Zarkasyi, Hamid Fahmy (2010) Factors Behind the Rise of the West”. Factors Behind the Rise of the West”.

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Abstract

Generally, the emergence of a civilization is traced back through the observation of social, political, cultural and even military factors. Quite a few, not to say none, who approaches the rise of civilization from its fundamental element namely the worldview formation. This approach is important since men intellectual and scientific achievement cannot emerge or develop without the existence of a sophisticated worldview in the society. 1 This methodology is considerably appropriate to sketch the rise of Western civilization because historical facts suggest that prior to the modern ages the Western civilization was tinted by Greek, Christian and Islamic worldviews. This is also buttressed by the fact that the most important aspects of the Renaissance was essentially scientific worldview characterized by an enthusiastic attempt to revive the Greek and Roman past, but at the same time to shift away from the former almost myopic adherence to Christian theology and to move toward more rational way of life. Among those factors ie Greek, Roman, Christian, and Islamic worldview there must be one most pivotal factor that brought about the rise of scientific worldviews in the mind of Western people that resulted in the emergence of the modern Western civilization. It is the disclosure of the main factor that this paper attempts to achieve.

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