Western civilization

is a civilization which claims conceptual thinking as its basic characteristic.

Let's go back to the beginning for a moment. The point we must start from is the fact that conceptual thinking is a basic characteristic of the Occident. But even the word 'Occident' [Abendland, land of evening] is no longer as current as it was in my youth, when Oswald Spengler announced its decline.1 (Gadamer 'late writings' 'from word to concept' 109)

is a phenomenon that had its biggest impact on the upper classes.

western table manners, western education, wall-papered and sofa'ed 'Western rooms' in private houses, Western ideas of family and sexual morality have had their chief impact on the upper classes' (Dore city life in japan 217).

is a professor of two great values: To continually increase the per capita supply of energy and to protect and prolong human life.

They would seem to be two: in the first place, to borrow Dr. Leslie White's phrase. Western civilization seeks continually to increase the per capita supply of energy... secondly, it seeks to protect and prolong human life. To put the matter in a nutshell, the second aspect may be regarded as a derivative of the first, since the absolute quantity of energy available increases in proportion to the length and health of the individual life. For the sake of avoiding argument, we may also admit at once that compensatory phenomena, acting, as it were, as a brake, may go with these developments, such as the great slaughters of world warfare and the inequalities in the consumption of available energy between individuals and classes. (levi-strauss 1952 : 32)

is, in Japan, a phenomenon that had its biggest impact on the upper classes.

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The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.

is notable for having survived the onslaughts of Visigoths, Vandals and Vikings, only to sputter out unlamented during the age of Video.

(archaic) The reviled culture of Dead White European Males; notable for having survived the onslaughts of Visigoths , Vandals and Vikings, only to sputter out unlamented during the age of Video. Spumed by enlightened academics who find it insufficient as a means of promoting their political agenda. Unpopular, too, among those who sense their shortcomings all the more acutely in the presence of the sublime. still recognized by some authorities for having made a few notable contributions to the advancement of our species; e.g., flying-buttresses, forks, bifocals and whitewall tires.

is spurned by enlightened academics who find it insufficient as a means of promoting their political agenda.

is still recognized by some authorities for having made a few notable contributions to the advancement of our species; e.g., flying-buttresses, forks, bifocals and whitewall tires.

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western civilization