Myth of the New Machine Age

Zhiyi Liu ()
Additional contact information
Zhiyi Liu: Shanghai Jiaotong University

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Power of Ideas, 2022, pp 161-178 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Since mankind came into modern civilization, they have developed the thought of science and progressivism, which has completely transformed the direction of human civilization. Undoubtedly, different cultural tendencies lead to development paths of civilizations. The rationalist thought shaped by ancient Greek culture and the contract based social order formed by the ancient Hebrew have laid the foundation for the whole western civilization and provided soil for the contemporary popular scientific progressive thought. At the same time, China began its modern civilization by learning from the West after entering modern times. The traditional Chinese thought of “benevolence” did not open up the evolution path of modern civilization and science due to the limitations of equal and undifferentiated love and the social order based on blood relationships. Although China has basically caught up with the average level of the West in economy and science and technology over the past four decades, and has even become the world’s second largest economy in terms of total economic output, we have not made any breakthrough in the imagination and definition of future civilization as well as in the thinking about the development of civilization after entering the digital age.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:conchp:978-981-19-4574-8_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811945748

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-4574-8_10

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Contributions to Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().