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I’ve read part 1 of this series (the one in which the axial age is covered); I would certainly not…
In general terms, Habermas takes the Axial Age to have introduced new theoretical attitudes that include second-order thinking (thinking about…
You have Egyptian texts describing the equality of men as early as 2000BC. Henri Frankfurt has some tomb writings describing…
I’m neither a scholar of the period nor a Habermasian. Yet it bears emphasis that Habermas (and the Frankfurt School,…
The idea of the “Axial Age” was introduced by Karl Jaspers. It’s been used by some anthropologists, intellectual historians, and…
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For me, the worry about anachronism still basically holds. But (as Hans Joas[1] might put it, and as Evan Thompson…