The Reason Under Fire: In Defense of Meta-Civilization

By Abdulmouti Souwed

1- Criticizing the idea of the fall of civilization and listing and discussing evidence from books about the fall
2- The continuity of civilization's misfortune with the excellent realization of the victories of the Age of Enlightenment, considering it the first embodiment based on reason, science and humanity as the pillars of civilization.
3- Presentation of the author's thesis with the title
” Meta-Civilization” and, talk about the pillars of the second civilization considering the progress Science-Technology as big pillar of Meta
Finally, the conclusion with open questions

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Mar 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9781543772593

Abdulmouti Souwed

1- Criticizing the idea of the fall of civilization and listing and discussing evidence from books about the fall 2- The continuity of civilization's misfortune with the excellent realization of the victories of the Age of Enlightenment, considering it the first embodiment based on reason, science and humanity as the pillars of civilization. 3- Presentation of the author's thesis with the title ” Meta-Civilization” and, talk about the pillars of the second civilization considering the progress Science-Technology as big pillar of Meta Finally, the conclusion with open questions

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CONTENTS

Preamble

Note

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1     Matches

Chapter 2     Fall the West and Civilization

Chapter 3     Three fronts (illusions) fighting civilization

PART II

Chapter 4     The retreat of the Middle Ages

Chapter 5     The Renaissance-Sense- The launch is the beauty of existence

Chapter 6     A New Spirit Of Civilization

Chapter 7     The Power of Rational

PART III

Chapter 8     The Industrial Revolutions

Chapter 9     The bridge between two civilizations

Chapter 10   Glory to Science and Technology, but utopia has not been realized

PART IV

Chapter 11   Meta-Civilization

Chapter 12   Immortality is it Dangerous, Magic or Fiction?

Chapter 13   Immortality - Discussion

Conclusion

References

A HUMANIST CIVILIZATION- Supreme Ambition

A Humanist civilization is one in which the principles of the Humanist philosophy are dominant and find practical embodiment in laws, institutions, economics, culture, and indeed all the more significant aspects of individual and social life

Ref: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMANISM CORLISS LAMONT EIGHTH EDITION, REVISED 1997 P.298

In Very Easy Words

I defend civilization against savagery, primitiveness and barbarism.

When we claim that civilization has fallen, it is implied, consciously or unconsciously, that the people of civilization have fallen, which is humanly and morally unacceptable.

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PREAMBLE

Since the beginning of existence Homo Existence and humans have spoken and written and lived the farce of existence that reflected human conflicts and wars with knife and bullets and weapons of mass destruction and they still talk about war, victory, defeat and peace, but why did they not care about fighting and defeating death and thinking about eternity and this last point is the focus of the Met-Civilization thinking

About achievements of West Civilization and the rise of new one, assuming immortality, briefly point this is eternal victory of Reason and Rational power.

This is an ambrella of the crutial point of my book.

NOTE

I say first of all, I am not concerned in my book with the political aspect of the West, which is polluted by Colonialism, Centralization, Violence, Exploitation, Racism, Egocentrism and Oppression of weak peoples and all that has been raised and is still being raised in the countries of the world against what they call the piracy of the polluted West and the enslavement of the weak, etc.

But the intellectual and cultural elites, orientalists and other currents were and still are opposing prejudices and exploiting political systems and defending human consciousness and awareness.

My admiration is the creative one who has changed and continues to change the direction of World and this is the idea of the sanctity of the existence, freedom, loftiness(Transcend) of Reason or the power of the rational

My fascination of the West mind is the themes of power of Rational, passion of Enlightenment and, understanding meaning

and life wisdom, this in one word is the Triumph of civilization against Barbarism.

In the fire of war, I defend civilization itself and life wisdom, this in one word is the Triumph of civilization against Barbarism. In the fire of war, I defend civilization itself

When I speak of civilization and the West, I transcend the populist language and the language of everyday or prejudiced politics#

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# The French sociologist’s book can be found in my note, 2005 : Culture et Barbarie Europeenne, Paris, Bayard.

How the civilization of the West transformed the weight of the rigid world into existence?

Civilization is not a lost cause, it is the destination of man and power

Each civilization is as much a product of underlying or human subconscious or it makes forever

The world today, after living the victory of Enlightenment, lives today, not the fall of civilization, but experiencing the victory of civilization, and the creativity of the West takes place in the manufacture of man and life, or their fabrication in a new creation, I mean the dream of Immortality. This last picture of New West Civilization, see later

If the West collapse, the (Russian-Chinese) world will have no meaning and tomorrow’s failed world will be subject to totalitarian oppressive regimes. The World of tomorrow(may) live by bread alone.

Civilization is the hugh Culture or (Kultur)# or the various types of knowledge and its development

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## Kultur, from Germanic Language means Culture and Civilization

Civilization has many and varied definitions of characteristics according to historians and anthropologists, especially in the material and human structures of civilization, which are worthy of attention, but I am interested here only with the intellectual and cultural definition and the pattern of thinking. The contemporary global civilization with a Western basis is in its general description as culture, thought, mind and technology.

Religion does not create civilization, but guides people to faith and a righteous life, and focuses on building temples, churches, places of worship, and the life of the soul, drawing the features of the sanctuary

In other word Religion creates a pattern of life different from the civilized way known in the terms of the human sciences or historians of the history of civilizations

INTRODUCTION

The first impulse for the writing of this book come from Anxiety after the Russian invasion of Ukraine-24-Feb 2022- and the possibility of Russia’s victory with the Chinese regime revitalized and consequently the attempt of the victors over the West to destroy Western civilization by installing the totalitarian political system that is repressive by the nature of its formation, erasing the free and creative thought that is at the origin of the formation of civilization since the beginnings of the history of civilizations all the way to the civilization of the West Contemporary

The Reason # is Tool and Technic

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# Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth.[1][2] It is closely[how?] associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, language, mathematics, and art, and is normally considered to be a distinguishing ability possessed by humans.[3] Reason is sometimes referred to as rationality

In contrast to the use of reason as an abstract noun, a reason is a consideration given which either explains or justifies events, phenomena, or behavior.[8] Reasons justify decisions, reasons support explanations of natural phenomena; reasons can be given to explain the actions (conduct) of individuals. Ref Wikipedia (Net-Google)

But as the philosopher (Kant) hypothetically reads our claims of rationality, he shouted loudly, demanding that the allegations be stopped

Fallacious reasoning

Today we use the Reason tool

"Flawed reasoning in arguments is known as fallacious reasoning. Bad reasoning within arguments can be because it commits either a formal fallacy or an informal fallacy.

Formal fallacies occur when there is a problem with the form, or structure, of the argument. The word formal refers to this link to the form of the argument. An argument that contains a formal fallacy will always be invalid.

An informal fallacy is an error in reasoning that occurs due to a problem with the content, rather than mere structure, of the argument" Ibid

In history and today there are countless examples of using reason to justify our actions

The ancient imperialists justified by reason that they want to (prepare the backward peoples and the white European man is entrusted with the matter (with reason) because life does not continue with savagery and today the Russian regime attacked a neighboring country (Ukraine 24 Feb 2022 with (argument) that the neighbor threatens the Russian state through its alliance with (the West) Her thousand years of history and existence

With my great appreciation for what was mentioned in philosophical books and on the net of discreet writings about Reason and since the French Descartes until today, I see the mind today in a different vision, i. Where it is possible to cut an apple and slaughter a person by appealing to all human values

Today, we justify all our major and minor actions with reason, and claim that our major and minor actions are rational, and we use all the arguments that enable us to (prove) that our statements and decisions are logical and rational

This book is divided into four sections and thirteen chapters

Paert I Chapter One Matches The beginning of the (fiery) talk about the fall of civilization and the West, which dates back historically to the German historian (Oswald Spengler) after the First World War and, the development of the saying today by saying the full beginning of the resounding fall of civilization

Chapter Two Discussion

Chapter Three Three fronts (illusions) fighting civilization, Trying to dispel the fall myth

Part II

Chapter Four The beginning of the brief presentation of the history of civilization starting from the end of the European Middle Ages (by talking about the (Renaissance)

Chapter Five The Renaissance-Sense- The launch is the beauty of existence the meaning of Renaissance

Chapter Six A New Spirit of Civilization The return of the West after the hibernation of the Middle Ages A complete neutralization of theology-Enlightenment attck

Chapter Seven The Power of Rational

Part III

Chapter Eight The Industrial Revolutions

Chapter Nine The bridge between two Civilizations the role of Science-Technology To push civilization towards the highest degree of technical progress in particular

Chapter Ten, Glory to Science and Technology, but Utopia has not been realized

Part IV

Chapter Eleven Meta-Civilization-Pillars

Chapter Twelve, Immortality Prolem

Chapter Thirteen Immortality –Discussion

Conclusion Open qustions

PART I

CHAPTER ONE

Matches

Matches

Doomsday prophets

The Myth of Fall of Civilization

There were many hammers to mourn, but it was achieved and it continues to create a new one

It is Not the fall of civilization, butit is the misery of Western thought

The Fall of Civilization – Tragedy no Hope- Critics

A miserable and hopeless view of the human condition

No civilization has died in history, rather its makers died and, their things remain in the earth and history

Chapter Plan

Twenty Century

General context

Tragic side of the life

The Growth of International Tensions as of political conflicts result

The Tragic ideological conflicts

       Age of Polarization and extremism

       Cold war between two Blocks

The confusion between fall of civilization and fall of ideology

Age of Irrationality

Rise of Populism - -Revolt of Unreason

Twentieth century

Was the twentieth century tragic? Yes, and No

Tragic, it was the era of extremism and blood

Enjoy

Today’s world may be cracked and damaged. This means the problem of modern man and does not necessarily mean the fall of the civilization that he started building over five centuries.

Overview - Impressions of intellectuals about the spirit of the times

Talking about the downfall of civilization as depression and loss of meaning, or a tragic feeling, or self-criticism, or a valid fact in the life of the West or the chatter of literary salons, as the French say? Discussion du Salon or is it a tradition of historians?

Or all together?

I choose the meaning of life as a tragic feeling

Civilization falls apart as things fall apart, life and everything has an end

The sense of life -Psychological Context

People want to live before thinking and searching for meaning of their lives

But the search for meaning is not a luxury, it is to rise above the level of banality

But does this talk have anything to do with our discussion of the contexts of the fall and revival of civilization?

Yes, because the question of meaning was posed in the twentieth century by those people and intellectuals who lived through the tragedies of the century, which some intellectuals in France considered the century of blood (see later) and in Anglo-Saxons, - the century of extremism, polarization, and armed and cold wars.

All these indications were a prelude to claiming the fall

When I was a young man studying at university and looking here and there in the city’s libraries, a translation of the Spanish book «MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO» caught my attention and its title is The Tragic Sense of Life.1954 The tragedy of existence and the tragedies of the twentieth century, itself which contributed with its tragic dimensions to the fall of the meaning of life first and action om man that is mean The fall of Civilization in the broad sense.

There may not be any relationship between the content of the book and the talk about the fall of the West (civilization), but I felt the suggestion still lives in my mind until the moment

This may all be fiction, but the inner meaning of this suggestion is my astonishment at the claim that civilization has fallen into free fall.

Those who took the matter on the fall of civilizations are biased towards the tragic aspect of consideration and analysis, and they are their excuse and they have all the evidence of the correctness of their (intellectual) mood in their consideration.

Anyway, saying the fall of civilization is not a discover or disquisition It is not an innovation. It is a vision belonging to its narrator that can be adopted, discussed, objected to, or marginalized.

We will see how the history came to be inside the mind of The Fall of Civilization thinkers and it is stayed in

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or our pessimism, of physiological or perhaps pathological origin, as much the one as the other, that makes our ideas(¹)

"Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason" (²)

The dependence of emotion or feeling -according to the theory of MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO,

and not on Reason and evidence and critics

This is another tragedy, because starting from feeling or emotion and intuition - which is not always correct - and building opinions and ideas on them is the fate of that deviation from the truth that is supposed to be based on reason, evidence and facts See my book under publication its title Are we our Emotions? 2022

So what is the twentieth century?

The context of the twentieth century was very complex and a mixture of the development of ideas and the emergence of new theories in the pure sciences and the humanities

There was cultural looting, bloody wars # and the Cold War

Peoples tried with screams and anger to demand justice. Countries called the third world worked to prove existence. Some researchers saw the twentieth century as bloody, and others were the century of anger and extremism

# Example the book titled (In French) The Century of blood

See Eric Hobsbawm TheAge of Extreme (1914-19991)

Le Siècle de Sang –Les Vight Guerre (1914-2014)

The Rise of Polarization

In other words, the twentieth century was an example in which the absurd in thought and existence was well represented. It was the era of tragic trend in the language of MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

As for the nature of thinking in the twentieth century, I was impressed by the commentary more than the content of the book itself about» Thinking the Twentieth Century# is a tour de force, a classic study of modern thought by one of the century’s