A comparative essay about Europe and China and their civilisations. What constitutes the main characteristics of them? The essays works through the thesis that, simply put, it is cities and language, respectively. For Europe cities, for China language. Without denying both aspects have been important in each of them.
What is culture? is another question that the essay raises, and points towards nature, cultivation, as the best way to grasp the core of this concept. Indeed, the word itself contains a lot of the insight.
I draw on Hegel and Goethe, and try to point to important insights before the onslaught of Modernity.
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