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    Western Culture and Judeo-Christian Judgement.Bina Nir - 2017 - Cultura 14 (2):69-88.
    Judeo-Christian Western culture recognizes a legislating, judging and punishing God. The view that a judge separate from man indeed exists, constitutes, among other things, cultural motivation for the pursuit of success, on the one hand, and fear of failure, guilt, on the other. The human-being fears the consequences of judgement, especially those entailing punishment, and attempts with all his might to succeed in the eyes of the judge. This study‟s underlying assumption is that judge-ment constitutes a deep structure (...)
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    Western Culture: A Collective Achievement.Jude P. Dougherty - 2019 - Studia Gilsoniana 8 (3):751–758.
    By examining selected works by Stephen Gaukroger, Alfred North Whitehead, Lynn White, Jr., Benjamin Farrington, and Paul Gans, the author discusses the formation of Western culture and the intellectual tools and the social conditions that contributed (and still contribute) to its being. He concludes that a metaphysics and a realistic epistemology—based on an ancient Greek confidence in the human intellect, in its ability to reason to truths that acknowledge the immaterial character of human intellection—is required for the West (...)
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    Western Culture at the American Crossroads: Conflicts Over the Nature of Science and Reason.Arthur Pontynen & Rod Miller - 2011 - Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
    America is experiencing a cultural malaise. As art historians Arthur Pontynen and Rod Miller show in this penetrating new book, our current cultural struggles result from repeated attempts to deny the qualitative foundation for culture that distinguishes civilization from barbarism. Tracing American art, science, and philosophy from the colonial era to the present, Western Culture at the American Crossroads reveals how a distinctively American culture emerged and where it went wrong. Culture cannot be merely a (...)
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    Contrast between Chinese and Western cultural values and its effects on English learning in China.Fuhua Zhang - 2024 - Trans/Form/Ação 47 (4):e0240062.
    Resumo: Com o aumento do intercâmbio cultural entre a China e o Ocidente, o inglês tem se tornado cada vez mais um curso obrigatório. Embora uma grande proporção de estudantes chineses tenha boa proficiência em inglês, suas habilidades comunicativas são muito pobres. Eles podem lutar para expressar-se efetivamente em inglês, devido às diferenças culturais entre a China e os países ocidentais. Como o ambiente de vida dos chineses é muito diferente do ambiente dos países ocidentais, os estudantes chineses geralmente seguem (...)
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    Reinventing Eden: the fate of nature in Western culture.Carolyn Merchant - 2003 - New York: Routledge.
    Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western culture from Columbus' voyages to today's tropical island retreats. Few narratives are so powerful - and, as Carolyn Merchant shows, so misguided and destructive - as the dream of recapturing a lost paradise. A sweeping account of these quixotic endeavors by one of America's leading environmentalists, Reinventing Eden traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations in shopping malls, theme (...)
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  6. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body.Susan Bordo - 1993 - University of California Press.
    In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.
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    The demoralization of Western culture: social theory and the dilemmas of modern living.Ralph Fevre - 2000 - New York, N.Y.: Continuum.
    In The Demoralization of Western Culture Ralph Fevre undertakes an explanation of these difficulties.
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    Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment.Brian P. Copenhaver - 2015 - Cambridge University Press.
    The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times - this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, (...)
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    Liang Shuming: Eastern and Western Cultures and Confucianism.Yanming An - 2002 - In Chung-Ying Cheng & Nicholas Bunnin (eds.), Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 147–164.
    This chapter contains section titled: Eastern and Western Culture Evolution of Terms Analysis of Chinese Society.
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  10. A Western Cultural Illusion.Andityas Soares De Moura Costa Matos - 2012 - Cultura 9 (1):43-55.
    Considering the basic assumption that the modern Law and State theory does not only bear similarities, but also draws true epistemological parallels to theconstructions of Theology, Hans Kelsen intends to lay bare the ideological meaning that lies at the very core of the traditional dualism which constitutes Law and State into autonomous entities. Taking into account Kelsen´s original perceptions – which are seconded by more recent contributions from Claude Lefort and Hans Lindahl’s political and symbolic concepts and from Carl Schmitt’s (...)
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  11. Part III: Chinese Aesthetics. Introduction: From the Classical to the Modern / Gao Jianping ; Several Inspirations from Traditional Chinese Aesthetics / Ye Lang ; The Theoretical Significance of Painting as Performance / Gao Jianping ; A Study in the Onto-Aesthetics of Beauty and Art: Fullness (chongshi) and Emptiness (kongling) as Two Polarities in Chinese Aesthetics / Cheng Chung-ying ; On the Modernisation of Chinese Aesthetics.Peng Feng & Reflections on Avant-Garde Theory in A. Chinese-Western Cross-Cultural Context - 2010 - In Ken'ichi Sasaki (ed.), Asian Aesthetics. Singapore: National Univeristy of Singapore Press.
     
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    The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited.John Carroll - 2008 - Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Edited by John Carroll.
    Humanism built Western civilization as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassadors are the heroes of modern culture—Erasmus, Holbein, Shakespeare, Velázquez, Descartes, Kant, Freud. Those who sought to contain humanism’s pride within a frame of higher truth—Luther, Calvin, Poussin, Kierkegaard—could barely interrupt its torrential progress. Those who sought to reform humanism’s tenets from within—Marx, Darwin, and Nietzsche—were tested by the success of their own (...)
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    Religion and Magic in Western Culture.Daniel Dubuisson - 2016 - Brill.
    In this book, Daniel Dubuisson analyses the long history of the dichotomy between religion and magic, as well as the great stakes of power which it has concealed over the centuries.
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    Bioethics as a Western Culture-Bound Syndrome.Michael A. Weingarten - 2011 - The European Legacy 16 (3):327-337.
    In this article I argue that the four guiding principles of medical ethics—autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice—reflect the values of western culture, but do not necessarily apply outside of it. Western medical practitioners faced with the care of nonwestern patients need to examine their own prejudices in order to accept, not merely tolerate, other values. Acceptance of the other requires that the doctor welcome the patient as one welcomes a guest, openly and equally, with a willingness to (...)
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    The horror of ethnocentrism: Westernization, cultural difference, and strife in understanding non-western pasts in historical studies.Jörn Rüsen - 2008 - History and Theory 47 (2):261–269.
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    Male/Female in Western Culture from Antiquity to the Present.Nadezhda Gonotskaya & Galina Kirilenko - 2019 - Researcher. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (1):15-26.
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    The Evangelization of Western Culture.Stratford Caldecott - 2000 - The Chesterton Review 26 (4):463-469.
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    The Neoplatonic Leaven in Western Culture.Joseph Owens - 1988 - Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 5:181-185.
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  19. Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age.J. D. Bolter - 1985 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63:520.
     
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    The influence of Western culture on the Central Asian States’ and Kazakhstan’s science.Sanat Ainakulov, Mereke Tulekova & Nurzhamal Oshanova - 2024 - Trans/Form/Ação 47 (3):e02400186.
    Resumo: A relevância do estudo deve-se ao fato de que a cultura da Ásia Central é de grande interesse para a ciência sociológica moderna, enquanto objeto de estudo da interação intercultural, como um fenômeno multifacetado, complexo, controverso e dinâmico. O tópico da influência da cultura e da filosofia ocidentais na ciência das regiões mais orientais, de acordo com os autores, tem sido bastante negligenciado. O objetivo do artigo é estudar a influência da cultura ocidental na ciência dos estados da Ásia (...)
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    Critical Multiculturalism.Chicago Cultural Studies Group - 1992 - Critical Inquiry 18 (3):530.
    We would like to open some questions here about the institutional and cultural conditions of anything that might be called cultural studies or multiculturalism. By introducing cultural studies and multiculturalism many intellectuals aim at a more democratic culture. We share this aim. In this essay, however, we would like to argue that the projects of cultural studies and multiculturalism require: a more international model of cultural studies than the dominant Anglo-American versions; renewed attention to the institutional environments of cultural (...)
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    Defending the rise of western culture against its multicultural critics.Ricardo Duchesne - 2005 - The European Legacy 10 (5):455-484.
    It is only in Western Europe that the whole pattern of culture is to be found in a continuous succession and alternation of free spiritual movements; so that every century of Western history shows a change in the balance of cultural elements, and the appearance of some new spiritual force which creates new ideas and institutions and produces a further movement of social change (Christopher Dawson).
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    Metaphors addressing the relationship between Chinese and Western cultures in Mao’s speeches.Qing Liu - 2021 - Critical Discourse Studies 18 (2):207-225.
    This study analyzes the cognitive and discursive process through which the issue of learning from the West is addressed in four of People's Republic of China founder Mao Zedong's political speeches – On New Democracy (1940), On Coalition Government (1945), On the Ten Major Relationships (1956), and Conversation with Musicians (1956). The study adopts a critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective and utilizes blending theory to investigate the metaphorical conceptualizations Mao uses to cope with the cultural dilemma of learning from the (...)
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    Mathematics in Western Culture.Morris Kline - 1955 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 15 (3):434-436.
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    History of attitudes toward death: a comparative study between Persian and Western cultures.Kiarash Aramesh - 2016 - Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 9 (1).
    In his seminal book on the historical periods of Western attitudes toward death, Philippe Aries describes four consecutive periods through which these attitudes evolved and transformed. According to him, the historical attitudes of Western cultures have passed through four major parts described above: “Tamed Death,” One’s Own Death,” “Thy Death,” and “Forbidden Death.” This paper, after exploring this concept through the lens of Persian Poetic Wisdom, concludes that he historical attitudes of Persian-speaking people toward death have generally passed (...)
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    Death, desire, and loss in Western culture.Jonathan Dollimore - 1998 - New York: Routledge.
    From Odysseus' seduction by the song of the Sirens to Oscar Moore's 1991 novel A Matter of Life and Sex , whose protagonist courts death through sex and dies of AIDS, the frustrated relationship between death and desire has fixated the Western imagination. Philosophers have grappled with it and poets have told of its beauty and pain. In this strikingly original work, cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore once again demonstrates his remarkable ability to take on the complex and reveal its (...)
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    Comment on “Contrast Between Chinese and Western Cultural Values and Its Effects on English Learning in China”.Rui Gao - 2024 - Trans/Form/Ação 47 (4):e02400257.
    Commented article: ZHANG, F. H. Contrast Between Chinese and Western Cultural Values and Its Effects on English Learning in China. Trans/Form/Ação: revista de filosofia da Unesp, v. 47, n. 4, “Eastern thought”, e0240062, 2024. Available at: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/14621.
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    The Islamic and Western Cultures and Values of Privacy.Sattam Eid Almutairi - 2019 - Muslim World Journal of Human Rights 16 (1):51-80.
    The paper provides valuable accounts of the general concepts underlying privacy law in both cultures, and great detail about the impact of criminal procedure and evidence rules on privacy in reality rather than legal theory. It is, in this sense, a “realist” approach to privacy, particularly but not exclusively in relation to sexual activity. The distinction which the article draws between the frameworks within which privacy is conceived broadly, self-determination and limited government in the USA, protection of one’s persona in (...)
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    Humanism: the wreck of Western culture.John Carroll - 1993 - London: Fontana Press.
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    New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular.Evelyn A. Kirkley - 1998 - Church History 67 (3):622-623.
  31. Ayer’s Book or Errors and the Crises of Contemporary Western Culture.Aaron Preston - 2021 - In Adam Tamas Tuboly (ed.), The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave. pp. 333-364.
    This essay takes the position, consistent with Ayer’s own retrospective judgments, that the philosophical significance of Language, Truth and Logic (LTL) was minimal at best, and that its real significance was socio-historical. LTL stands as one of the most influential expressions of an overzealous and simplistic scientism that swept through Western culture in the first half of the twentieth century. This scientism played a crucial role in problematizing the West’s relationship to truth in ways that contributed to the (...)
     
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    Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture.Gustav Jahoda - 1998 - Routledge.
    In _Images of Savages,_ the distinguished psychologist Gustav Jahoda advances the provocative thesis that racism and the perpetual alienation of a racialized 'other' are a central leagacy of the Western tradition. Finding the roots of these demonizations deep in the myth and traditions of classical antiquity, he examines how the monstrous humanoid creatures of ancient myth and the fabulous "wild men" of the medieval European woods shaped early modern explorers' interpretations of the New World they encountered. Drawing on a (...)
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  33. Radical Monotheism and Western Culture, with Supplementary Essays.Richard Niebuhr - 1960
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    Anglo-Saxon Literature and Western Culture.Clinton Albertson - 1958 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 33 (1):93-116.
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    Humanism and Religion: A Call for the Renewal of Western Culture.Jens Zimmermann - 2012 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Jens Zimmermann suggests that the West can rearticulate its identity and renew its cultural purpose by recovering the humanistic ethos that originally shaped Western culture. He traces the religious roots of humanism, and combines humanism, religion and hermeneutic philosophy to re-imagine humanism for our current cultural and intellectual climate.
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  36. Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies (1921).Liang Shuming - 2001 - Journal of Philosophy 19 (22):101.
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    Modern science and western culture: The issue of time.Steven Louis Goldman - 1982 - History of European Ideas 3 (4):371-401.
    *This paper was presented at a conference on scientific concepts of time in humanistic and social perspectives organised by J.T. Fraser and held at the Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, in July 1981. I wish to thank Y. Elkana, Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation and M. Ron, Curator of the history of science collections at the Jewish National Library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, for making facilities available to me in researching and preparing this paper.
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    Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture.David Blackbourn - 2014 - Common Knowledge 20 (3):499-500.
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    The Survival of Western Culture.Louis O. Kattsoff - 1944 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4 (4):588-591.
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  40. The mathematical basis of western culture.The Editor The Editor - 1941 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 22 (2):117.
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    David J. Kettle, Western Culture in Gospel Context: Towards the Conversion of the West: Theological Bearings for Mission and Spirituality.Esther L. Meek - 2012 - Tradition and Discovery 39 (1):74-76.
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    About Science in Modern Western Culture.Lucien Morten - 1987 - Dialectics and Humanism 14 (3):39-47.
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    The sources of Western culture.Georgia Elma Harkness - 1955 - London,: Skeffington.
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  44. The Seminary and Western Culture: Relationships that Promote Recovery and Holiness.James Keating - 2016 - Nova et Vetera 14 (4).
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    Sexual Difference and Decolonization: Oyĕwùmí and Irigaray in Dialogue about Western Culture.Azille Coetzee & Annemie Halsema - 2018 - Hypatia 33 (2):178-194.
    In this article we aim to show the potential of cross-continental dialogues for a decolonizing feminism. We relate the work of one of the major critics of the Western metaphysical patriarchal order, Luce Irigaray, to the critique of the colonial/modern gender system by the Nigerian feminist scholar Oyĕrónké Oyĕwùmí. Oyĕwùmí's work is often rejected based on the argument that it is empirically wrong. We start by problematizing this line of thinking by providing an epistemological interpretation of Oyĕwùmí's claims. We (...)
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  46. LINE'S Mathematics in Western Culture[REVIEW]Montague Montague - 1954 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 15:434.
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    IT in western culture: A new technology with ancient roots.Athena Leoussi - 2000 - Knowledge, Technology & Policy 13 (2):14-29.
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    Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture.David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames - 1998 - SUNY Press.
    Examines the issues of self (including gender), truth, and transcendence in classical Chinese and Western philosophy.
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    The “Nature” of ‘Nature’: The concept of nature and its complexity in a Western cultural and ethical context.Lisbeth Witthøfft Nielsen - 2004 - Global Bioethics 17 (1):31-38.
    In the present Western cultural and political context, the concept of nature plays a central role in the debate about new technologies. However, the concept of nature is complex and reflects more than one frame of reference stemming from a long historical tradition. ‘Nature’ is referred to: a) as the object (phenomenon) toward which the debate is directed, and b) as the normative frame of reference that either justifies or rejects the technological method in specific situations. This paper argues, (...)
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  50. Meaning of work in western culture.Dh Wrong - 1971 - Humanitas 7 (2):215-226.
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