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PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS APPLICATION FRAMEWORK
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SECTION 1A: THE SPRING AND AUTUMN + WARRING STATE PERIOD - [770 BCE – 221 BCE]
A period of massive social, political, and religious upheaval across several civilizations. Empires and city-states emerged, traditional mythic explanations declined, and people sought new moral and metaphysical frameworks. The “Axial Age” marks when philosophy shifted from myth to moral reason, creating enduring civilizational value systems.
SECTION 1B: CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHY - [470 BCE – 200 BCE]
A period of massive social, political, and religious upheaval across several civilizations. Empires and city-states emerged, traditional mythic explanations declined, and people sought new moral and metaphysical frameworks. The “Axial Age” marks when philosophy shifted from myth to moral reason, creating enduring civilizational value systems.
SECTION 1C: BEGINNING OF BUDDIHSM - [563 BCE - RELIGION]
A period of massive social, political, and religious upheaval across several civilizations. Empires and city-states emerged, traditional mythic explanations declined, and people sought new moral and metaphysical frameworks. The “Axial Age” marks when philosophy shifted from myth to moral reason, creating enduring civilizational value systems.
SECTION 2: HELLENISTIC PRACTICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHIES [200 BCE – 600 CE]
The collapse of classical empires (Greek city-states, Roman Republic, Mauryan Empire) and rise of world religions—Christianity, Islam, and new Buddhist schools.
SECTION 3: MEDIEVAL SCHOLASTIC ERA [800 CE – 1500 CE]
After the fall of Rome, Europe experienced religious consolidation under Christianity. China stabilized under imperial Confucianism.
SECTION 4: RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN PERIOD [1500 CE – 1700 CE]
Collapse of medieval feudalism, rise of science, reformation, and early capitalism. Exploration and printing spread new ideas. Birth of modern philosophy—reason replaces tradition; science replaces theology.
SECTION 5: ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION [1700 CE – 1800 CE]
Political revolutions (American, French), growth of science, decline of monarchy and church authority. Philosophy becomes the intellectual foundation for modern democracy, science, and capitalism.
SECTION 6: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT [1800 CE - 1900 CE]
Mass industrialization, urbanization, social upheaval, and class struggle. Reaction against Enlightenment optimism. Philosophy becomes historical, social, and psychological—seeking meaning in modern alienation.
SECTION 7: MODERN PHILOSOPHY [1900 CE - 2000 CE]
Mass industrialization, urbanization, social upheaval, and class struggle. Reaction against Enlightenment optimism. Philosophy becomes historical, social, and psychological—seeking meaning in modern alienation.