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We
conclude our short series of essays covering the basic ground of the eonic
effect, and the result generates a new sense of universal history, in a fashion
that is adapted to a perspective of science, yet able to encompass the breadth
of human emergence in the context of civilization, in all its complexity,
including the diversity of religion, especially against the backdrop of the
Axial phenomenon. Kant's acute analysis of the issues of causality and freedom
matches our analysis in the eonic model almost perfectly, and the result is a
coherent outline of history that shows the direct action of evolutionary
processes on human self-consciousness as this becomes the medium for the
evolution of freedom. We are left with a question, has man's evolution
completed? And we can see that the answer is that history is emerging from
evolution, and that man's completed evolution must be his self-evolution as a
free individual both within and beyond the matrix of evolutionary
civilization.
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