著者

高橋 一生

出版者

日本共生科学会

雑誌

共生科学 (ISSN:21851638)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.10, pp.18-27, 2019

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The first global civilization has been characterized by the dominance of PaxBritanica to be followed by Pax Americana for the past 200 years. Based on thephilosophical underpinning of individualism, such factors and values as marketeconomy, democracy, freedom, human rights and the rule of law in the broadframework of the nation-states system have been globalized with, however,increasing sense of uncomfortableness with this trend in various parts of theworld. With the decline of the influence of the United States and with theemergence of alternative values based on perspectives beyond individualism, anew global civilization seems to be in the offing.It should be essential for the intellectual community to come to grips withthis phenomenon up-front at this historic moment in time. The objective of thispaper is to present a rough sketch of the issues involved in analyzing thischallenge. The first set of issues are related to the problems that tend to arisein the context of civilizational change. The second set of issues are related tothe substance of the new civilization. At the end of the paper a series ofgeneral observations will be presented.