英和和英

語源

Calque of German Achsenzeit.

固有名詞

Axial Age

1. (history) The age from about the 8th to the 3rd century BCE, during which broad changes in religious and philosophical thought occurred in a variety of locations.

   Synonym: Axis Age

   • 1986, Hermann Kulke, “The Historical Background of India's Axial Age”, in Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, editor, The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 392:

     This rather speculative explanation of a most important characteristic feature of Axial Age civilizations might be questioned. But it remains a fact that these tensions and the social Freiraum existed in all these societies.

   • 1991, Mark J. Boda, Daniel K. Falk, Rodney Alan Werline, editors, Early Judaism and Its Literature (Seeking the Favor of God […] ), BRILL, →ISBN, page 102:

     According to the philosopher Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age encompassed 800-200 B.C.E., with a center at approximately 500. Jaspers used the epithet "Axial" because this epoch heralded fundamental and revolutionary changes in human social, religious, and intellectual history.

   • 2018, Stephen K. Sanderson, Religious Evolution and the Axial Age, Bloomsbury Publishing (Bloomsbury Academic), →ISBN, page 203:

     What then of the theory's relevance to the Axial Age? Because Norenzayan is interested in pre-Axial Age gods as well as those of the Axial Age, this makes the theory of limited use in explaining the kinds of gods that arose during the Axial Age.