09.18.11
Slavery, Abolition, And Eonic Sequence
Slavery, Abolition, And Eonic Sequence
The previous post on morality, secularism and slavery is important, but needs amplification. And a formal dialectic. And beyond that I have to almost insist on a careful look at the eonic effect to see the way in which the emergence of freedom and abolition show a mysterious macro correlation.
The author is confusing secularism with the overall modern transition. The two are the same, but… The point he is making that is modernity challenged slavery. The problem is that modernity also produced an amplification of slavery. Or did it?
The eonic model deals with this question in the only way possible: distinguishing the action of a macro system, and the peripheral free action that goes with it.
But basically we can see the author is right: abolition never occurred until the rise of modernity. But, note, ironically the result was in large measure the result of certain religious Protestants, e.g. the Quakers. Along with the tide of secular freedom ideology, liberalism, and revolution.
It is also true that Christianity tilled the soil of ancient culture, stuck on slavery, and prepared the way for abolition.
Standard theories of history can’t solve this problem. All the contradictions disappear with the eonic model.
The Gurdjieff Con » The emergence of abolition, and a higher power in history said,
September 18, 2011 at 12:25 pm
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