INTERACTION OF CIVILIZATIONS: WESTERN FORECASTS AND CHINESE REALITY
Keywords: population forecast, interaction of civilizations, globalization, fuel and energy resources, international security A. V. Akimov's article is undoubtedly necessary and timely. In itself, it is not controversial, since it consists of completely reliable facts, which as such are difficult to dispute, and a collection of conjectural scenarios without choosing and justifying any one, which could be the subject of verification or falsification. But it certainly explicitly and implicitly points out deep problems and encourages far-reaching discussion statements. Reacting to this correctly provocative text, I would first like to define the basic concepts and methodological principles reflected in the title itself. "Civilization" is a quantitative or qualitative concept: is civility, which has different levels and gradations, a general characteristic of all of humanity, or is it a unique integrity that is fundamentally different from any other civilization and thus divides people sometimes to the point of deadly antagonism? The famous "clash of civilizations" is a euphemism for the well-known struggle of culture with barbarism since ancient times, or is it a recognition of the real incompatibility of different "cultural genotypes" in one "civilizational body"? Finally, are "civilization" and "culture" synonymous in this discussion (as in the English - and French-speaking world) or not, and even terminologically different to the point of opposite (as in the German and Russian lexicon)? Offering an "applied" definition of "civilization", A.V. Akimov, on the one hand, referred to S. Huntington, who follows the English-language tradition, and on the other hand, noted its inherent "life cycle ... going from birth to growth, flourishing, and then to decay", which fully corresponds to O. Spengler's theory imbued with the German spirit, a fundamental distinction between civilization and culture. In advance and in a working order, i.e. distracting from a lot of problematic ... Read more
____________________

This publication was posted on Libmonster in another country. The article seemed interesting to our editor.

Full version: https://biblio.vn/m/articles/view/INTERACTION-OF-CIVILIZATIONS-WESTERN-FORECASTS-AND-CHINESE-REALITY
China Online · 210 days ago 0 24
Professional Authors' Comments:
Order by: 
Per page: 
 
  • There are no comments yet
Library guests comments




Actions
Rate
0 votes
Publisher
China Online
Beijing, China
17.07.2024 (210 days ago)
Link
Permanent link to this publication:

https://elibrary.org.cn/blogs/entry/INTERACTION-OF-CIVILIZATIONS-WESTERN-FORECASTS-AND-CHINESE-REALITY


© elibrary.org.cn
 
Library Partners

ELIBRARY.ORG.CN - China Digital Library

Create your author's collection of articles, books, author's works, biographies, photographic documents, files. Save forever your author's legacy in digital form. Click here to register as an author.
INTERACTION OF CIVILIZATIONS: WESTERN FORECASTS AND CHINESE REALITY
 

Editorial Contacts
Chat for Authors: CN LIVE: We are in social networks:

About · News · For Advertisers

China Digital Library ® All rights reserved.
2023-2025, ELIBRARY.ORG.CN is a part of Libmonster, international library network (open map)
Preserving the Chinese heritage


LIBMONSTER NETWORK ONE WORLD - ONE LIBRARY

US-Great Britain Sweden Serbia
Russia Belarus Ukraine Kazakhstan Moldova Tajikistan Estonia Russia-2 Belarus-2

Create and store your author's collection at Libmonster: articles, books, studies. Libmonster will spread your heritage all over the world (through a network of affiliates, partner libraries, search engines, social networks). You will be able to share a link to your profile with colleagues, students, readers and other interested parties, in order to acquaint them with your copyright heritage. Once you register, you have more than 100 tools at your disposal to build your own author collection. It's free: it was, it is, and it always will be.

Download app for Android