Re Karen Armstrong fans and OBA's 'compassion"/: The Axial Age Theorem

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Just wanted to add that the idea of the Axial Age was first developed by
the philosopher Karl Jaspers (see especially "Vom Ursprung und Ziel der
Geschichte", 1949) and, later on, got operationalized for the Social 
Sciences by the sociologist Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. Useful theorem, imo.
 
kfl
 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achsenzeit   


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> From: Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
> Subject: Re: Re Karen Armstrong fans and OBA's 'compassion"
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:52:50 -0800
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> On Feb 20, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> When asked what unites the ethics of the world's religions, scholar
>> Karen Armstrong
>> answered with the simplest of answers: "compassion".
>
>
>
> That's pretty much the message of her incredible "The Great
> Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions" but she
> goes into a great deal of detail and comparison of religions during
> the Axial Age, a period of about 600 BCE years.
>
> Bekah
>
>