Sentences with phrase «axial forms»

During this time Gilliam experimented by taping and pouring colors, folding and staining canvases, and literally folding a still wet canvas against itself to imprint vertical, angular, and axial forms.

In the mid-sixties I opposed a unilinear view of human progress, but I continued to trace in the history of religions a progress from primitive, through archaic, civilized, and axial forms.

Whereas Christianity is in these crucial respects in a crisis of belief, Buddhism in its axial form feels secure.

Not exact matches

All of them were formed in what Karl Jaspers has termed the axial age, the middle of the first millenium before Jesus.

From the Axial Period onwards, a different and more permanent form of inter-ethnic social cohesion evolved.

The widespread success of Olympian religion, in leading the Greeks into axial existence, made possible a new form of government in which the masses of free citizens participated in basic political decisions.

Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.

Instinctive and unconscious elements continued prominent among axial peoples, but these forms of love could also contain a large element of autonomous conscious activity.

By the time of Jesus, the Jewish people as a whole were formed by this type of axial existence.

In one form or another it is part of the teaching of all the religions that developed in what Karl Jaspers taught us to call the axial age, the middle of the first millennium before Christ.

Cobb's analysis of the work of Christ is original, indeed astonishing.147 It includes a psycho - ontological comparison of the evolved structures of human existence — primitive, civilized and axial, and a differentiation of the basic forms of axial existence — Indian, Greek, Hebrew, and Christian.

Just as the cultural change of the Axial Period occurred more or less simultaneously and independently at several points on the earth's surface, so the new global form of spirituality may well germinate at many different points and then take more visible form as those points form a network.

A discussion of this important aspect of the Greek experience is not possible in this chapter, where attention is focused on Homeric existence as the original form of axial existence in Greece.

EVO Electric, a developer of advanced electric drive solutions for the automotive sector (earlier post), has formed a joint venture with GKN Driveline, part of GKN plc, to develop, manufacture and sell Axial Flux electric motors and drive systems for use in hybrid and electric vehicles.

If traction is reduced at one of the axles, the helical form of the gears and their oblique splines produce axial forces in the differential.

and all working together to form a crude electric motor that deflects charged particles from the sun, which also deflect charged particles from space — while also pulling on the molten core to divert its heat to different parts of the Earth's surface at different rates... while other rocks orbiting the sun, also affect the Earth's axial tilt, particularly Jupiter, thereby changing temperature - extremes.