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Tour the most formative period for religion and philosophy in world history. Join award-winning classics professor Matthew Dillon and explore the myriad developments of the Axial Age.
Axial Age refers to the era (800–200 BCE) when five Eurasian civilizations experienced an unprecedented period of development in philosophy, religion, and art. In this compelling audio course, Professor Matthew Dillon argues that the schools of thought that emerged in this period are integral to how we think about the big questions of existence today.
In 15 eye-opening lectures, Prof. Dillon makes the compelling case that the Axial Age was an ancient age of Enlightenment that has no parallel in world history. As you travel through the ancient cultures of China, India, Persia, Israel and Greece, you’ll learn how each region’s great thinkers developed an astonishing variety of ways of understanding the world and our place in it.
While you explore the contributions of Confucius, Socrates and the Buddha; examine works of Taoism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism; survey Homerian epics; and explore concurrent political and economic forces shaping the region, you’ll attempt to answer a central question: W
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sergio zenere (verified owner) –
this is not the first course on the Axial Age I listen to, but I appreciated this one. Personally, I am a skeptic as to whether there was an axial age mostly because it all depends on the date we set for this or that character. There are Buddhist denominations that preach how Buddha lived around 1000 BCE…most regard Lao-Tzu as a mere literary character who never lived in history (the “mascot” of a philosophical school) and some are now doubting whether even Buddha or Confucius were historical characters.