A Frequency Hypothesis 


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World History 
And The Eonic Effect
Civilization, Darwinism, and Theories of Evolution
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By  John Landon

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3. A FREQUENCY HYPOTHESIS  
     3.1 AN EONIC SEQUENCE, AND A FREQUENCY DEDUCTION  
        3.1.1 A Short History Of The World  
     3.2 MODERN TO POSTMODERN  
        3.2.1 Genesis Of The (Early) Modern  
        3.2.1 A Middle Age  
        3.2.2 Decline And Fall: The Idea Of Progress  
     3.3 THE AXIAL AGE  
        3.3.1 Synchronous Parallelism: A Minimum Principle?   
        3.3.2 The Frontier Effect  
        3.3.3 Again, A Middle Age: Detecting Sumer…  
     3.4 THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATION  
        3.4.1 Invisible Transitions? The Neolithic  
     3.5 THE EONIC EFFECT: PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM  
ENDNOTES  
     3.6 TRANSITION AND DIVIDE: A NEW MODEL OF THE MODERN  
        3.6.1 Freedom Evolves? The Discrete Freedom Sequence  
     3.7 SPENGLER, TOYNBEE, AND CYCLICAL THEORIES  
        3.7.1 Cycle, Counter-cycle: Floating Fourth Turning points  

A Frequency Hypothesis
       Having demonstrated the eonic effect, we begin the first of two outlines of world history expanding on the eonic pattern, the first moving from present toward the past, the next in chapters five and six moving from the past toward the present. Along the way we make a 'frequency deduction' and lay the groundwork for an 'idea for a universal history', to use the phrase of Kant, taken as an 'evolution of freedom'. The result is a perception of the real meaning of the term 'punctuated equilibrium'. We end with an examination of the 'modern transition', and the phenomenon of the divide, with a new way to look at the evolution of freedom in history. We close with a short look at the theories of Toynbee and Spengler and the difficulties they had with the 'unit of analysis'. 
 
 


 

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