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The dynamics of the Axial Age can be confusing until we sit down and examine the periodization involved, especially in the case of Archaic/Classical Greece. There we are fortunate because the Mycenaean world falls apart, leaving an artificial discontinuity. We things pick up again we know that we are dealing with an Axial phenomenon. Archaic Greece There has been a tendency to consider the Axial period as connected with religion, but the Greek case shows us that there is a continuum between all categories from philosophy to science, and religion. Further, we can see that the idea of the 'secular' is born in Greece in parallel with the idea of the sacred, in history. The question of democracy, with its intimations of abtract freedom is as much a metaphysical/religious question as theism. The Discrete Freedom Sequence The spectacular birth of Greek democracy is clearly an Axial parallel effect. |
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