Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV Definition of “Axial Thought” The Axial Age idea is the most concerted effort to… Read More »The European Idea Of Progress Supersedes The Axial Age: Part IV
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV Rituals in Simple Mythic Cultures According to Bellah, humans express their highest values and… Read More »The European Idea Of Progress Supersedes The Axial Age: Part III
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV “New Capacities” under conditions of “Relaxed Selection” Religion in Human Evolution has been called… Read More »The European Idea Of Progress Supersedes The Axial Age: Part II
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV [Editor’s Note: This article was thoroughly revised and published in The Occidental Quarterly: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337793013_THE_EUROPEAN_IDEA_OF_PROGRESS_SUPERSEDES_THE_AXIAL_AGE_AN_EXTENDED_ANALYSIS_OF_ROBERT_N_BELLAH’S_RELIGION_IN_HUMAN_EVOLUTION_FROM_THE_PALEOLITHIC_TO_THE_AXIAL_AGE]… Read More »The European Idea Of Progress Supersedes The Axial Age: Part I
The Presocratic Discovery of Logos Part II of this essay goes beyond the quantitative observation that Presocratic Greece on its own produced more original thinkers… Read More »The Axial Age and the European Discovery of Logos: Part II
In the beginning was the Presocratic discovery of logos The idea of an “Axial Age” was a boon to the ideological drive after WWII to… Read More »The Axial Age and the European Discovery of Logos: Part I
The Philosophers of the “Axial Age”: Socrates, Confucius, Buddha and Zarathustra From the nineteenth century through the 1960s and 70s, World History books did recognize… Read More »Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age, and a Common History for Humanity