Sentences with phrase «called axial»

So far as I know, all the religions either arising in what Karl Jaspers called the axial time, or deeply shaped by insights developed during that period, have strong universal elements.

Ever since the so - called axial period (from about the middle centuries of the first millennium BCE.)

This period has been aptly called the axial age by philosopher Karl Jaspers.

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.

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Some now call it the Second Axial Period.

Karl Jaspers has proposed that we extend the period of our attention to the six centuries from 800 B.C. to 200 B.C. and call this the «axial period.»

But on the continent of Asia, where the Axial Period occurred, the nature religions were eliminated, marginalised, or submerged within what we now call the great world religions.

In the middle part of the millennium before Christ a new type of thinking arose, reflecting a new type of existence, called by Karl Jaspers, «axial period,» and what distinguished axial man was the new role of rationality in the structure of his existence.

In the first chapter of my book Through the Moral Maze, * I talk about the most significant of those periods of great intellectual change in human history, the so - called «Axial Period» about 2,5 OO years ago, also sometimes called the period of «The Great Awakening.»

The word «God» is a symbolic term which is no less a human creation than the class of beings called «gods», which «God» came to replace at the Axial Period.

The belief explains why Augie March kept looking for what he called «the axial lines,» why Sammler kept trying to find out the terms of his «contract,» and why Henderson tried to find out what it was he was looking for.

The roots of the Second Axial Period can be traced as far back as 14th century Christendom, where it was already being called the «via moderna» or modern way of thinking.

In our solar system, the Earth's orbital plane is known as the ecliptic, and so the Earth's axial tilt is officially called the obliquity of the ecliptic.

Scientists came up with a replacement «contact» lens called COSTAR (Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement) to repair the defect in the HST.

Given the ropelike appearance and axial position of this muscle, we propose to call it «axochord.»

This three - shaft (also called three - axis) design results in a very short axial length for better packaging.

The first people to attempt an Axial Age spirituality were pastoralists living on the steppes of southern Russia, who called themselves the Aryans.