Much of the greatest achievements in science, medicine,
government, philosophy, economics and human rights over the last millennium are
the products of western thought. It is this pursuit that has ensured the
transition and movement of our species to the most elevated level of progress
in its collective history.
Western Civilization has a history plays out in the context
of a survival against the face of
threats both internal and external. Driven by an obsession with progress the
West has emerged as an active agent in the dynamic framework of human history
and in so doing tells a story replete with characters, institutions, agents and
states all acting against the back drop of the broadest of flourishing
landscapes.
The story of the West can be divided into twelve attribute
factors personified by the specific culture, time period or intellectual facet
that so defines it. These are a. The Greeks b. The Romans c. The
Judeo-Christian framework d. Invasion/Feudalism e. Renaissance/Reformation f.
The Expansion g. Scientific Enlightenment h. Empire i. Industrialization j.
Total War k. Transition and l. Fusion
While it is true that the West has built on ideas that may
have had their genesis in the monoliths of China, India and the Near East – it
is western ingenuity that has provided the wherewithal to advance these
initiatives forward and so improve the human condition.
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