Triadic history model

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A triadic history model is the idea that the development of mankind took place in three phases.

Mostly triadic historical models assume that mankind originally found itself in a paradisiacal primal state, which is initially attributed to antiquity - in the classical period - and later (in the romantic period ) to the Middle Ages. However, this original unity has been lost, so that people are alienated from their own being in the present and are no longer in harmony with nature and society. According to the model, however, this second phase carries the hope of regaining the paradisiacal state of nature - for example through art. An early triadic historical model is that of Joachim of Fiore , according to which the first age is that of the Father, the second that of the Son, Christ , and the third (“Third Kingdom”) that of the Holy Spirit .

literature

  • Magdalena Boettcher: A different order of things. On the aesthetics of the beautiful and its poetological reception around 1800 . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-8260-1391-3 , p. 132 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).