Religion and Rationality, Poetry and Philosophy： In Search of the ＂Axial Breakthrough＂ in Ancient Greece
Religion and Rationality, Poetry and Philosophy： In Search of the ＂Axial Breakthrough＂ in Ancient Greece作者机构：King's College London London UK
出 版 物：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2016年第9卷第4期
页 面：543-554页
学科分类：01[哲学] 0101[哲学-哲学] 06[历史学] 060207[历史学-专门史] 010107[哲学-宗教学] 0602[历史学-中国史]
主 题：Axial Age Religion Poetry Presocratic Mystery Greece Herodotus - Parmenides
摘 要：Axial age theory suggests that a major transformation of thought occurred across several civilisations, including ancient Greece, in the period 800-200 BCE. This paper questions whether any such transformation can be identified in ancient Greece. It focuses on texts associated with ＂mystery religions＂ and the works of Presocratic philosophers as potential evidence for transformation. It demonstrates that there was a continuity of thought throughout the period, and that ＂rationality＂ was never seen to be in conflict with ＂traditional religious ideas＂.
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