history’ confusion is that it points to something real but in a form that has suffered hopeless confusion of terms. From garbled hegel to leftist then rightist meme juggling the crypto-teleological term that came into being has courted pseudo-science, ideological tug of war, and neo-liberal apotheosis. Continue reading “Kant, origins of ‘end of history’ meme, and the place of free agency”
Hegel better understood using the eonic model…freedom in history
The ‘end of history’ meme has little to do with hegel at this point: to see the original point in that philosopher is better understood using the eonic model of the eonic effect: hegel is talking about freedom in history and that in the context of a (causal) ‘science’ of history…
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