The Meaning of Life and the Measure of Civilizations Barry Smith In what respects is Western civilization superior or inferior to its rivals? In raising this question we are addressing a particularly strong form of the problem of relativism. For in order to compare civilizations one with another we would need to be in possession of a framework that is neutral and objective, a framework based on...

During more than three million years, the substance civilization of human society went through the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Steel and Cement Age, and the Silicon Age. At the beginning of the new century, the human society has entered into the Nanomaterials Age, which indicates that a completely new substance civilization of human society has started. This paper analyses and ...

A current and major difficulty in civilizational studies is how to deal with the concepts of “civilization” and culture.” As these terms are simultaneously distinct and overlap, arose through a historical process that was key to modernity and are also at the root of a variety of disciplinary connections, they constitute a perfect case of semantic entanglement. Confusion has resulted from this e...

Russian Culture and Civilization Class 1 What is Culture? Western vs. Russian Approaches to Culture: Observers and Participants Russia has inspired centuries of commentary and analysis by Western travelers and observers; the academic study of Russia began in the late 19th century. Russia was seen as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Western researchers are trying to "crack the c...

Islamic Art is the art of civilization based on Islamic religion. Moreover, it not only concerned with particular region or particular people rather it is a combination of different civilizations and historical circumstances as painted with Islamic weltanschauung. The Arab civilization is probably more important. Although the Arabs have little art and even then, they developed Islamic art with ...

this study examined historical and religious characters and events emanating myth of phoenix manifesting renewal and resurrection after death and destruction in adonis’s poetries. these concepts is symbols of realities in arabic societies. adonis described the society in vortex of leeway, inaction and absolute death. considering phoenix as a symbol of revolutionary human, adonis tried to back t...

In the present study, the dignity of science and technology in modern civilizations is evaluated as the vital status of the ontological and of "Being" and "Not-Being" type, while emphasizing that the problem description in religious models of new civilization cannot be reduced to the acquisition of modern and strategic science and technologies; Accordingly, this article, while reviewing and cri...