4.5 The Great Freedom Sutra
Last modified 04/24/2008
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We should conclude by reiterating the way in which the modern
transformation reproduces its Axial effect almost in disguise by looking at the
symmetry of the original Axial period. The modern transition reamplifies the
birth of the idea of freedom that had been born in Classical Greece, and this in
parallel to the Indian and Judaic conceptions of self, and divinity. If we
examine the legacy of Kantian critique of metaphysics we see that its focus is
on the dialectic dilemmas of just these three core concepts, and it is as if the
Axial Age in its biffurcations of realization had divided into three streams in
just this triplicity. Thus we could conceive of a strategy to reconcile the
false conflict of secularism and religion (even as we affirm the secular in a
more comprehensive meaning) by seeing that the emergence of modern freedom is
simply a prodigious new upsurge of the Axial type, its music refretted in a new
key appropriate to the change in direction of world history as its accelerates
to a new future beyond the gifts of time seen in the classic Axial period.
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