History on a Story Arc
Back matter

Notes

Sources marked “to verify” are checked before the chapter is published.

1. The Diagnosis

  1. Jevons, The Coal Question (1865): efficiency and rising consumption. — to verify
  2. McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary (2009). — to verify
  3. Christian, The Alignment Problem (2020). — to verify
  4. Survey of 10,000 young people on climate anxiety (2021). — source to verify

2. The Conditions

  1. Aristotle, Poetics 6 and 11: plot, reversal, recognition. — to verify
  2. The four colour theorem as an example of a proof checked by machine. — to verify

3. Genesis

  1. Genesis 2–3, translated from the Hebrew.
  2. Genesis 3:9, “Where are you?”; 3:11, “Who told you?”

4. Romans

  1. Biblical passages are translated directly from the Greek. Verse numbers follow the standard division.
  2. Romans 5:12–14; 5:20 (5:20 checked against ESV). — 5:12–14 to verify
  3. Romans 7:9–10; 7:13; 7:15; 7:19; 7:24. — to verify
  4. Romans 8:1; 8:3 (8:3 checked against ESV). — 8:1 to verify
  5. Romans 9:1–5; 9:31–32; 10:2; 10:4. — to verify
  6. Romans 11:1; 11:11; 11:25–26; 11:32. — to verify
  7. Aristotle, Poetics 11: peripeteia and recognition. — to verify

5. Revelation

  1. Revelation 17–18, translated from the Greek. — to verify

6. Recognition

  1. Helen Keller, The Story of My Life (1903). — to verify

7. The Present

  1. Kairos and chronos. — sources to choose