The Axial Age And Its Consequences
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The Axial Age And Its Consequences
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Author : Robert N. Bellah
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-31
The Axial Age And Its Consequences written by Robert N. Bellah and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Religion categories.
This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression.
The Origins And Diversity Of Axial Age Civilizations
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Author : Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1986-09-30
The Origins And Diversity Of Axial Age Civilizations written by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-09-30 with History categories.
This book presents a new and original analysis of the great ancient civilizations, focusing on the breakthroughs and their institutionalization in Greece, Israel, China, and India. The conditions under which these civilizations developed are systematically explored. For comparative purposes, the civilization of Assyria, where such a breakthrough did not take place is analyzed.
The Origin And Goal Of History
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Author : Karl Jaspers
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-28
The Origin And Goal Of History written by Karl Jaspers and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-28 with Education categories.
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. He was Hannah Arendt’s supervisor before her emigration to the United States in the 1930s and himself experienced the consequences of Nazi persecution. He was removed from his position at the University of Heidelberg in 1937, due to his wife being Jewish. Published in 1949, the year in which the Federal Republic of Germany was founded, The Origin and Goal of History is a vitally important book. It is renowned for Jaspers' theory of an 'Axial Age', running from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. Jaspers argues that this period witnessed a remarkable flowering of new ways of thinking that appeared in Persia, India, China and the Greco-Roman world, in striking parallel development but without any obvious direct cultural contact between them. Jaspers identifies key thinkers from this age, including Confucius, Buddha, Zarathustra, Homer and Plato, who had a profound influence on the trajectory of future philosophies and religions. For Jaspers, crucially, it is here that we see the flowering of diverse philosophical beliefs such as scepticism, materialism, sophism, nihilism, and debates about good and evil, which taken together demonstrate human beings' shared ability to engage with universal, humanistic questions as opposed to those mired in nationality or authoritarianism. At a deeper level, The Origin and Goal of History provides a crucial philosophical framework for the liberal renewal of German intellectual life after 1945, and indeed of European intellectual life more widely, as a shattered continent attempted to find answers to what had happened in the preceding years. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Thornhill.
Religion In Human Evolution
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Author : Robert N. Bellah
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Religion In Human Evolution written by Robert N. Bellah and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Religion categories.
This ambitious book probes our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have imagined were worth living. Bellah’s theory goes deep into cultural and genetic evolution to identify a range of capacities (communal dancing, storytelling, theorizing) whose emergence made religious development possible in the first millennium BCE.
Axial Civilizations And World History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004-09-01
Axial Civilizations And World History written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-01 with Religion categories.
The overarching theme of the book is the historical meaning of the Axial Age, commonly defined as a period of several centuries around the middle of the last millennium BCE, and its cultural innovations. The civilizational patterns that grew out of this exceptionally creative phase are a particularly rewarding theme for comparative analysis. The book contains essays on cultural transformations in Ancient Greece, Ancient Israel, Iran, India and China, as well as background developments in the core civilizations of the Ancient Near East. An introductory section deals with the history of the debate on the AxialAge, the theoretical questions that have emerged from it, and the present state of the discussion. The book will be useful for comparative historians of cultures and religions, as well as for historical sociologists interested in the comparative analysis of civilizations. It should also help linking the fields of classical, biblical and Asian studies to broader interdisciplinary debates within the humanities sciences. Contributors include: Johann P. Arnason, Björn Wittrock, Peter Wagner, Arpad Szakolczai, Jan Assmann, Piotr Michalowski, Shaul Shaked, Israel Knohl, S.N. Eisenstadt, Kurt A. Raaflaub, Guy G. Stroumsa, David J. Levy, Jan Retsö, David Shulman, Sheldon Pollock, Hsu Cho-yun, Christoph Harbsmeier, and Frederic Wakeman Jr.
From The Axial Age To The Moral Revolution John Stuart Glennie Karl Jaspers And A New Understanding Of The Idea
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Author : E. Halton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-07-04
From The Axial Age To The Moral Revolution John Stuart Glennie Karl Jaspers And A New Understanding Of The Idea written by E. Halton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-04 with Philosophy categories.
In 1873, John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated a theory of 'the moral revolution' to characterize the historical shift from roughly 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, as part of a critical theory of history. This book brings light to the now eclipsed theory and offers new contexts and understandings of the phenomenon.
A Fundamental Theological Study Of Radical Secularization And Its Aftermath
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Author : Alpo Penttinen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-17
A Fundamental Theological Study Of Radical Secularization And Its Aftermath written by Alpo Penttinen and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-17 with Religion categories.
In the wake of various secularization processes, a growing number of people in Western societies are now describing themselves as “non-religious.” But what does this sociological fact really mean, for the Church and for society at large? Has human religiosity a future after secularization? It does, this book argues, but in a radically altered form. Taking its cue from Pope Francis’s suggestion that globalizing humanity is presently living through a genuine “epochal shift,” this book presents an original analysis of the transformative effect of secularization on our spiritual predicament in the Western, now definitively post-Christian, world. Instead of succumbing to the all-too-common polarizations in contemporary religious discourse, this book aspires to overcome the “religious” vs. “secular” dichotomy through developing the logic of “Radical Secularization,” arguably the genuine novelty of the particularly Western process of secularization. The past homogeneously religious culture is certainly dusking, but this only paves the way for the dawn of the future and radically open horizon for our human search for meaning. This challenging book will offer intellectual impulses and spiritual incentives to everybody who ponders the future of human religious evolution after secularization.
Convenient Myths
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Author : Iain William Provan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Convenient Myths written by Iain William Provan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Civilization categories.
A world rooted in undisturbed myths
Critical Theory And Transformative Learning
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Author : Wang, Viktor
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2018-06-04
Critical Theory And Transformative Learning written by Wang, Viktor and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-04 with Education categories.
Engaging in genuine dialogue and authentic communication is essential for teachers to assist students’ successes and help them further their education through refining critical thinking skills beyond the classroom. Critical Theory and Transformative Learning is a critical scholarly resource that examines and contrasts the key concepts related to critical approaches in educational settings. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics including repressive tolerance, online teaching, and adult education, this book is geared toward educators, administrators, academicians, and researchers seeking current research on transformative learning and addressing the interconnectedness of important theories and praxis.
The Anthem Companion To Karl Jaspers
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Author : Hans Joas
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2025-04-15
The Anthem Companion To Karl Jaspers written by Hans Joas and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-15 with Social Science categories.
This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers’s philosophy for the social sciences. It also includes classical evaluations of Jaspers’s thinking by renowned authors Talcott Parsons and Jürgen Habermas. Several chapters are devoted to the relationship between Jaspers and his teacher (Max Weber), his famous student (Hannah Arendt) and crucial figures in his intellectual world (Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Simmel). Others deal with his relevance for disciplines from psychiatry to the study of religion and the historico-sociological research about the Axial Age, a term coined by Jaspers. In his introduction, editor Hans Joas tries to systematise Jaspers’s relevance for the contemporary social sciences and to explain why Parsons had called him a ‘social scientist’s philosopher’. The book promises to become an indispensable source in the re-evaluation of Jaspers’s thinking in the years to come.