Table of Contents--Idea For A Universal History

Idea For A Universal History


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		4. IDEA FOR A UNIVERSAL HISTORY 4.1 FISHER’S LAMENT 4.1.1 Laws Of History And Popper On Historicism 4.1.2 Causality, Freedom And Self-consciousness 4.1.3 Deconstructing Flat History 4.2 HUXLEY AND SOCIAL DARWINISM 4.2.1 Ideology And Theory: The Oedipus Paradox 4.2.2 Conflict Theories: Incredulity Toward ‘Infranarratives’ 4.3 MAN MAKES HIMSELF 4.3.1 Macro-action And Micro-action 4.3.2 The Evolution Of Freedom 4.3.3 Theories, Dramas, And ‘Action Scripts’ 4.3.4 The Economic Interpretation of History 4.3.5 A Certain Strangeness: Beyond Space And Time? 4.4 KANT’S CHALLENGE 4.4.1 The Challenge Resolved And A Kant Fix 4.5 INTERMEZZO: FREEDOM EVOLVES! HUXLEY’S EVOLUTION #2 4.5.1 Free Will, Action Scripts, And Self-consciousness ENDNOTES 4.6 CRITIQUE OF HISTORICAL REASON 4.6.1 Kant’s Question, Teleology, And Asocial Sociability 4.6.2 Hegel, Marx, And The Legacy of Dialectic

			Idea For A Universal History
			Before embarking on our second outline of world history we stop to look at the basis of the eonic model in the antinomies of causality and freedom, in the process taking a look at the philosophy of history, and Kant's 'idea for a universal history'. We start with the classic critiques of 'historicism' and 'historical inevitability' and proceed to wrest an idea of the 'evolution of freedom' from the perception of the eonic sequence. The result is an elegant rendition of what we call 'Kant's Challenge' to resolve the dynamic of history in the context of free activity. Our distinction of macro-action and micro-action is put on a sound basis as a new kind of historical model free of the Oedipus Paradox, with a built-in way to bypass the confusions of Social Darwinism.

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