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10.25.10
Posted in Evolution, liberalism at 1:11 pm by nemo
In discussing the essay by Chris Hedges at Truthdig the phrase ‘toward a postdarwinian liberalism’ came up: this was actually an essay/webpage from several years ago, still on the server at the history & evolution site:
It would seem that the kneejerk embrace of Darwinism by liberals will backfire itself in the end, because, whatever the flaws in intelligent design theory, the movement promoting it based its starting point on some legitimate criticisms of evolutionary theory that won’t go away. Anyone who finds problems with Darwin’s theory must be mindful of the misleading way in which conservatives have coopted challenges to Darwin, and the way they are testing the waters with intelligent design, with the quite obvious result that liberals will close ranks around the flawed version of Darwinism that has been so dominant for so long that noone can challenge it except powerful conservatives. Is this any way to do science?
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10.15.10
Posted in liberalism, Science at 11:59 am by nemo
Secular liberalism misunderstood
The rise of secularism is more than just the coming of science. There is a twin realization based on the science of the causal and emergence of freedom. This duality was beautifully discussed by Kant.
The reign of scientism will spoil liberalism, and ruin secularism.
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08.12.10
Posted in Critique of Evolutionary Economy, liberalism at 9:27 am by nemo
Econostream != Eonic Sequence
The previous post discussed Badiou’s confusion over market systems under liberalism, and liberalism as such. To blame liberalism for capitalism is a fallacy, and if you look at history you will see that while modern capitalism arose in same generation as modern liberalism it is a fallacy to equate the two. Note that the creators of democracy had no real grasp of the way that ‘market freedoms’ could be used to create a new form of class domination. And the correction, when it came, from the socialists, before and then with Marx, ended up in a muddle over the way history had unfolded. I recomment a look at the analysis in terms of the eonic effect: there we see independent emergence of capitalism (which actually has always existed) and liberalism.
The point is essential since the ideology of the leftist bourgeoisie conveniently equated capitalism and rights liberalism in their will to power toward totalitarian control.
To create socialism requires creating a liberalism to go with it.
But the left still can’t seem to realize Stalin was a problem!
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03.09.10
Posted in liberalism, secularism at 2:09 pm by nemo
Liberalism can be defended
by Ophelia Benson – butterfliesandwheels.com
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/5215
from dawkins site
Taner Edis thinks Gary Bouma is right about secularism and that Russell Blackford is wrong. I think Taner is mostly wrong that Russell is wrong that Gary Bouma is wrong. Still with me?
Note that, as often in the liberal tradition, the main pragmatic argument Blackford uses to promote a secular regime is that it helps keep the peace between rival sects…Such arguments tend to overlook how such reasoning is difficult to generalize beyond the context of Western European Christianity in the modern era.
Possibly. But then…this may sound crude, but the reality is, Western Europe is a pretty good place to live, and it and its descendants are better places to live than most of the rest of the world. Yes, that does sound crude, but it doesn’t sound exactly fictitious, does it. There aren’t great waves of migrants going from France or Canada or New Zealand to live in Pakistan or China or Nigeria, and that’s not just some random accident. Yes Western Europe and its descendants are prosperous as well as liberal, but then it is generally thought that there is a pretty strong connection between the liberalism and the prosperity. So even if it’s true that secularism currently seems easier to defend in (let’s call it) the liberal world than outside it, that doesn’t really indicate that the illiberal world (to put it crudely) has a good case for theocracy.
But today’s multicultural urban environments are different. We have to deal with not one fragmenting religious tradition, but people thrown together from very different faiths, including various kinds of Muslims, Buddhists, African Christianities, indigenous traditions, etc. etc.
Well not exactly ‘thrown together’ – as indicated above, it’s more a matter of people going to such places on purpose, for reasons, because they want to. It’s a matter of mass migration, of large-scale immigration, of people who are drawn to these places because, for whatever reason, they prefer them to their places of origin. For at least some of those people, secularism and liberalism in general are among the reasons, are among the attractions that draw people from all these very different faiths into today’s multicultural urban environments. It is not necessarily the case that people who move from one place to another want their destination place to transform itself into a simulacrum of the place they left behind. People don’t generally leave home in order to find the same thing elsewhere, so the fact that the new place has many unfamiliar aspects is not automatically a reason to change those aspects. For all anybody knows those are the very aspects that draw people in the first place.
[I]t is hard to say that individualist tendencies are clearly dominant over desires to retain some measure of community identity and cohesion. Governmental bodies, unless driven by an explicit secularism in the French style, can effectively deal with representatives of religious communities as intermediaries. Keeping the peace often means ensuring that South Asian Shiites and Korean evangelicals and so forth do not feel disrespected and disadvantaged.
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02.17.10
Posted in liberalism, Science, secularism, The Eonic Effect at 2:41 pm by nemo
Ferris’ attempt to smear over the classic issues of the philosophy of history with the crude sociology of scientism deserves a look at the legacy of the Enlightenment here. Scientists can’t claim the Enlightenment then trash its classics.
The question of a science of history is discussed at length in World History And The Eonic Effect and this is connected with what I call ‘Kant’s Challenge’, that is, the paragraph of his famous essay cited in this passage:
Kant’s Challenge
I am not an interpreter of Kant here, as such, but simply take his beautiful implied change to resolve the issue of freedom and causality across history. The pattern of the eonic effect provides a spectacular answer to that implied challenge.
Note that the eonic effect automatically picks up the question of the rise of liberalism (and science) and shows its deep relationship to the historical/evolutionary process of man’s descent, and creation of world civilization.
Let me note my suspcion here, for the umpteenth time by various authros, that Ferris is well aware of World History And The Eonic Effect and wants to produce an answer (without citing the book in question) that negates the apparoach indicated. One thing is sure these people are afraid of the challenge to produce a ‘science of history’. They can’t do it in conventional terms, and Ferris produces a whole book of moolah to distract attention from that fact.
Science the cause of liberalism? That’s a joke. As here, we see the effort to asphyxiate the public with the propaganda of scientism, and to eliminate history, as in any totalitarian system.
Make sure you don’t get drugged and put to sleep forever.
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Posted in Booknotes, liberalism, Science, The Eonic Effect at 2:29 pm by nemo
I also reviewed Ferris’ The Science Of Liberty. It won’t appear right away as a second review in one day.
I recommend a look at the eonic effect if you wish to indulge in causal analysis questions to do with the history of liberalism.
Despite its breezy style and superficial charm, this book, whether from ignorance or unspoken design, ventures into a quagmire of its own making, a point visible in the title itself. What a pity, since the book has a lot of potentially interesting material. But it seems to be a devious or sneaky book in the way it proceeds in a curious conspiracy of silence of its own making. Read the rest of this entry »
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02.15.10
Posted in Evolution, liberalism at 5:30 pm by nemo
Review of Ferris’ Science Of Liberty
The claims for science at the fount of liberalism are misleanding and false in the end, and we cannot forget that the emergence of Darwinism was a Whiggish class ideology in disguise generating Social Darwinist, and anti-liberal fascist eugenics projects.
In this sense Ferris’ claims are dangerously false. Further, this defect of Darwinism has shown no ability for scient to self-correct. Instead it has become frozen in the ambitious ideology of social exploiters behind a stupid front of ‘liberal Darwinists’.
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Posted in liberalism, Science, Science & Religion, The Axial Age, The Eonic Effect at 4:13 pm by nemo
The Case of the Missing Centuries
We already commented today on Ferris’ new book The Science Of Liberty. I haven’t read the book yet, and on one level his thinking may be straightforward, but it is NOT true that science led to the emergence of liberalism. The parallel independent emergence of liberalism and science is one of the enigmas of modernity, one that can be better understood in light of the eonic effect.
The mystery of the history of science is the way it correlates exactly with the eonic sequence, and the way it nearly dies out after the period of its first Axial Age flowering. The point here is that the dynamic of the history of science, and that of liberalism is macrohistorical, strange as that might seem at first.
We can see that science by itself can’t ensure its own survival, what to say of the generation of liberalism.
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01.31.10
Posted in 1848+, liberalism, Ultra Far Left at 4:20 pm by nemo
Lenin post
To be fair, the current logjam of manipulated liberalism producing idiocy is just the kind of situation that led Marx to his critique. Read the rest of this entry »
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01.26.10
Posted in liberalism, The Eonic Effect at 7:36 pm by nemo
Since we are on the subject of liberalism, consider the issue in light of world istory (and the eonic effect), The Politics of Evolution
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Posted in Booknotes, liberalism at 1:07 pm by nemo
The many faces of liberalism
By Samuel Brittan
The Neo-liberal State
By Raymond Plant
OUP £50, 312 pages
British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour
Edited by Simon Griffiths and Kevin Hickson
Palgrave Macmillan £60 256 pages
The Science of Liberty
By Timothy Ferris
HarperCollins $26.99 384 pages
Anyone searching for the underlying ideas behind the smokescreen of election battles is up against a preliminary difficulty: the key terms of political theory now have a very wide and often contradictory set of meanings. Read the rest of this entry »
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12.28.09
Posted in Kant, liberalism, The Eonic Effect at 1:19 pm by nemo
Do Human Rights Require Religious Beliefs?
What difference would it make if we accepted what Bernard Williams has called “Nietzsche’s thought”–”there is, not only no God, but no metaphysical order of any kind”?
One consequence, Nietzsche suggested, is that we could no longer believe that human beings were created by God in His Image and thus endowed with equal dignity. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche wrote: “The masses blink and say: ‘We are all equal.–Man is but man, before God–we are all equal.’ Before God! But now this God has died.” The modern morality of human equality is secularized Christian morality that cannot be continued after the death of God.
It seems that Darwinists are condemned to be Nietzsche suckers, unable to extricate themselves from the multiple fallacies that animate his thinking.
Nietzsche is so extreme that he wishes to decree a universe that guarantees his atheism, but that tactic backfires (and it evident in the New Atheists_).
If we examine the eonic effect we can see that without any theism or atheism (both tend to be sterile thought orphans) we can find an ‘idea for a universal history’ that demonstrates the evolutionary emergence of liberalism (and rights philosophies) in a non-random fashion. This powerful evidence simply can’t enter the narrow psyches of those brainwashed by Nietzsche’s oversimplifications, and second-rate travesty of Schopenhauer (thence Kant, with his powerful concepts of liberal rights)
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10.04.09
Posted in ethics, liberalism at 1:08 pm by nemo
http://chronicle.com/article/Michael-Sandel-Wants-to-Talk/48573/
Michael Sandel Wants to Talk to You About Justice
Taking his popular Harvard course to public television may raise the scholar’s profile and, just maybe, the tone of political discourse
Sandel’s discussion has a strong Kantian component, and the place of this in the Darwin universe is problematical, which means that Darwinism is problematical.
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08.29.09
Posted in liberalism, The Axial Age at 5:05 pm by nemo
Liberalism has let itself become a kind of false ideology associated with Darwinism and scientism, and it has become in part for that reason the object of hatred by religious conservatives who now associate it with atheism, but the real history of liberalism is something far deeper, with a connection to a ‘transcendent’ realm greater than that of the ideologically debased religions inherited from antiquity. The real history of liberalism is a long study, and its xray in the context of the eonic effect is illuminating: Freedom Evolves? The Discrete Freedom Sequence
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Posted in Evolution, liberalism at 4:35 pm by nemo
I have been rereading again: Nietzsche, Prophet of Nazism: The Cult of the Superman–Unveiling the Nazi Secret Doctrine
We have commented on this book here already.
Despite its limitations, and its failure to conform to the dogmas of the academic Nietzsche cult, this book is an eye-opener on certain points.
We have been discussing ‘liberal atheists’ today, and their fixation on Darwinism, with an unspoken Nietzsche strain in the background. It is a deluded combination of ideas, and one that historically, as this book makes clear, and Nietzsche scholars have suppressed, has combined genocidal fascism, Darwinian eugenics, and Nietzschean nihilism into an esoteric conspiracy of mass murder complete with exoteric cover story that has veiled the dynamics of what was really happening. We still don’t know the exact truth of the matter to this day. The rewriting of Nietzsche as some kind of liberal, by Walter Kauffman et al., in the wake of WWII is one of the more notable absurdities of this whole history.
Liberals need to be wary of the Nietzschean intellectual cult, its confusing embrace of Darwinism and eugenics, and the rest of it.
Nietzsche set a kind of standard for atheists, but almost all of his basic assumptions are wrong, and he was determined to sabotage liberalism. He got the whole modernity wrong, even as he spawned the postmodern fad in its embryonic form.
I think that liberals, in tradition of William Jennings Bryan, should be the dragon-slayers here, minus the cocky Nietzschean silliness of figures like Mencken at the Scopes Trial.
This is not a sermon about belief in ‘god’ by liberals, but the demand for a perspective that is historically robust, able to withstand the false histories of Darwinism and Nietzschean anti-modernism, and some awareness of the larger spiritual psychology of man, something that makes the Nietzschean eugenic genocidal project (always lurking like a viral strain in the cultural underground) a dangerous lunacy that could never work, for the simple reason that ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘natural selection’ are not the mechanisms of evolution.
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Posted in liberalism, religion, Science, The Eonic Effect at 4:18 pm by nemo
Comment on Liberal Atheists
Actually the left was long locked in a box comprising the narrowest scientism, Darwinism (despite Marx’s initial protests), materialism, and atheism.
And we can see how the left has suffered for that, a warning to liberals determined to let themselves be dominated by an increasingly cult-like science community determined to enforce Darwinian fundamentalism, Dawkins-style atheism, and the rest of it.
But liberalism was never a narrow cult such as Marxism became, something contemporary scientism is threatening to reinvent and impose on general culture armed with a new way to be ‘fanatic’: you must be ‘scientific’ and the science gang decides what you are to believe, for that reason. The resemblance to a priesthood is remarkable.
Liberalism emerged in the early modern in a remarkable symmetry with science, and the two found their harmony construed in the works of Kant.
The conflict of liberalism and religion is misleading, since in many ways the liberal tradition has deeper connection to the larger framework of the spiritual than religion does: I recommend very strongly a close look at the eonic effect and the history of liberalism in that context. It has a larger evolutionary status, and a connection to a larger spiritual framework, more than the ersatz ‘religion’ we call Christianity, which after all is a late creation of the world of the Roman Empire.
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08.25.09
Posted in liberalism, Science & Religion, secularism at 1:51 pm by nemo
UD cites a new book, Hunter Baker’s The End Of Secularism
It is not clear who has harmed the term ‘secularism’ more, the Darwin faithful, the New Atheists, or the ID-ists.
The result is a shift in the meaning of the term ‘secular’ which is destructive to all discussion.
So, let’s be clear: the secular is a temporal boundary emerging in sixteenth, then seventeenth century, in the emergence of a new modernity. Secularism is not therefore a belief system, as such, nor is it equatable with Darwinism, or atheism, or even the Enlightenment. Secularism includes Protestantism, and/or its critics/successors, etc…
The abuse of the term secular by those nervously fanatic about Darwinism as secularism have given ammunition to right-wing anti-modernists who wish to make the attack on the secular a restoration of religious traditionalism.
It is all futile. The secular is quite secure, short of a renewal of the thirty years war and the reactionary or fascist destruction of modern libreral pluralism….
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08.23.09
Posted in Evolution, Kant, liberalism, secularism at 2:11 pm by nemo
Toward a Postdarwinian liberalism
One of the confusions of the debate over evolution is the tendency over time for the parties to that debate to polarize over secularism and religion, itself a false division.
The challenge to evolution is in reality to the pseudo-science created from Darwinism, which is not a religious but a scientific issue. Darwinism has created bad science, with ideological abuse of scientific priniciples. The correction lies in a scientific critique of Darwinian reductionism, not in a right-wing ideology promoting religion.
Beyond that it would help if the challenge to Darwinism sprang from a liberal critique of Darwinian ideology and economics where instead we have a monopoly of conservatives: a veiled conservatie ideology of classical liberalism, and a critique of that that never mentions its economic/ideological aspects but instead invokes religious agendas.
To be sure, religious views provide a reality check, however crude, against the reductionist assumptions of science, which have shown themselves incapable of correction in the dumbing down of scientific cadres.
Christians tend to complicate all discussions by injecting their mythological belief systems into the discussion, thus bending out of shape such terms as ‘design’, or ‘faith’, or ‘miracles’, even issues of ‘ethics’. Battling Christians tends to drive scientists ever deeper into the reductionist trap.
The saddest thing about this is that scientists now claim the enlightenment when they have in fact destroyed it by making a religion of scientism.
Let us remember that the issue of scientism found one great resolution in the work of figures such as Kant who exposed the concealed metaphysics of religion and scientism both, and mediated the Newtonian world view in a fashion that should be easy for scientists to adopt and use. And yet this small gesture is too much for current science. The reductionist absolute found in Darwinian selectionism and its kin is the hybristic ambition of scientists now.
A genuine postdarwinian liberalism already exists and would embrace the culture of modernity and the idea of freedom (against possibly in a Kantian perspective) in relation to the culture of science and the idea of causality. The mediation of these two could create the basis for a genuine secualarism beyond the degenerate scientism of technocratic Big Science and the distintegrating and reactionary religious traditionalism of Christian conservatives.
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07.12.09
Posted in 1848+, liberalism at 1:01 pm by nemo
Hucklebird comment on Certain?
I think Hucklebird has gone totally astray on the freedom issue. First, the discussions of the Discete Freedom Sequence in the eonic effect are about historical patterns of data. There are givens of history, so what’s the argument?
Next, conservative critiques of modern freedom are mostly baloney. Either you believe in democracy and rights, or you don’t, in which case you are a fascist.
There is another dimension of declaring the freedom of autonomy. Hucklebird has not read any of the material at The Gurdjieff Con where just the kind of ‘freedom critique’ that Hucklebird has garbled from conservatives makes rogue sufis lick their chops at another volunteer slave.
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07.08.09
Posted in History, liberalism, The Eonic Effect at 5:30 pm by nemo
On Liberty at 150
John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty isn’t always convincing, but after 150 years it is still worth reading, writes Andrew Norton
On Liberty
By John Stuart Mill
First published 1859. Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, and many other publishers.
It is important for secularists to study the liberal tradition (Mill may not be the best source for this) when they get into false arguments with religious traditionalists.
The reason these traditionalists are insidious is that in the name of spirituality they are really denying freedom (unwittingly or not) and voiding the complex gains of liberal philosophers (or their proto-liberal sources, like Kant or Hegel) and their insistence on ‘autonomy’, and ‘religion within the limits of reason’, etc, etc,…
As you confront the existential situation of modern secularism the siren song of religious tradition can sound especially persuasive, especially next to the flatfooted confusions of scientism, or darwinism.
But the way to the future was glimpsed clearly at the dawn of liberalism.
Note that the idea of freedom is as much a challenge to scientism as anything in the muddled superstitions of religionists.
The basic architecture of liberalism, that is of free men in a free society, is clearest in the seminal works of Kant.
This venture in man’s self-consciousness is as profound as anything in religion.
(Note that Armstrong is beginning to challenge scientism, imitating who one wonders, while she would never challenge darwinism, bad for book sales. False prophet indeed)
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