6. Transition And Modernity


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World History 
And The Eonic Effect
Civilization, Darwinism, and Theories of Evolution
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6. Transition and Modernity 
     6.1 A New Age Begins  
        6.1.1 From Reformation to Revolution  
     6.2 An Age of Enlightenment  
        6.2.1 The Crisis of The Enlightenment  
        6.2.2 Theory and Ideology: Das Adam Smith Problem
        6.2.3 Toward a New Enlightenment 
     6.3 The Great Divide 
        6.3.1 Revolutions Per Second: The Rebirth of Democracy 
        6.3.2 Econostream != Eonic Sequence          
    6.4 System Shutdown: Between System Action and Free Action  
       6.4.1 The Curse of Mideonic Empire?      
NOTES  
     6.5 1848: End of Eonic Sequence?  
          6.5.1 Last and First Men
          6.5.2 Theory and Ideology: Out of Revolution
     6.6 New Ages
          6.6.1 The (Eonic) Evolution of Religion  
          6.6.2 The 'Axial' New Age
          6.6.3 The Great Freedom Sutra 
          6.6.4 Schopenhauer and The Caveman Buddhas
          6.6.5 Coda: Amlothi's Mill

 Transition and Modernity
       We conclude our outline of world history with an expanded look at the modern transition, and its Great Divide. The clock-like emergence of the modern period, seen as an eonic transition, and the onset of a 'New Age', suddenly stands out against the backdrop of the eonic sequence. From the Reformation to the Enlightenment the rise of modernity is seen as all of a piece, with its spectacular exhibit of the discrete freedom sequence in the rebirth of democracy. Seeing modernity in terms of our eonic model and the distinction of macro and micro-action clarifies many of the puzzles that haunt postmodern confusions. We conclude with a look at the myths of the New Age and show how the eonic model resolves them in terms of the eonic effect and its distinct series of 'epochs'. Our model allows us to bring 'evolution' into our present, even as it is displaced to a higher context in the two levels of our eonic model. The question of revolution, economics, and ideology comes to the fore and we suddenly see the resolution of the difficulties of Darwinism in the perception of an entirely new meaning of the term 'evolution'. 
 
 


 

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