汤因比的文明整体观及其当代价值

汤因比的《历史研究》的基本前提之一是,历史即文明,文明是由政治、经济和文化三方面构成的有机整体,其中文化是文明的核心和灵魂。汤因比的文明整体观尽管凸显文化的地位和功能,具有“文化决定论”的倾向,但它对理论和现实都有指导意义:理论上为我们确立了新的发展观;实践上提醒我们不论是进行现代化建设还是参与全球化的进程,都要注意政治、经济和文化三者间的平衡发展,不能厚此薄彼。

Toynbee's View of Civilization and Its Values

One of the premises of Toynbee's work A Study of History is that history is civilization itself,and an integrated organism that consists of politics,economics and culture,with culture as the core and soul of the three.Toynbee thought that the development of economics and politics could not reflect the development of social reality.The development of society is the development of people's culture and the improvement of people's mental realm.Although this viewpoint may have some tendency of cultural determinism,it has guiding significance in both theory and practice.It establishes a new view of development for us in theory,and in practice,it also points out that we must keep a development balance between politics,economics and culture for our modernizatoin construction and involvement in globalization.