Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Nature and the End of History

As has been previously discussed, a Kantian Cosmopolity may be 'peaceful' only because 'war' is defined as a conflict between independent Nations, and such independence has been absorbed into the pervasive body.  Furthermore, such Peace does not entail a cessation of hostilities that are unbeknownst to Kant--worldwide Class-Conflict, a condition that is not only a fundamental feature of Marxism, but is exemplified in the current process of Globalization.  However, Marxism, too, cannot presume that its Socialist Cosmopolity is conflict-free.  For, according to its own principle of Dialectical Materialism, new antagonisms will be generated from within that condition, as at least some Marxists acknowledge.  Indeed, as only Nietzsche seems to fully recognize, the premise of an insuperable end of History is groundless, and is perhaps wishful thinking in the face of the possibility that Nature is a tenporally indefinite principle.  Even Darwin shrinks from countenancing that, when he subordinates Evolution to Survival.

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