Good article.
"the defenders of the civilization-state are saying that the search for universal values is over, that all of us must accept that we speak only for ourselves and our societies"
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"the defenders of the civilization-state are saying that the search for universal values is over, that all of us must accept that we speak only for ourselves and our societies"
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"a civilization grounded in the Enlightenment values of free reason and liberty, which the West believed to be universal, turns out to be merely its own, one among many ways to organize human endeavor"
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"And we see it in the West itself in the long-simmering culture wars between conservative traditional values of family and religion and an ever-more liberalizing secular modernity that I once described as the Pope vs. Madonna (the pop singer.)"
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"In a civilization such as China’s with a millennial past of weighty traditions, ways of life are culturally embedded and largely ascribed as part and parcel of historical continuity. That received identity is the very substance of the claims to a civilizational state"
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"Perhaps the next stage after the return of civilizational states is a “planetary commonwealth” of diverse civilizations in which all join to preserve the conditions for the existence of each other"
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Has a lot of relevance for this kind of thinking on Hindu side as well. Our answers ofcourse may prove to be different from that of China or 'The West'
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