‘Civilization: A Contribution to the History of the Word’

‘Civilisation: Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas’

Civilization

To Rethink Standards of Civilisation, Start with the End

Many people recognise that there is a need to distinguish between states in the international system, such as on the basis of legitimacy. For much of the system’s history the means of drawing such distinctions have been standards of civilisation. For some, the need to divide and separate is unavoidable;…

The Thin Ice of Civilization

It is widely accepted that as time passes, the more we progress as both a species and as individual human beings; the more we progress, the more civilized we become individually and collectively; the more civilized we become, the further we are removed from the vestiges of savagery and barbarism.…

Civilization: “It Means Just What I Choose It to Mean”

Civilization is a complex and powerful word and idea that should neither be reviled nor revered, but it should be respected. It is said that the idea of civilization can be used simply to describe; but as a binary term, the ideal of civilization can be used to both to…

CIVILIZATION: THE ESSENCE OF AN EVALUATIVE DESCRIPTIVE CONCEPT

The power of ideas and language is not to be underestimated-ideas do matter, both "good" and "bad" ideas. John Maynard Keynes was right when he proclaimed that the "ideas of economists and political philosophers. both when they are right and when they are wrong. are more powerful than is commonly…

Towards A New Science of Civilization. A Synthetic Study of the Philosophical Views of al-Farabi, Ibn Khaldun, Arnold Toynbee, and Samuel Huntington

This article presents a synthetic study of the philosophical views of al-Farabi and Ibn Khaldun from classical Islam and Arnold Toynbee and Samuel Huntington from the modern West on the subject of civilizational science. On the basis of the Aristotelian idea of a true science, this article argues that al-Farabi…

Concept of Civilisation and Sustainable Development: A Maqasidic Orientation

This paper discusses the concept of “civilisation” and “civilisational sustainable development” with special reference to maqasid and values system in Islam. Islam, in its very nature, posits that civilisation is an integrated and a multi-faceted social phenomenon involving intellectual, social, socio-economic, cultural, spiritual, moral, material, and other aspects. The concept…

IMPORTANCE OF VALUE BASED EDUCATION ON CIVILISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This paper examines the importance of integrated value based education on civilisational development. It provides a framework for the study of education and its synthetic function on development of society. In very complex global environment, there is a need to re-visit the concept of education discerning its value and ethical…

Social Relations Network in Building Civilization An Analysis of Its Significance (Rangkaian Perhubungan Sosial Untuk Membina Ketamadnan Satu Analisis Kepentingannya)

This paper introduces the concept of social relations network as an important element in the process of building a civilisation. In general terms, any human society embarking on a civilizing process needs, among other things, four integral ingredients namely people, ideas, objects and social relations network. The realm of persons…

The Role of Islamic Studies in Muslim Civilization in the Globalized World: Malaysian Experience

Transportation in Contemporary Civilization

The dialogue of civilizations: An Eisenstadt legacy

The Clash of Civilizations: A Model of Historical Development?

Pretender to Universalism: Western Culture in a Globalizing Age

Models of Cultural Exclusion and Civilizational Clashes: A comparison between Huntington and Siddiqui

Medieval Unity and the Economic Conditions for an International Civilization

Review Essay: Potholes on the Road to Civilization

Is There a Clash of Civilizations? Evidence from Patterns of International Conflict Involvement, 194

Is Globalization a Dialogue among Civilizations?

The “Clash of Civilizations” Theory: An Overview from the South

Huntington’s Shift to the Declinist Camp: Conservative Declinism and the ‘Historical Function’ of the Clash of Civilizations

Samuel Huntington, a severe critic of decline theory and an adamant revivalist, shifted radically to the declinist camp with the end of the Cold War, his penultimate declinist vision being found in The Clash of Civilizations. A chronological analysis of his work (intellectual biography), though, shows continuity in his analysis…

In the labyrinth of international community: The Alliance of Civilizations programme at the United Nations

Examining Conflict Escalation Within the Civilizations Context

Representing civilization: Solidarism, ornamentalism, and Siam’s entry into international society

Cosmopolitanism, the clash of civilizations and multiple modernities

Gauging the Magnitude of Civilization Conflict

Clash of Civilizations, or Realism and Liberalism Deja Vu? Some Evidence

From ‘A Clash of Civilizations’ to ‘Internal Colonialism’: Reactions to the theoretical bases of Sam

The Vatican and Women’s Reproductive Health and Rights: A Clash of Civilizations?

Clash of Civilizations or Clash of Religions: Which is a More Important Determinant of Ethnic Confli

Relationships Among Multiple Identities

Clash of Civilizations and Escalation of Domestic Ethnopolitical Conflicts

Civilizations or Globalization? Intellectual Rapprochements and Historical World-Visions

The dialogue of civilizations: Philosophical basis, current state and prospects

Is the Globalization of the Economy Creating Values for a new Civilization?

Postmodernity and systems science: An evaluation of J.-L. Le Moigne’s contribution to the management of the present civilization

Social Ethics in a Post-Socialist World

An international civilization? Empire, internationalism and the crisis of the mid-twentieth century

A Clash of Civilizations or of Paradigms? Theorizing Progress and Social Change

The Decline and Rise of Mesopotamian Civilization: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective on the Evolution of Social Complexity

The Clash of Civilisations: The Church of Greece, the European Union and the Question of Human Right

The Evolution of Civilization

The First Symposium on Civilization Studies

Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile

Civilization and Progress

Civilization and Progress

Science, energy, ethics, and civilization

Civilization and Progress

Cities of Culture, Cities of Civilization

Cities in civilization

Three Visions of History and Theory

The Interrelations of Societies in History

Culture Contact on the Fringe of Civilization

Culture and Dialogue

Cultural Foundations for Economic Development

Crafts versus a Technological Civilization

Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions

Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions; Axial Civilizations and World History

Civilization, Culture and the New Barbarians

Civilization in a Historical and Global Perspective

Civilization as a Phase of World History

Civilization and Liberty

Civilization and its Sources

Civilization and Ambivalence

Wars and the Rise of Industrial Civilization, 1640-1740

War and Civilization in the Future

War and Civilization

War and Civilization

War and Civilization

Walsh’s The Climax of Civilization: Socialism; and Feminism

Vested Interests and Civilization

Toward An Understanding of Culture

Two Theories of Civilization

Trees: Symbols of Unification, Love, and Peace among Civilizations

Toward a Civilization of Work

Torture and Civilisation

The Influence of Food on Civilization

The Coming Civilization

The Unit of Civilization

The Status of Women as a Standard of ‘Civilization’

The Significance of Transportation to Civilization

The Rôle of Philosophy in the History of Civilization

The Relevance of Cultural Conditioning for Social Ethics

The Propaganda of Civilization

The Problem of Civilization in the Twentieth Century

The Problem of Civilization

The Position of Women in Early Civilization

The Place of Civilization in Modern Foreign Language Teaching

The Physical Dangers of Civilization

The Origins of Civilization

The Influence of Chemistry on Civilization

The Genealogy of Civilization

The Erotic South: Civilization and Sexuality in American Abolitionism

The empire of political thought: civilization, savagery and perceptions of Indigenous government

The Diseases of Civilization

The Concept of Civilization

The Civilizational Dimension of Modernity: Modernity as a Distinct Civilization

The Birthplace of Civilization