1848+: Last and First Men

Beginning of Harry Van Der Linden’s Kantian Ethics And Socialism, Hackett, 1988 Around the turn of the century the neo-Kantian socialist Hermann Cohen wrote in his Introduction and Critical Epilogue to Friedrich Albert Lange’s History of Materialism that Kant “is the true and real originator of German socialism.’” His claim, of course, is not to [...]

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A selection from World History And The Eonic Effect 1848: End Of Eonic Sequence? We reach the end of our eonic sequence, as our model forces a distinction of the early modern and the new period at the end of this transition as the new system comes into play. The rough year 1848 is useful, [...]

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A selection from World History And The Eonic Effect: A first attempt to answer Kant’s Challenge lies in Hegel (and the other post-Kantians), and his grand philosophic effort whose appearance, timing, and unfolding is itself ‘eonically significant’, and almost spectacular, but our viewpoint is different, springing directly from Kant. A simple systems model has yielded [...]

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Relevant to our consideration: From The New Hegelians, Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School, ed. Douglas Moggach, Cambridge, 2006 In Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason Kant strips down the Christian religion to what he regards as its moral core. This is the pursuit of virtue with the aim of founding with all [...]

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Here is a selection from the Preface to World History And The Eonic Effect, which can clarify the ‘onset of the eonic model’, and its discussions of theory and ideology. The phrase ‘Nous ne sommes pas Marxistes’ should be analyzed carefully by qualified experts. Its meaning might surprise you. This is the third revised edition [...]

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The question of the philosophy of history hovers ambiguously between Kant and Hegel. The study of the eonic effect adopts a variant of the Kantian concept as it appears in his essay on history, Idea For A Universal History, and proceeds to construct an eonic model, one that can bring a fresh perspective on the [...]

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Here’s a short Amazon review I did, a long time ago, of an important book: Hegel Myths and Legends by Jon Stewart 5.0 out of 5 stars The ‘end of history’ and a Hegel Myth, October 16, 2001 By John Landon “nemonemini” This fascinating book addresses, and counters, the many false interpretations of Hegel that [...]

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I am looking at (once again) Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805-1841 (Paperback) by John Edward Toews The key to the classic left, or its failure, lies, of course in the era of Hegelianism, and Toews book, among a host of others, examines the post-Kantian lead up to the generation of the 1840′s. Somewhere [...]

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We are thrust into our subject, post haste, The Future of Work: Where the Labor Movement Is Heading Global Labor Strategies. Posted September 1, 2008. Conventional trade unionism is pretty much over. On Labor Day, it’s time to figure out what should come next. I post a comment,… The old ‘old left’ and the future [...]

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