On the Differentiation Between Morality and Politics: Reassessing the Idea of the Axial Age
The idea of the Axial Age was introduced by Karl Jaspers in his 1949 book on The Origin and Goal of History . Its main contention is that comparable yet independent ideas of transcendence emerged between 800 and 200 BCE in China and India (Buddhism and Hinduism), Persia (Zoroastrism), Greece (classical philosophy),...