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By Thomas Langan
Our rising global procedure is bringing the good traditions and cultures it has spawned into ever extra intimate and unsafe touch. Langan argues that we needs to fight towards a solidarity of discourse respectful of actual studies of various civilizations if we're to dwell peacefully on one planet.
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Page 17 dehumanization and brutalization shatter. But anyone not animated by the good father's confidence in the inevitability of the triumph of the divine plan in evolution will want to remain more open to at least the possibility of ultimate failure of the earthly city that God's gift of freedom seems to allow. The eagle-eyed reader may note here that Spengler's pessimism is also associated with a different development in the philosophy of historythat of multiple, independent, unitary structures in history, such as his culture-civilizationsrather than the singular structure of that philosophical tradition of historical analysis credited originally to St.
These judgments are made by Page 20 extrapolation and therefore essentially depend on some kind of (modest) historical knowledge. Some extrapolations are merely anticipations of regularities with which we have become familiar: we expect the sun to come up each morning, and we expect the subway trains to show every two minutes or so at our station. Others require the imaginary prolonging of a direction which has already established itself: Toronto has been attracting immigrants and people from the small towns for years.
Note that a proper appreciation of the significance of a process demands consideration on an appropriate scale. The Great Depression, viewed from a perspective that reaches only from 1920 to 1940, appears monstrous, trend-reversing, and interminable. But if one graphs all the economic ups and downs since the middle of the nineteenth century, it appears to have been the steepest among a series of quite regular declines, a number of which in the later part of the last century were very serious. The appropriateness of the scale is determined by what we are after in studying a given process.