MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Axial Age, Euripides

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

None of these countries were in contact with each other but they were teaching similar beliefs/ values about humanity. Jaspers convergence of a lot of the values that were espousing. Dangers of an ego that goes out of hand. Historical reasoning: all live in a place where new challenges are occurring. More conflicts and tensions bc of more concentration within the cities. Old ways of solving conflict was not sufficing so it was necessary to explore new ways to solve conflicts. Karen haskfa need to find a spiritual technology of how people should treat each other. When we forget that every human life is sacred and valuable in some way, that"s when chaos begins. Search for that lost heart: what it means to be human.