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The Svadharma Doctrine & Existentialism
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Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age, & a Common History for Humanity
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The Axial Age & the European Discovery of Logos, Part I
2,821 words . . . was the Presocratic discovery of logos. The idea of an “Axial Age” was a boon to the ideological drive after WWII to envision the history of all cultures as a “collective” undertaking...
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Jan Assmann’s Critique of the Axial Age
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The Axial Age & the European Discovery of Logos, Part 2
3,055 words Thinkers East and West Part 1 here The Presocratic Discovery of Logos Part 2 of this essay goes beyond the quantitative observation that Presocratic Greece on its own produced more original...
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Crítica a la Era Axial por Jan Assmann
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Karl Jaspers, l’Age Axial, et une Histoire Commune pour l’humanité
Karl Jaspers, 1883–1969 3,106 words English original here Du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux années 1960 et 1970, les livres de l’Histoire Mondiale reconnaissaient les divers accomplissements de toutes les...
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Critique de l’Age Axial par Jan Assmann
1,581 words English original here 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...
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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part I
Robert N. Bellah, theorist of the Axial Age 3,787 words 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:...
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Being There: Walter Kaufmann’s Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
Walter Kaufmann 1,649 words What, then, is this that we call existentialism? –– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism Sartre formulates the basic formula of existentialism in these words:...
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