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What changed during the axial age: Cognitive styles or reward systems? [PDF]

open access: yesCommun Integr Biol, 2015
The ‘Axial Age’ (500–300 BCE) refers to the period during which most of the main religious and spiritual traditions emerged in Eurasian societies. Although the Axial Age has recently been the focus of increasing interest,1-5 its existence is still very ...
Baumard N, Hyafil A, Boyer P.
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The Axial Age and the Problems of the Twentieth Century: Du Bois, Jaspers, and Universal History. [PDF]

open access: yesAm Sociol, 2015
The axial age debate has put big questions of social and cultural change back on the agenda of sociology. This paper takes this development as an occasion to reflect on how social thought works with (and against) nineteenth-century intellectual ...
Boy JD.
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Gender issues in Confucian ethics in contemporary Vietnam

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2023
Confucianism like Taoism is a part of the treasury of the world spiritual culture as created by the “axial age” (K. Jaspers); however, time affects even the most humanistic teachings, many of the provisions of which can be formalized, become obsolete ...
S. A. Nizhnikov, Tien Bac Pham
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REX IUDÆORUM: FROM THORNBUSH TO THE CROWN OF THORNS

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії, 2022
The aim of this study is to trace the development of the messianic thought from its pre-monarchic roots (Pre-Temple) to the monarchic period (First Temple), to the post-exilic period (Second Temple), and to the post-Second Temple period.
Denys Bakirov
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Buddhism as Teaching of the “Axial Age” in the Work of Alexander Men

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022
The article analyzes the interpretation of Fr. Alexander Men (1935-1990) of Buddhism as teaching of the “Axial Age”. It is based on his seven-volume work “History of Religion: In Search of the Way, Truth and Life” (1970-1983).
Sergei A. Nizhnikov, Hong Phuong Le Thi
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Scale, Information-Processing, and Complementarities in Old-World Axial Age Societies

open access: yesJournal of Social Computing, 2022
Recent cross-disciplinary work on quantifying historical dynamics has made major contributions to scholarship. However, efforts to specify relationships between scale and information-processing always run a risk of shoehorning messy realities into overly
Ian Morris
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Theory of “Cultural Memory” by J. Assmann and Reflection of Multiculturalism: Myth, Memory and Remembrance in Cultures of “Axial Age”

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2023
The paper discusses various aspects of the concept of “cultural memory” coined by Jan Assmann and related both to the problem of determining the categories of culture that became the first objects of philosophical reflection in the era of the Axial Age ...
Vladimir V. Zhdanov
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Nonsemantic word graphs of texts spanning ∼ 4500 years, including pre-literate Amerindian oral narratives

open access: yesData in Brief, 2021
Non-semantic word graphs obtained from oral reports are useful to describe cognitive decline in psychiatric conditions such as Schizophrenia, as well as education-related gains in discourse structure during typical development.
Natália Bezerra Mota   +4 more
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The History of Writing Reflects the Effects of Education on Discourse Structure: Implications for Literacy, Orality, Psychosis and the Axial Age.

open access: yesTrends in Neuroscience and Education, 2020
BACKGROUND Graph analysis detects psychosis and literacy acquisition. Bronze Age literature has been proposed to contain childish or psychotic features, which would only have matured during the Axial Age (∼800-200 BC), a putative boundary for ...
Sylvia Pinheiro   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Factors associated with faster axial elongation after orthokeratology treatment

open access: yesBMC Ophthalmology, 2022
Background To study the baseline factors that related to faster axial elongation after orthokeratology (OK) treatment and the characteristics of cases with axial length decrease in a group of myopia children. Methods This is a retrospective study.
Ya Qi, Lizhou Liu, Yu Li, Fengju Zhang
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