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Harvard University Press eBooks· 2012· Book chapter

The Axial Age and Its Consequences

Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas

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Intellectual sophistication and a new self-reflective attitude toward human existence, including the concept of transcendence, emerged worldwide during the Axial Age (mid-first millennium BCE).

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