Civilizations and value 2 ( civilizations and quasi-civilizations )

However, there was one conclusion that was shown in ``Study of Civilization.'' Civilizations did not evolve through changes in the form of individual civilizations, but rather it was the relationships between these civilizations that gave rise to and evolved civilizations.

 

A typical example of this may be the relationship between Islamic civilization and European civilization. The relationship between these two civilizations resulted in the creation of the current Western civilization. In this relationship, the ``scarcity'' that remained at the center of the driving force of European civilization was overcome, giving rise to Western civilization's faith in military and capital.

 

This background in civilization theory may actually be the most important. The change in hegemony is also often discussed from an economic or capitalist perspective. However, capital and military forces cannot be established on their own. Elucidating this problem will be another important theme of this paper.

 

As with any civilization, there is a moral system that operates human society. And that becomes the standard of civilization. Among them, there were civilizations whose moral systems had influence across multiple nations. Here, we will specifically refer to such civilizations as ``civilizations,'' which are like stars having  the influence  to planets. Such civilizations include European civilization, Islamic civilization, Indian civilization, and Chinese civilization . These four civilizations are aggregations of humans who have had systematic morals in an international sense , and have influenced smaller civilizations in their periphery.

 

On the other hand, in the sense of " a nation , " this is a collection of humans that has its own moral system , and that has been greatly influenced by so-called "civilization." In this case, I will specifically refer to it as a "quasi-civilization . "

 In the ``Research on Quasi-Civilizations'', there were roughly four types of such quasi -civilizations .

 

　① Colonial type quasi-civilization, ② Penetration type quasi-civilization, ③ Frontier type quasi-civilization, ④ Fusion type quasi-civilization.　

 

Therefore , I proposed a method of classification .

 

Oceania and South America as “colonial quasi-civilizations” (North America may also be included)

Russia as “penetrating quasi-civilizations”

The Far East and the Far West as “frontier quasi-civilizations”

 Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia as ``fusion-type quasi-civilizations . ''

 

 Each quasi-civilization can be explained as an ideal type as follows.

A colonial type quasi-civilization is a civilization in which the influence of the colonizers was stronger than that of the natives, and an penetrating type semi-civilization is a  civilization in which the influence of the natives remained relatively strong over the penetrating civilization .  Frontier-type quasi-civilizations are those that were under the influence of civilizations (one of the four civilizations) on only one side , but on the other hand, their unique characteristics remained strong , and fusion-type quasi-civilizations are civilizations surrouned from multiple directions . It is a quasi-civilization that has been strongly influenced by several  civilizations(including quasi-civilizations) , but has also been created by overlapping these influences .

 

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