SYLLABUS for FIRST AXIAL AGE  

Introduction 

The Axial Peoples 

  Avesta Aryans - Sanskrit Aryans - Chinese -

   Israelites - Greeks - Chinese - Indians

Ch 3 KENOSIS - (surrender - renouncing - emptying)

  Israel - Greece - China - India

Ch 4 KNOWLEDGE - (of God/divine) 

  India           

   Greeks - Hesiod - Hoplites

   Chinese

  Israelites - Reflections

Ch 5 SUFFERING - (place of) 

  Israel - Jeremiah - Ezekiel - P J E D

  Greece 

  India 

  China - Confucius 

Ch 6 EMPATHY - (Axial hallmark)

  China

  Judaism - Is II - 'Return' 

  Athens - Heraclitus - Xenophonus -

          Parmenides - Tragedies

  India - Makkhla Gosala-Mahavira                                      

Ch 7 CONCERN FOR EVERYONE  

  Israel - Ezra - Nehemiah       

  Greece - Democritus - Anaxagorus 

          Sophists - Protagoras - Socrates 

  China - Mozi 

  India - Buddha 

Ch 8 ALL IS ONE - (no dualism) 

  China - Zuangzi - Mencius

  India - Mahabharata 

  Greece - Plato - Aristotle 

Ch 9 EMPIRE - (need not to be obstructive) 

  China - Daodejing - Loazi

  Zoroastrians 

  Israelites  

  Greece - Epicurius - Stoics - Sceptics

  India - Upanishads - Bagavad Gita                    

Ch 10 THE WAY FORWARD

  China 

  India 

  Jews - Golden Rule - Jesus - Paul - Gospels

  Mohammad 

Conclusions 

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