文明与文化的异同civilizationandculture.docx

Civilizationistheprogressofhumanbeingandthesystemofrationalsociety. This concept is contract but also can be interpreted from twoaspects-broadsenseandnarrowsense.Fromtheformerone,civilizationmeansallthedevelopthatculturegainsaswellaswell-behavedlifestyle,showingthelevelthatthematerialcivilization,spiritualcivilizationandpoliticalcivilizationhasreached.However,ifyouseeitfromthelatterperspective,civilizationonlyistheonehumanusetodescribethecontrarysidefrombarbaroussociety.Thereisalsoanewdefinitionofthiswordnowadays.“peoplewithspecificspacialandtemporaryconnectionownthecityarchitectureandscripture;thesame civilization contains of several similar types of countries and races;civilizationcanbedividedintopolitics,economicandculture,ofwhichcultureisthesoul.”That can explainwhy some countrieswas invaded orevenconquered but their civilization got passedgenerations.Civilizationalsocontainsofphilosophy,religionandart.

Most of scholars believed that there is some differences betweencivilizationandculture.LikeImentionedinthedefinitionbefore,civilization

issuperiortoculture,whichmeanscultureispartofcivilization.What ’smore,thatcivilizationandcultureissubjecttodifferentattributeisalsoanotherpopulartheory. AsAlfredWeber,oneofGermanyculturesocialists,oncesaid:“thedifferencebetweencultureandcivilizationisthatcivilizationistheonewhichbe“invented”whilecultureistheonethatbecreated.Theformeronecanpassedfromoneracetoanotherracebutdoesn ’tloseitsspecialty;itcanpassedfromonegenerationtoanothergenerationbutdoesn’tloseitsfunction.

So all the things like nature science and material tools can be seen ascivilization.Butcultureiscreatedbyhumansoitistheracialappearanceofaspecifictimeandplacewherecanonlypersevereitsoriginalessence.Anyonewho