TY - GEN N2 - This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression. AB - This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression. T1 - The Axial Age and its consequences DA - 2012. CY - Cambridge, Mass. : AU - Bellah, Robert N. AU - Joas, Hans, CN - Harvard University Press CN - CB311 PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, PP - Cambridge, Mass. : PY - 2012. N1 - Rev. papers delivered at a conference held July 3-5, 2008 at the University of Erfurt. ID - 484883 KW - Civilization, Ancient KW - Comparative civilization KW - Philosophy, Comparative KW - Religions SN - 9780674067400 TI - The Axial Age and its consequences LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067400 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067400 ER -