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The Great Transformation The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

Paperback • 2007 • English

The Great Transformation The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

By Karen Armstrong

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"The centuries between 800 and 300 bc saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence was second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this five hundred- year span? And why do they have such similar ideas about humanity? In The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong examines this phenomenal period and the connections between this dis...Show more

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9781843540564

Publisher

Atlantic

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

The Great Transformation The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

Format

Paperback

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