Parallel Structures of Civilizational and Scientific Processes
"In the perception of civilizations, we often judge a society by its concrete achievements, but ignore the motives
that give birth and feed civilizations, which can be discovered by rationally analyzing the phenomena leading to the
rise of a civilization. In this paper, I define a civilization as a universalized local culture emerging as a result of an accumulation which builds up through the manifestation of the human inner world within a social context. According to this definition, a civilization is primarily a culture; but a local culture which has been universalized.