Bridging Contrasts: A Mediator's Role in Harmonizing Western and Eastern Civilizations for a Unified Approach to Culture, Economy, and Quality of Life
Keywords:
Western civilization, Eastern civilization, civilization, culture, religionAbstract
The article examines the fundamental differences between Western and Eastern civilizations, as a result of which economic systems equally productive for each of them cannot exist. In this regard, both civilizations need a mediator capable of reconciling them, harmonizing opposites, and coordinating their advantages. To give birth to a new approach to culture, economics, spirituality, and quality of life, stimulating unity, not division, harmony, not cacophony.
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