From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution: John Stuart-Glennie, Karl Jaspers, and a New Understanding of the Idea

(Palgrave Pivot) Around 600 B.C.E., the great world religions, philosophy, and a variety of civilizations began to emerge. In developing a theory of this period, Karl Jaspers called it the Axial Age, while years earlier John Stuart-Glennie termed it the Moral Revolution. Now, Halton rewrites the history of these theories and proposes a new context for understanding this phenomenon. Halton is a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.