Pre-Axial-Age Social Order

Characteristics

Imperium Press:

"The Pre-Axial (folkish) social order is all of the following:

ETHNIC — tribal, bounded morality

CORPORATIST — no individual, only roles

SOIL-BOUND — gods tied to particular places

ORTHOPRAXIC — ritual > belief

TABOO-BASED — specific situational commands, no universals

WORLDLY — reward and punishment in this life

CYCLICAL — time is repetitive, eternal return."

(https://imperiumpress.substack.com/p/the-death-of-literacy-and-the-archaic)

By contrast:

"The main Axial acquisitions are:

PROPOSITIONALITY — universal moral claims, doctrine

ABSTRACTION — philosophy, metaphysics, transcendence

THEOLOGICAL REDUCTIVISM — monotheism, moral dualism

ESCHATOLOGY — linear time, judgement, salvation

THE INDIVIDUAL — advent of conscience."

More information

• The Archaic Revival

• The Axial Age