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Dans son nouveau livre, From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change [D’Akhenaton à Moïse : l’ancienne Egypte et le changement religieux] (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014), l’égyptologue Jan Assmann dit que le concept d’Age Axial du philosophe Karl Jaspers n’est « pas une théorie mais un mythe scientifique » (p. 94). Read more …
The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part I
Robert N. Bellah, theorist of the Axial Age
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Part 1 of 4
Only European peoples have made history and discovered the idea of time, and this is why the idea of progress is uniquely European: Only European history has been characterized by progress, and there can be no conception of historical time and no history without progression or without man becoming conscious of his role in the making of history, as well as the realization that only the mind can be the adjudicator of the truth. Read more …