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Which book did Karl Jaspers write about the origins and goals of world history?
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Karl Jaspers, 1968.
The book written by Karl Jaspers concerning the origins and goals of world history is titled Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (1949; The Origin and Goal of History, 1953).1
In this work, Jaspers identifies the "axial period" (spanning from 800 to 200 BCE) as the central point of history, during which the fundamental intellectual, philosophical, and religious systems that underpin modern civilization emerged.12