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Axial Age (also Axis Age, from the German Achsenzeit) is a term coined by the German philosopher Karl Jaspers. It refers to broad changes in religious and philosophical thought that occurred in a variety of locations from about the 8th to the 3rd century BCE.
24 de mar. de 2013 · Conceived as an event, the idea of an axial age entails specific spatial parameters dividing the world into axial and non-axial civilizations, and history into pre-axial and post-axial phases.
- John D. Boy, John Torpey
- 2013
Inspired by the evolutionary and cognitive perspective of Merlin Donald, Bellah emphasizes that the Axial Age is expressive of the possibilities that opened up to humankind at the time of the emergence of a fourth evolutionary stage in the development of human culture.
- Björn Wittrock
- 2015
6 de jun. de 2019 · This chapter presents a “big picture” view on the unprecedented growth of civilizations and power—imperial size, urbanization, militarization, and population growth—in the first millennium BCE, as context for the Axial Age.
- Christopher Peet
- Chris.Peet@kingsu.ca
- 2019
The Axial Age plays a central, foundational, or crucial role in human history. The idea is not universally accepted, however, because it implies a knowing directive force behind the unfolding of history.
6 de jun. de 2019 · Following the sociological attention paid to empirical particulars, this chapter summarizes the comparative sociology of the Axial Age civilizations of China, India, Israel, and Greece, focusing on the new class of dissident intellectual created (the shi, shramana and sannyasin, prophets, and philosophers, respectively).
This chapter analyses the characteristics of the ‘axial civilizations’ or those civilizations that crystallized during the time from 500 bc to the advent of Islam in the seventh century ad. It then outlines some of the major similarities and differences between them and how they influenced or shaped the common characteristics of modernity.
