Paul Marshall completed his doctoral thesis at UCL, Institute of Education, UK. His research interests include integrative metatheory, human nature and human flourishing.

Introduction

Part I: Axiality in pre-modernity

1. The Axial Age: First Flowering of a New Vision

2. Axial Greece: Sowing the Seeds of Four Biases

3. Interregnum: Axiality between the Axial Age and Modernity

Part II: Modernity and the Four Biases

4. Modernity: New Shift in Consciousness and Consolidation of the Biases

5. Challenging the Biases: Undermining the Old Vision

6. Remedying the Biases: Paving the Way for a New Vision

Part III: Contours of a New Axial Vision

7. Contours I: A New Axial Cosmovision (or 'Creation Story')

8. Contours II: A New Axial Cognition and Ethics

9. Contours III: A New Axial Spirituality and Praxis

10. Conclusion

This book sketches the contours of a vision that moves beyond the dominant paradigm or worldview that underlies and governs modernity (and postmodernity).