04.27.06
Posted in Evolution at 7:10 pm by nemo
blog links on Armstrong/Axial Age on this blog
Times
Review of Armstrong
20 Apr 2006 by nemo
Armstrong’s emphasis on non-violence is to be
commended, but the evidence contradicts
her thesis. Armstrong can’t seem to grasp the point that if the
Axial Age hasn’t
produced its results yet we could hardly, after such a time elapsed, …
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Email
on Armstrong’s book
5 Apr 2006 by nemo
Karen Armstrong’s The Great Transformation,
dealing with the Axial Age, just
published, has brought the public’s attention to the remarkable
phenomenon first
described by Karl Jaspers, but first discovered in the nineteenth
century. …
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Armstrong’s
Religious Revolution
13 Dec 2005 by nemo
Meanwhile, as to Armstong’s Axial Age nonsense.
Armstrong’s model of the Axial
Age has degenerated into incoherence with the idea of a ‘Second
Axial Age’, which
was supposed to be the rise of the modern, but is now some postmodern
New …
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Armstrong,
Axial Age, Aljazeera
31 Jan 2006 by nemo
Karen Armstrong on Aljazeera.net announces her
new book on Axial Age. Life is
not fair, someone who has made a complete bollocks of the question of
the Axial
Age writes a book that will sell due to her reputation. …
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Armstrong,
Darwin, Eugenie Scott
15 Apr 2006 by nemo
It is impossible to grasp the issues of the Axial Age
without bringing in the
issues of evolution, a point requiring some study. But obviously that is
taboo,
and one of the apparent strategies of Armstrong’s silly book is
to efface …
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Armstrong
discredits ‘Axial Age’
13 Mar 2006 by nemo
I have been waiting with a question mark in mind for the
appearance of Karen
Armstrong’s book on the Axial Age, The Great
Transformation, reviewed here at
the Financial Times (not yet available in the US). Based on a previous
account in …
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Karen
Armstrong on Axial Age
20 Nov 2005 by nemo
What is Enlightenment? magazine, issue 31, has an
article on Karen Armstrong
and the supposed ‘Second Axial Age’. Text is listed below,
after my commentary.
This page updates a post from a few days ago, and is also available at …
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Second Axial
again
3 Apr 2006 by nemo
Because of the parallels with the Axial Age, Armstrong
believes, it’s highly
possible that the world is at another religious turning point. “In
every single
case, the catalyst of major religious change was revulsion from warfare
and …
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Gearing
up for the Armstrong mess
2 Mar 2006 by nemo
I have been waiting for Karen Armstrong’s new
book The Great Transformation on the
Axial Age. Based on her previous remarks in earlier books, with a
short version
in The History of Myth, the result is going to make a complete mess of …
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Armstrong’s
crypto-fundamentalism?
2 Mar 2006 by nemo
We are presently in the Second Axial Age
according to religious scholar, Karen
Armstrong. In her book, The Battle for God, Armstrong says
the Second Axial Age
began in the early 20th century– a time when “people were trying to
find new …
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Axial/Armstrong
links
3 Apr 2006 by nemo
I have collected together the links on this blog on the Axial
Age/Karen Armstrong
question.
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Armstrong
and Dalai Lama
17 Apr 2006 by nemo
Sorry to keep harping on Armstrong, but she has
wrecked the question of the Axial
Age. Karl Jaspers’ book isn’t even in print. My careful
periodization structure
to examine and approach its complex study, because it challenges Darwin,
…
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No
Second Axial Age
31 Jan 2006 by nemo
I got an email from someone who had read an amazon
review of mine on Armstrong’s
Battle For God. I had forgotten that I had reviewed it, but went to
look, see below.
Armstrong’s idea of a second Axial Age doesn’t quite
add up, …
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Axial
Age and Eonic Model
15 Apr 2006 by nemo
A review of Armstrong’s The Great
Transformation almost gets the point, and sees
where she has gone wrong by smearing out the Axial data backwards
and forwards.
Then the reviewer derails with some speculations about the Ice Age.
…
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Axial
Synchronism
18 Apr 2006 by nemo
Armstrong in The Great Transformation completely
distorts the issue of the …
Armstrong gets confused by the claims now that Zoroaster is much
earlier and that
Lao … Then it becomes clear that the question of the Axial
Age is that of …
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More
‘Second Axial Age’ confusion
16 Feb 2006 by nemo
In another version, Karen Armstrong has proposed
a second Axial Age as some
kind of postmodern restoration of religion. It is all confusion. There
is no
second ‘Axial Age’, unless by that we mean the rise of
modernity itself. …
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Voodoo
Scholarship
26 Nov 2005 by nemo
What is Enlightenment? magazine, issue 31, has an
article on Karen Armstrong and
the supposed ‘Second Axial Age’. See post from a few days
ago: Armstrong on Axial
Age. The issue of the magazine in question raises a sore point:
these …
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More
on Armstrong’s Axial Age
22 Nov 2005 by nemo
Googling Karen Armstrong’s views on a so-called
‘Second Axial Age’ I find a number
of seminars on the subject, with this from a conference of the Jesus
Seminar.
Who should we find present here but Eugenie Scott! Hey wait a minute! …
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Voodoo
Scholarship
30 Nov 2005 by nemo
What is Enlightenment? magazine, issue 31, has an
article on Karen Armstrong and
the supposed ‘Second Axial Age’. See post from a few days
ago: Armstrong on Axial
Age. The context of the magazine in question raises a
controversial point …
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Dennett’s
book is out
2 Feb 2006 by nemo
I am not ready to comment on Dennett’s text yet,
although I forewarned in an
earlier post that I was ’sharpening my claws’, also for Karen Armstrong’s
new
book on Axial Age. Actually, I expressed the hope of being
pleasantly surprised …
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Armstrong
on Myth
11 Dec 2005 by nemo
The periodization of the book focuses on the data of the
Axial Age, which the
author threatens to turn into another myth. Armstrong’s
treatment of this subject
has made it into a proxy for the onset of the world reiligions, …
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Second Axial
Age??
16 Nov 2005 by nemo
What is Enlightenment? magazine, issue 31, has an
article on Karen Armstrong and
the supposed ‘Second Axial Age’. Unfortunately it is not
online. The use of the
term ‘Axial Age’ has suffered confusion, and has degenerated
in some …
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