1848+: Last and First Men

We cited this essay Jim Blaut and Jared Diamond here in the previous post.
In light of that post, here is a section from World History And The Eonic Effect on the sudden rise of the modern, with a brief discussion of Blaut.
6.1.1 Frontier Effects and The ‘European Miracle’
There is mysterious seminal generation springing from the [...]

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The Darwin debate and the left
On Intelligent Design and the Left
Cats, Dogs and Creationism
By JEAN BRICMONT
“The criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.”
–Karl Marx (Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right).
Jean Bricmont reviews the MR book on ID. I have commented on the book several times here, before [...]

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Darwinism= Social Darwinism, Liberal Confusion Over Darwinism

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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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