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George W Bush’s approach was to view India as the “anti-China,” and thereby to balance the “biggest democracy in the world” against the “oldest civilization in the world.”
The vastness of Indian nationality, with its plethora of cultures, ethnicities, and religions, has not immunized it against ethnic tensions, but it has made India more a seat for a major world civilization than a mere nation-state.
In other words, modern civilization might be completely destroyed.”
In November 1961, the UN General Assembly declared that “any state using nuclear and thermonuclear weapons is to be considered as violating the Charter of the United Nations, as acting contrary to the laws of humanity, and as committing a crime against mankind and civilization.”
But converting forests to agriculture led to cities and civilization.
The Continuing Mystery of Life’s Building BlocksGARRISON, NEW YORK – Imagine for a moment that you have come across a trove of marvelous devices left by an ancient civilization.
Trump’s election prompted hand-wringing from commentators who fear that his potential rejection of the Paris climate agreement could “doom civilization.”
In fact, now, after his death, he is well on the way to being lionized as someone who foresaw many current problems, and not only at home: while still President, he repeatedly called attention to the self-destructive forces of industrial civilization and global capitalism.
Indian nationalism has therefore always been the nationalism of an idea – the idea of one land embracing many, a land emerging from an ancient civilization, united by a shared history and sustained by a pluralist political system.
Moreover, after all that has happened in the past six months, Central Europeans can no longer look up to old countries representing the moral values of Western civilization.
A report published in May 2010 by the Council of Europe, entitled Islam, Islamism, and Islamophobia in Europe, recognized that Europe has been home to Muslims for many centuries, and acknowledged the contribution of Islamic civilization to European culture.
“There will soon be more mosques than churches,” he says, if true Europeans don’t have the guts to stand up and save Western civilization.
But it did not shift the center of gravity of Russian civilization, which remained collective and slavophile, not individualistic and Western.
That multimedia spectacular did far more than trace China’s 5,000-year history; it was a statement that China is a major civilization that demands and deserves its rightful place in the global hierarchy.
The United States should be less dismissive of Russia’s sensibilities as an important power and a major civilization, and Russia’s legitimate security interests concerning its borders with NATO countries must be addressed, not least to keep Ukraine out of a rival military alliance.
Consider the mission entrusted to Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, the great Egyptian scholar sent to Europe by Mohammed Ali in 1826 to learn about Western civilization and to try to forge an understanding between it and Islam.
The importance of this should be abundantly clear to Westerners, whose modern civilization grew out of religious dissent that was initially met by the violence of the Inquisition and the Counter-Reformation.
The nub of the problem is that contemporary European civilization is secular, whereas Muslim civilization is religious.
I firmly believe that the new technology age, if shaped in a responsive and responsible way, could catalyze a new cultural renaissance that will create the sense that we are part of something much larger than ourselves – a true global civilization.
As a European editor wrote apropos the flow of scientists from Europe to America: "What's most sad is that Europeans still believe that their society represents the epitome of civilization, while the US is on its way to downfall.
It should use the fact that the legitimacy of Russia’s current regime inside the country is based, to a large extent, on the perception that it is a regime that strives to bring Russia back into European civilization.
“What we seek,” he continued, “is what the founders of American civilization were also pursuing four centuries ago.
This is why we sense an intellectual affinity with the essence of American civilization.”
So John Paul II is no enthusiast of modern Western civilization, with its divorce from the world of values, and he contrasts with it the moral sensitivity of societies with fresh memories of decades of dictatorship.
Like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Pope tends to believe that it was above all in resistance to totalitarianism that man could become truly free and preserve the fundamental values of civilization.
It is therefore an alliance designed to protect not only national sovereignty or geopolitical interests, but to protect certain kinds of human culture and civilization.
It is, after all, a country that can be described as a civilization, and its trajectory has been far more impressive than that of any North Korean rocket.
The Revolt Of The StatesBUENOS AIRES: Ceaseless change seems to be at the heart of today’s global civilization.
If warming exceeds 1.5ºC or 2ºC later this century – temperatures never experienced in the entire 10,000-year history of human civilization – the world will become vastly more dangerous.
In most if not all non-Western civilizations, pride and self love exclude self-criticism or at least the criticism of one’s civilization as such.
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