The Axial Age

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

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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 [...]

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Why everyone disowns the Axial Age

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Some posts on the Axial Age from Darwiniana

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One of the fallacies being perpetrated about the Axial Age is the possibility of a ’second Axial Age’, but the study of the eonic effect shows the problems with that view. The rise of the early modern shows the real ’second axial’ and it is proceeding toward secularism.
A New Axial Age
Karen Armstrong on the History—and [...]

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The Greek Archaic and the Axial Enigma
A post at Darwiniana on the relationship between the Axial enigma and the Greek Archaic period

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