Axial (Spiritual Age) 6 th -4 th century BCE Influential Thinkers Buddha Mahavira Confucius Laozi ? Socrates Aristotle Plato & other Greeks New Religions
Early Buddhism I.Late Vedic India & Spiritual Age II.Beliefs of Buddhism III. Practices of early Buddhism IDs: Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), d. 483bce,
Early Buddhism
Greek Philosophy I.Classical Age in Greece, 490-323 BCE II.Classical Greek Values III.Greek Philosophy IDs: polis, Pericles, hoplite phalanx, rationalism.
Greek Philosophy