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- The Age of the Sages: The Axial Age in Asia and the Near East
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
By setting traditions and thinkers such as Zoroaster, Gautama Buddha, and Confucius and others side by side, we are able to see more clearly the questions with which they struggled, their similarities and differences, and how their ideas have influenced religious thought down to our day.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. xv-xvi
- Part I. West Asia
- pp. 7-8
- 1. The Noble Ones
- pp. 9-20
- 2. The Life of Zoroaster
- pp. 21-26
- 3. Zoroaster’s Legacy
- pp. 27-36
- Part II. South Asia
- pp. 37-38
- 4. South Asia before the Axial Age
- pp. 39-48
- 5. The Start of the Indian Axial Age
- pp. 49-58
- 6. Death and Rebirth
- pp. 59-66
- 7. The Quest for Liberation
- pp. 67-74
- 8. The Vedantic Solution
- pp. 75-84
- 9. The One and the Many
- pp. 85-96
- 10. The Life of Siddhattha Gotama
- pp. 97-106
- 11. “I Am Awake”
- pp. 107-114
- 12. Why We Suffer
- pp. 115-122
- 13. The Noble Path
- pp. 123-132
- 14. From Buddha to Buddhism
- pp. 133-142
- 15. Jainism
- pp. 143-152
- Part III. East Asia
- pp. 153-154
- 16. East Asia before the Axial Age
- pp. 155-164
- 17. The World of Confucius
- pp. 165-174
- 18. The Foundations of Confucianism
- pp. 175-184
- 19. The Cultivation of Virtue
- pp. 185-192
- 21. The Daodejing
- pp. 203-212
- 22. Daoist Politics and Mysticism
- pp. 213-222
- Conclusion: Reflections on the Axial Age
- pp. 223-232
- Bibliography
- pp. 253-260
- Back Cover
- p. 294
Additional Information
ISBN
9781451438611
Related ISBN(s)
9780800699215
MARC Record
OCLC
868834858
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-17
Language
English
Open Access
No