2.1 A Science Of History?
Last modified 05/21/2008
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We have the gist of the eonic model at hand, and can quickly map out some
basic terminology, and a few further areas of study, adjourning to the text of World
History And The Eonic Effect itself. We can return to our question of a
science of history in light of what we have discovered, and the beginnings of
the model we have set up. We are a long way from a complete science of history,
but we have discovered where least expected what must almost by definition be
taken as the main construct in any such question of a science of history. The
reason is that our gesture has applied, at least in principle, the concept of
causality to world history as a system, and the result was to see the question
resolved in the eonic effect, as an 'eonic sequence' of transitions, the Axial
Age between one such. This is a loose kind of macro factor, one that is braided
with the cultural streams of freely created historical situations. These
situations are driven by a mainline of driving macro evolution that is
intermittent in its action, leaving the form of the realization very often to
the field of free activity.
Thus instead of deterministic explanation we have something more complex and far more interesting: a system braided with the free activity of those inside that system, and this 'science' has suddenly turned into an 'evolution of freedom'. |
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