The Meaning Of Existentialism Philosophy In The Theory Of Axial Age

The Western historical philosophy was criticized repeatedly and its study came out at half of the twentieth century. After the two World Wars, the roily situation of society and international urged the historians to understand and analyze the new characteristics of history of mankind. The Germanic philosopher Karl Jaspers put forward the famous theory of"Axial Age"according to his unique perspective. He considered the development of human history based on the development and changes of "Axial Age", which shared by the different regions. At the same time, Contacting with the reality, he predicted the advent of the next phase of the axis. Unlike other scholars, Jaspers'"Axial Age"is based on the existentialism philosophy, which possessed the characteristics of opposing the traditional speculative philosophy. Under the guidance of the new philosophy theory, the thinking of Jaspers'historical philosophy compared with the traditional view of western philosophy of history had a series of new changes. It is different from the traditional philosophy so that the method of study and explore will also be different from the past. On the one hand, "person" by the uncertainty led his philosophy embodies the characteristics of the development and changes; On the other hand, researching the subject of history in accordance with researching people, this makes Jaspers'philosophy and reality linked more closely. In fact the proposition of Jaspers'philosophy attempted to establish the World Philosophy. Jaspers'view of history is the reality basis which establishes the dynamic logical structure. "Progress in respiratory mode" of human history in the theory of"Axial Age"reflected Jaspers'existentialism philosophy in the real world. In Jaspers'opinion, Survival refers to people's unconditional and absolute core, it also the understanding for the individual in the freedom. The thought for the survival endued an unlimited "open." to Jaspers'historical philosophy. Jaspers had a perfect understanding of the connection between the"realization of survival"and"axial age"theory in his academic thinking. He mixed the history with philosophy as a whole to establish a set of academic theories in the reality.Furthermore, studying Jaspers, we can clearly investigate ideological changes in the field of historical philosophy at that time and the actual phenomenon of the old and new disputes. More comprehensive understanding of the idea of Jaspers'philosophy of history, it is also beneficial for our understanding and analyzing the representation of re-reflection theory for the human history, which is the common phenomenon in the field of history at half of the twentieth century.