The Age of the Sages Rebecca Y. Kim and Warwick Anderson

and Warwick Anderson

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The Age of the Sages Rebecca Y. Kim and Warwick AndersonThe years 800 200 BCE comprise one of the most creative and influential eras in world history. Karl Jaspers termed this epoch "the Axial Age," to indicate its pivotal importance in the evolution of human thought. The ferment of religious and philosophical activity centered in four distinct regions of civilization: East Asia, South Asia, West Asia, and the Northeastern Mediterranean. Each of these areas witnessed the emergence of several imaginative