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Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia w „Zderzeniu cywilizacji…” Samuela P. Huntingtona. Komentarze z perspektywy ćwierćwiecza

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Dębicki M.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2020

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vol. 64

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issue 3

143-167

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The article attempts to relate one of the theses of Samuel P. Huntington’s famous The Clash of Civilizations to the socio-political reality of contemporary East Central Europe. The question is to what extent the so-called civilizational fault line – the line separating the zones of western and eastern Christianity – explains the socio-political processes taking place in this part of the continent, on either side of the line. Citing a number of conditions – in Lithuania in the north to Greece in the south – the author argues that Huntington’s metaphor has limited explanatory value. He draws particular attention to the shifts that have occurred in the course of the fault line since the mid-1990s (when Huntington’s book was published), the heterogeneity of socio-political relations on either side, and the civilizational borderland created around it.

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Paradygmat cywilizacyjny Samuela P. Huntingtona. Droga do zrozumienia współczesnych problemów Zachodu?

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Bednarczyk G.

Kultura i Wartości

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2017

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issue 21

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Der Aufsatz ist eine methodologische Analyse des Zivilisationsparadigmas nach Samuel P. Huntington. Den Boden für die Überlegungen bilden statistische Forschungen, die die demographische Situation der Länder des westlichen Zivilisationskreises sowie der Länder der islamischen Welt betreffen. Es werden sowohl die Forschungen berücksichtigt, auf die Huntington Mitte der 1990er Jahre Bezug genommen hat, als auch jene, die gegenwärtige Lage schildern. Die These, deren Richtigkeit der amerikanische Wissenschaftler erklärt und mit der der Verfasser des Textes übereinstimmt, besagt, dass die wirkende Kraft der epochalen historischen Ereignisse junge und schnell wachsende Bevölkerungen sind.

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The article represents a methodological analysis of the civilization paradigm as perceived by Samuel Huntington. The analysis is based on statistical studies of the demographic situation in countries identified with the western civilization and those of the Islamic world. The research dwells on studies referred to by Huntington himself in the mid-nineties as well as on findings dealing with present-day realities. The thesis considered right and endorsed by the American scholar is that young and fast-growing populations constitute the driving force of breakthrough historic developments.

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Niniejszy tekst to metodologiczna analiza paradygmatu cywilizacyjnego w ujęciu Samuela Huntingtona. Grunt dla rozważań stanowią badania statystyczne dotyczące sytuacji demograficznej państw utożsamianych z zachodnim kręgiem cywilizacyjnym oraz tych zaliczanych do świata Islamu. Badania, o których mowa, to zarówno te, na które w połowie lat dziewięćdziesiątych powoływał się sam Huntington, jak i te, które opisują współczesne realia. Teza, za której słusznością opowiada się amerykański uczony i dla której aprobatę wyraża autor tekstu mówi, że siłą sprawczą przełomowych wydarzeń historycznych są młode i szybko rosnące populacje.

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On the Very Idea of Civilisation

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O’Sullivan L.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2021

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issue 2

307-321

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The concept of civilisation is a controversial one because it is unavoidably normative in its implications. Its historical associations with the effort of Western imperialism to impose substantive conditions of life have made it difficult for contemporary liberalism to find a definition of “civilization” that can be reconciled with progressive discourse that seeks to avoid exclusions of various kinds. But because we lack a way of identifying what is peculiar to the relationship of civilisation that avoids the problem of domination, it has tended to be conflated with other ideas. Taking Samuel Huntington’s idea of a “Clash of Civilisations” as a starting point, this article argues that we suffer from a widespread confusion of civilisation with “culture,” and that we also confuse it with other ideas including modernity and technological development. Drawing on Thomas Hobbes, the essay proposes an alternative definition of civilisation as the existence of limits on how we may treat others.

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Civilization in The Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Skrzydlewski P.

Studia Gilsoniana

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2018

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vol. 7

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issue 4

665-687

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The author considers the problem of civilization. He defines civilization as a determinate form of man’s group life, or man’s culture in its social dimension. According to the author, a plurality of civilizations is generally accepted; in civilization, one can see the foundations for the functioning of law, politics, social life, and family life; civilization also plays an essential role in the religious life of man, just as religion plays a role in civilization. The author discusses the following topics: the biological theory of civilization, the historical theory of civilization, the sociological theory of civilization, the political-science theory of civilization, the civilization of death and the civilization of love, and the historical-philosophical theory of civilization.

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Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia w „Zderzeniu cywilizacji…” Samuela P. Huntingtona. Komentarze z perspektywy ćwierćwiecza

Paradygmat cywilizacyjny Samuela P. Huntingtona. Droga do zrozumienia współczesnych problemów Zachodu?

On the Very Idea of Civilisation

Civilization in The Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy