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May 25, 2009 · Around that axis is an era—from about 800 BCE to 200 BCE—designated as the "Axial Age" or " the Great Transformation. People who lived on the early side of the axis, some scholars believe ...
Oct 19, 2012 · Abstract. Hysteria is undoubtedly the first mental disorder attributable to women, accurately described in the second millennium BC, and until Freud considered an exclusively female disease. Over 4000 years of history, this disease was considered from two perspectives: scientific and demonological.
- Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Rapetti, Mauro Giovanni Carta, Bianca Fadda
- 2012
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The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 BC to 1001 BC. In the Ancient Near East, it marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age . The Ancient Near Eastern cultures are well within the historical era: The first half of the millennium is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops.
He places the origin of consciousness around the 2nd millennium BCE and suggests that the transition from the bicameral mind to consciousness was triggered by the breakdown of the bicameral system. The bicameral mind, he explains, was characterized by individuals experiencing auditory hallucinations as commands from gods, guiding their actions.
- Julian Jaynes
- 512 (English edition)
- 1976
- 1976
To answer this question, I introduce the theories of Julian Jaynes who argued that a major transition in mentalité—from a pre-conscious cognition in which individuals hallucinated divine voices (that functioned as volition) to a psychology of conscious interiority transpired in the latter part of the second millennium BCE.
- Alexandre Hyafil, Pascal Boyer
Dec 6, 2021 · The second definition is “circumstances; facts of a case”; examples of compounds under this meaning include truth, situation, reason, origin, real facts.
Mar 24, 2013 · The concept of the axial age, initially proposed by the philosopher Karl Jaspers to refer to a period in the first millennium BCE that saw the rise of major religious and philosophical figures and ideas throughout Eurasia, has gained an established position in a number of fields, including historical sociology, cultural sociology, and the sociology of religion. We explore whether the notion of ...
