Социальное объявление развития english
social-historic analysis is the universal epochal cycle consisting of four interrelated elements (two opposite historical periods and two transient periods), which form the conventional scheme: «involution»–«co-evolution» –«evolution» –«revolution».Now let us try to define specific «beacons» (the most important events in the spiritual or material spheres) on the historical material (after receiving the empirical data, this hypothesis may be reviewed). These «beacons» will give grounds for defining the possible chronological frames of every phase and the epochal cycle on the whole. After this analysis, we define an approximate number of cycles, already «processed» in the world historical process. On the grounds of such a research, it would be possible to create an adequate model of periodization of a change of epochal cycles.
Such a periodization should reflect the mechanisms of interaction at the three hierarchical levels: global, regional, and of certain countries. In this case, one may assume that the higher the hierarchical level, the later the transformational changes begin at it (for example, at the global level).
But, first of all, we make an approximate list of the elements (classifications) of the social-economic formations. The Marxist «five-element structure» – primitive communal, slave-owning, feudalist, capitalist, and communist systems – «works» to the «post-capitalist» formation.
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Pre-industrial society | The epoch of ancient kingdoms |
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Middle Ages | |
Capitalism | Industrial society | Modern and contemporary time |
Informational society – Post-industrial society |
We emphasize that the model by Spengler[55] is the most developed system of periodization in a strong accordance with the cyclic approach.
Table 1
«Simultaneous» spiritual epochs
1500-1200 BC | 1100-800 BC | 0-300 AD | since 900 AD | |
Vedic religion Indian culture | Hellen-Italic “demetrian” culture The Olympic myth Antique culture |
Arabic culture syncretism (Mithra, Boal) |
Western Culture Germanic Catholicism |
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The birth of a myth of the big style as the expression of the new God perception. The world’s fear and the world’s sorrow. (Spring) | Aryan heroic legends | Homer. Legends about Heracles and Tess |
Apocaleptics |
Bernard de Clairvaux Knightly epos. St. Francis of Assisi. |
The early mystico-metaphysical formation of a new view on the world. High scholasticism. (Summer) | The most ancient parts of the Veda | The Orphic, cosmogony | Origen (254 AD) Mani (276 AD) Avesta, Talmud | Thomas Aquinas (1274) Dante (1321) scholasticism |
Reformation: the protest within the national religion against the great forms of the early epoch |
Brahmins | The religion of Dionysus |
Augustinus (430 AD) Nestorians, Mazdak |
Hus (1415), Savonarola, Luther, Calvin |
Continued
1500-1200 BC | 1100-800 BC | 0-300 AD | since 900 AD | ||||||
The beginning of the pure philosophical formulation of idealistic and realistic systems |
Upanishads | Great pre- So cratics |
Byzantine,
Hebrew, Syrian, Coptic, Persian literature of (VI-VII centuries) |
Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz (XVI - XVII centuries) | |||||
The creation of a new mathematics. The conception of a number as the reflection of the sense of the world form |
lost | Number as measure. Pythagor (540 BC) | Indefinite number. Algebra | Number as function. Descartes, Pascal, Fermat (1030) | |||||
Traces in the Upanishads | Pythagorean union | Mohammed (622 AD), the Paulicians, the iconoclasts | English Puritans (1620), French Jansenists (1640) | ||||||
Autumn Intellectuals of big towns. The culmination of strictly intellectual creativity | |||||||||
«Enlighten-ment»: the faith in the omnipotence of intellect, the cult of «nature». «Reasonable religion» | The Sutra, Buddha | the Sophists, Socrates | Sufism | Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau | |||||
The culmination of the mathematical thinking. The enlightenment of the world of number forms |
Null as a number | Eudox (conic section) | Number theory, trigonometry | Euler (1783), Laplace (1827) | |||||
Continued
1500-1200 BC | 1100-800 BC | 0-300 AD | since 900 AD | ||
The great concluding systems | |||||
of idealism: | Yoga, Vedanta | Platon | Al-Farabi | Goethe, Schelling | |
of epistemology: | Nyaa | Aristotle | Avicenna | Hegel, Kant, Fichte | |
Winter The beginning of outward-looking civilization. The dying of the spiritual creative power. The very life is becoming problematic | |||||
The materialistic view of the world: the cult of science, profit, happiness | Sankhaya, Charvaka | the Cynics | Epicurean sects of the Abbasids’ epoch | Bentham, O.Comte, Darwin, Spencer, Marx | |
Ethico-social ideals of life: the epoch of «philosophy without mathematics» | Currents of Buddha epoch | Hellenism | Currents in the Islam | Schopenhauer, Nietzsche | |
The inner completion of the mathematic world of forms. The concluding thoughts |
lost | Archimedes | Al-Khoresmi, Al-Biruni | Gauss, Riemann (1866) | |
The decline in abstract thinking up to the professionally-scientific cathedra-philosophy | «Six> | Academy | Schools of Baghdad and Basra | Comteans | |
The spread of the last outlook | Indian Buddhism | Hellenistical- Roman Stoicism | Practical Islamic fatalism | Ethical socialism | |