First, thanks for the knowledge. This is an article I’ll archive.

According to Karen Armstrong, Zoroaster and Greek rationalism are also 'axial'. The former came earlier, but the latter was part of what Jaspers called the Axial Age.

Generally, civilization, as a material and social development, had left behind traditional modes for governing governance in the much simpler, non-civilized societies. People ‘revealed’ new kinds of spirituality for governing the governance of that new social and material environment (including ethics by which people could govern themselves). In that sense, “axial” refers to the transition to ‘civilized’ spiritualities.

I think we are in a similar place today in this world. We are at the end of the Age of Ideology, which replaced the Age of Civilized Spiritualities for governing the governance of society.

To my mind, we must replace ideology with a strictly rational ethic for governing the governance of society. To that end, there is "Mutual Respect: the only ethic for justly governing society" (here in Medium).