The Mathematical-Historical Principles and the Evolution of LibertyFernández Bolívar, Víctor José
Philosophy
The Mathematical-Historical Principles and the Evolution of Liberty
Fernández Bolívar, Víctor José
History -- Philosophy
The
Stoa that during 500 years has had a maximum influence on the intellectual
formation of the Greeks and the Romans, proclaim the cyclical rhythm of
universal events, explaining them as an eternal return to what is equal and not
only similar. When stars return to being in the same position, a Socrates and
Plato will appear again, and each individual person will be born again with the
same friends and fellow citizens, he will suffer identically and will perform
the same activities and, each city, place, nation and field will again arise in
the same manner. Epicurean rejects as superstition the search for the great
universal year and the theory of the third rebirth. �In nature, everything can
return, but not in human life. Every human life is unique and individual and
only for this reason does it have a value and an incentive. Man�s birth and
death are accidents�.
In
reference to this, says Richard Lewinsohn in his book �The revelation of the
future�: �Now then, if millions of individual lives are not the same it
would not be possible for entire repeated eras to exist for humanity�. It is
true that the conception of the typical world of Epicurean does not
leave an adequate margin for historical studies, because, what lessons could be
taken out of history? The conception of Epicurean could be debated with multiple
arguments. Isn�t man a living being? Is he exempt of the law that governs
everything? I think that the mathematics of history of Dr. Deulofeu, that are
facts, make the school of philosophy of the epicurean fall on the wayside.
In
the Christian arena, in the beginnings of Christian literature, the 22 books of
Saint Augustine �On the City of God�, it can be considered that the idea of the
cyclical event is still alive. It is found with little change in the
ecclesiastical texts: �.... that terrestrial states appear and succumb as a
result of men�s sins�.� In the �History of the Future� of the Jesuit Priest
Antonio Vieira: �.... but at the end, there is always God�s kingdom, that which
is terrestrial flows into the supernatural where everything is perfect and
eternal, and where periodical catastrophes are already impossible�.
In
the Renaissance the ancient example again starts the search for the great
universal year. The word renaissance itself gives out a sense of cycle. The
Italian humanist, Julio Cesar Scaliger, combines astronomical cycles with the
tax collecting Roman period of fifteen years, period that is still used today
as a unit of time in the papal bulla of 15 years.� He thus obtains a
cycle of 7,890 years. This cycle, that has the name of its discoverer: �The
Julian Period�, had begun in the year 5,713 B.C., so that in Scaliger�s time in
order to reach its end, 1,700 years would have to pass.�
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