Cultura occidentalis
[1]
sensu lato non solum ad
mores
et
normas
sed etiam ad
patrimonia
ideologica
,
ethica
ac
politica
refertur. Etiamque consistit in rebus
arte
factis peculiaribus, quarum origo aut ratio ad
Europam
pertinet. Praeterea culturae occidentalis sunt
civitates
, quarum
historia
immigratione
Europaea pernotuit, sicut civitates
America Septentrionalis
atque
Australasiae
.
Culturae occidentalis propria sunt complures mores
artis
,
constitutiones
legum
, nec non
scribendi
et
philosophandi
traditiones praesertim ex mundo
Graeco-
Romano
oriunda, etiamque patrimonia multorum gregum
ethnicorum
eorundemque linguarum, sicut
Celtarum
et
Germanorum
. Praeterea
religio Christiana
ad civilizationem occidentalem formandam post
saeculum IV
saltem quam purimum contulit.
[3]
[4]
Etiam in variis vitae actibus
rationalismus
, a
philosophis Hellenisticis
,
scholasticis
,
humanistis
,
illuministis
, itemque ab auctoribus
revolutionis scientificae
et
innovationis
partus et traditus, ad mentes hominum Europaeorum formandas multum contulit. Existimationes culturae occidentali communes per aetates a
philosophia politica
ductae sunt, cum
disputationes
rationales
cogitationi liberae
, adsumptioni
iurum humanorum
,
egalitarismo
nec non
democratiae
faveant.
[5]
Documenta historica originem culturae occidentalis in Europa vigentis a
Graecia antiqua
et
Roma antiqua
ducunt. Itaque cultura occidentalis continuo crevit fide Christiana per
medium aevum Europaeum
crebrescente, vique
renascentiae
ad
reformationem
renovationemque impellente, et denique
imperiis Europaeis
colonias sibi parantibus modosque vivendi educandique rationes Europaeas circa orbem terrarum inter saecula
XVI
et
XX
spargentibus.
[6]
Quae cum ita sint, cultura Europaea nata est ex multiplici philosophiae,
scholasticae
mediaevalis,
mysticismi
varietate cum humanismo Christiano et saeculari coniuncta. Cogitatio rationalis per longum mutationis et formationis tempus crevit, scilicet
experimentis
illuminationis
et inventis
scientificis
proficiens. Cultura Europaea, cum per orbem terrarum extenderetur, superbo appetitu alienogenarum morum tacta est.
[7]
Inclinationes rerum ac momenta, quibus definiri coeptae sunt
societates
occidentales hodiernae, sunt
pluralismus
,
subculturae
vel
contraculturae
conspicuae, sicut motus Novae Aetatis (Anglice
New Age
), et
syncretismus
culturalis ex
globalizatione
et
gentiumque migratione
consecutus.
- ↑
"cultura vere humana ? scilicet non tantum cultura occidentalis": Wilhelm Bertrams,
Quaestiones fundamentales iuris canonici
(
p. 263 in nota subiuncta
apud
Google Books
)
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Huntington, Samuel P. (2 Augusti 2011).
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Woods 2005.
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Debnath 2010.
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Debnath 2010.
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