The European Idea Of Progress Supersedes The Axial Age: Part I
- Ricardo Duchesne, Council of European Canadians, May 25, 2019
OOnly European peoples have made history, discovered the idea of time, and this is why the idea of progress is uniquely European, because only European history has been characterized by progress, and there can be no conception of historical time and no history without progression, without man becoming conscious of his role in the making of history and the realization that only the mind can be the adjudicator of the truth. The peoples of the Axial Age (800-200 BC), the Israelites, the Indians, the Chinese, and possibly the Persians, are the only ones who experienced some history, achieved some developments, and engendered the first inklings of historical consciousness; but only Europeans, starting with the ancient Greeks, would continue to evolve culturally beyond the Axial Age.
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