Sentences with phrase «first axial»

At the first Axial Period, the ancient nature religions reacted strongly against the rise and spread of the new world religions, just as the Maori tohungas, for example, strongly resisted the message brought by the Christian missionaries.

As the First Axial Period gradually subordinated ethnic cultures to religious supercultures, such as Christendom or the Umma Muslima, this Second Axial Period is in turn subordinating the religious supercultures to a new and still emerging culture.

As 500 BCE marks the central point of the First Axial Period, so the 18th century Enlightenment marks the irreversible threshold of change by which the Second Axial Period brought us into the modern world.

In a similar way, in this Second Axial Period, the religious cultures arising from the First Axial Period feel threatened by the new secular and humanistic culture.

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

The effective success of this effort, transforming the whole of existence, is to be found in the first millennium before Christ and is the defining mark of axial man.

Second, one may well argue against my view, that although the Hebraic development as consummated in Jesus won out over the decadent Hellenism of the first and second centuries, this tells us nothing of its relationship to the healthy Hellenism of the axial period.

The next pages will be devoted to an attempt to explain the newness of axial existence first as individuality and then as freedom.

First, whereas both the Indians and the later Greeks were able to analyze the structures of their own existence with remarkable detachment and philosophical skill, no comparable self - objectification or philosophical ability is to be found among the Hebrews of the axial period.

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.

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.»

Viktor von Strauss, the first to notice the ancient cultural change that was later named the Axial Period, described what he observed as «a strange movement of the spirit [which] passed through all civilized peoples».3 Such «movements of the spirit» may be the key to our understanding of the next phase.

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

It was probably not until the axial age, when the Israelites began to experience mystery more explicitly in the mode of future and promise, that humans began first to realize that we do not dwell in nature with the same instinctive ease that other species do.

First, the ratios of neonatal versus adult diameter were calculated for axial eye diameter, transverse eye diameter and orbital aperture diameter (Table 2).

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

With regard to dealing with fear, despair, hatred, rage, and violence, the Axial sages gave their people and give us, Armstrong says, two important pieces of advice: first there must be personal responsibility and self - criticism, and it must be followed by practical, effective action.

[citation needed] Also in 2007, Axial Age (2005 — 2007), a monumental cycle of paintings, was shown for the first time at the 2007 Venice Biennale, with the wish explicitly expressed by the artist that the work should remain on display in Venice.

First, variations in the shape of the earth's orbit (more versus less elliptical), the axial tilt, and the direction of that tilt with respect to perhelion all combine to affect the relative seasonal insolation for the northern and southern hemispheres.