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The deeper our knowledge of anthropology becomes, the more, I think, shall we become aware of the fact that the most telling instance of the law I am discussing took 48 ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY place in the ages when mankind passed from its childhood to its adult state. No progress upward was more im- portant than this coming of human thought and human societies to rational knowledge (as contradistinguished from mythical knowledge) and to political life (as contra- distinguished from tribal life).
In the second case), and whose convergence with my own conclusions is all the more interesting to me. 28 Pieper, to my mind, makes the whole opus philosophicum too dependent on theology. But, and this is what matters most for me, he insists that no philosophy of history is possible without the illumina- tion of theology, for, as he puts it, the essential question for the philosopher who contemplates history is: what is the end of history? "A question which deals with the sal- vation and doom of man.
The typological laws in the philosophy of history, which I mentioned in my Preliminary Note, have to do with these various historical climates. I shall consider them in Chapter III. With the question of the structure of time, which I just touched upon, the question of its irreversibility (or of its not cyclical, but "linear" or "vectorial" character) is closely connected. In this regard, I would like to bring to our attention some significant observations made by Mircea Eliade. 3 he stresses the fact that the acceptance of timeâand of historyâfar from being matter-of-course for man, is for him a difficult and dearly paid achievement.
