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RE: Philosophy 101, #14: What is Modernism and how does it contrast with Pre-modernism?
I'd be interested to know your opinion of whether or not there's a correlation here, more of a chicken or egg scenario, with Sir John Glubb's, The Fate of Empires.
You can find the entire .pdf on line, my overviews left out a lot of information because I tried to pare it down for today's audience but the original is only 31 pages long.
My question is whether these changes, inlcuding Hegel's Sittlichkeit, are following the pattern that Glubb describes in terms of the de-evolution (my term for lack of a better one) from a societal to a more selfish viewpoint of the population as an empire passes through it's lifecycle.
Hi, thank you for your comment. I am not familiar with John Glubb's The Fate of Empires, but have just found a pdf and will read it. :)
I'm really interested in your opinion about this.
I can see just from the info I've picked up in your posts, that there has definitely been a progression of thinking along philosophical lines away from spirituality and the similarities to what I read in Glubb's work really struck me.
BTW, I'm more than open to you pointing out differences in opinion you may have. I expect they'll be logical and well thought out.