Beyond War: Building Wisdom Civilization to Rescue Humanity.
This paper presents a comparative civilizational analysis of humanity’s transition from a War Civilization to the emerging Wisdom Civilization. Drawing on the works of Toynbee, Sorokin, Quigley, Huntington, Spengler, and Koneczny, it interprets the present global disorder — marked by the tension bet...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Civilizations Review Vol. 94; no. 94; pp. 25 - 45 |
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International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Spring2026
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