-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Monday, February 28, 2011
I wonder why this is?
“The great political ideologies of the twentieth century include liberalism, socialism, anarchism, corporatism, Marxism, communism, social democracy, conservatism, nationalism, fascism, and Christian democracy. They all share one thing in common: they are products of Western civilization. No other civilization has generated a significant political ideology. The West, however, has never generated a major religion. The great religions of the world are all products of non-Western civilizations and, in most cases, antedate Western civilization.”
-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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I think it might be because Western Culture approaches religion in two ways. Either it relies on tradition and thus doesn't create great new religions, or it simply dismisses religion altogether.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe liberalism, socialism, etc. are the religions of the West.
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