The Axial Age
875-0 BC.
Greece: Parmenides, Socrates (469-399), Plato
Middle: East Elijah (875-848) Jeremiah, Jesus (0-33)
China: Lao Tso, Confucious
India: Upanishads, Buddha
Iran Plateau: Zoroaster (628-551)
Pre-Axial age had local gods. It didnít scale well. Forces at work- rapid urbanization, new kinds of market economies, mass movements of people, powerful new technologies.
All the major faiths evolved at this time. The emergence of soma, the individual.
Why? It is the natural order of things. These ideas followed the global trade networks.
Are we living in a second one? What would we expect if we were?
| Pre-Axial Age | Axial Age | Second Axial Age? |
| rural | urban | global |
| tribal | individual | networked |
| group conduct | personal conduct | commnal conduct |
| constant or cyclic time | progressive time | ??? |
| land of the dead | heaven and earth | here and now |
| spiritual mainframe | spiritual client-server | spirtual peer to peer? |
The current ethical scales may not be sufficient for our time.
Traditional systems do not have answers to some of our current issues. How do we respond to the possibility of immortality. Brain stimulation, augmentation. Genetic manipulation. Interspecies embryo.
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