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No second Axial Age

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

more at Darwiniana.com on failure to replicate the Axial Age

The Axial Age and religious evolution

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Fallacies of New Age Evolution
In that context, we see the interconnection of ‘evolution’ and religious issues, but in an abstract and indirect way, and there is no easy or simple way to connect this to the activity of individuals. The eonic effect shows an action on two levels, and the level of system evolution is [...]

From Darwiniana: why everyone disowns the Axial Age

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Why everyone disowns the Axial Age

Armstrong, Axial Age, and ‘compassion’

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Karen Armstrong and the Axial Age question
Her book The Great Transformation did immense harm to the archaeological site of the so-called Axial Age. Appearing in the wake of the first edition of World History And The Eonic Effect this book, without any acknowledgment stripped the Axial Age of its macrohistorical/evolutionary significance, and proceed to do [...]

Armstrong, Darwinism, Eugenie Scott

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

From Darwiniana
One of the major faults of Armstrong’s book on the Axial Age is the complete silence on the subject of evolution. Examine the index, nothing on Darwin, Darwinism.
This is not an accident. As I noted several months ago, Armstrong and Eugenie Scott have interacted.
It is impossible to grasp the issues of the Axial Age [...]

Confusion over Buddhism/monotheism in Axial Age

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Armstrong’s confusion on Buddhism/monotheism
James comments on Armstrong post
A good point from James: Armstrong seems to confuse the (admittedly) difficult question of the Axial Age with the idea of the same thing happening in different places at the same time, surely a distortion. We can grasp the Axial Age without carefully seeing its context, and then [...]

The Axial Age, and the ‘middle’ ages

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Selection from World History And The Eonic Effect, the last paragraph of one section leading into the next, with its question.
We are ready to move backwards again toward antiquity in search of the right perspective on the rise of the modern world. We have asked ‘middle of what?’ There can be only one answer, [...]

Some links to material on Axial Age

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Some posts on the Axial Age from Darwiniana