The Axial Age

E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational’, and the relationship of the Greek Enlightenment to the Axial Age.

[Read more →]

We have already discussed the confusion in Armstrong’s book over Axial peoples, a phantom category: Armstrong’s confusion over Axial Spirituality/Axial Peoples
This type of confusion shows why people have such a hard time with the data of the Axial Age: they can’t figure out what they are ’seeing’, or what the phenomenon is. Armstrong goes [...]

[Read more →]

Darwin propaganda machine and whee

[Read more →]

Israel and Archaic Greece
the Axial interval in the Greek world can be seen in itself without the confusions of theology grafted onto it, and the basic dynamic stands out. We can then return to the Israelite case and see the way that the theology which the ‘output’ of the transformations is confusing us.

[Read more →]