Westerse kultuur, ook bekend as Westerse beskawing, Europese beskawing, Westerse kultuur, of Westerse samelewing, sluit die diverse erfenisse van sosiale norme, etiese waardes, tradisionele gebruike, geloofstelsels, politieke stelsels, artefakte en tegnologieë van die Westerse wêreld in. Antropologies verwys die term "Westers" na die klassieke erakultuur wat in Antieke Griekeland en Antieke Rome ontstaan het, en later na verskillende wêrelddele versprei het.[1] Die kern van die Westerse beskawing, breedweg omskryf, word gevorm deur die gekombineerde grondslae van die Grieks-Romeinse beskawing en die Christendom. Terwyl Westerse kultuur 'n breë konsep is, en nie verband hou met 'n streek met vaste lede of geografiese beperkings nie, hou dit gewoonlik verband met die kulture van lande met historiese bande met 'n Europese land of 'n aantal Europese lande, of met die verskeidenheid kulture binne Europa self.[2]
Terwyl die Fenisiese stadstate tradisioneel vermy is as 'n hoofbron van die Westerse beskawing ten gunste van vroeë Egeïese kulture, het die Fenisiese stadstate die Westerse beskawing gestimuleer en bevorder.[19] Die uitbreiding van die Griekse kultuur na die Hellenistiese wêreld van die oostelike Middellandse See het gelei tot 'n sintese tussen Griekse en Nabye-Oosterse kulture;[20] groot vooruitgang in letterkunde, ingenieurswese en wetenskap; en het die kultuur verskaf vir die uitbreiding van die vroeë Christendom en die Griekse Nuwe Testament.[21][22][23] Hierdie tydperk het oorvleuel met en is gevolg deur Rome, wat sleutelbydraes in die reg, regering, ingenieurswese en politieke organisasie gemaak het.[24]
Westerse kultuur het voortgegaan om te ontwikkel met die kerstening van die Europese samelewing gedurende die Middeleeue, die hervormings wat veroorsaak is deur die Middeleeuse renaissances, die invloed van die Islamitiese wêreld via Al-Andalus en Sisilië (insluitend die oordrag van tegnologie uit die Ooste, en Latynse vertalings van Arabiese tekste oor wetenskap en filosofie deur Griekse en Hellenies-beïnvloed Islamitiese filosowe),[25][26][27] en die Italiaanse Renaissance soos Griekse geleerdes wat na die val van Konstantinopel gevlug het, klassieke tradisies en filosofie gebring het.[28] Hierdie groot verandering vir nie-Westerse lande en hul mense het 'n ontwikkeling in modernisering in daardie lande beleef.[29] Middeleeuse Christendom word gekrediteer met die skepping van die moderne universiteit,[30][31] die moderne hospitaalstelsel,[32] wetenskaplike ekonomie,[33][34] en natuurreg (wat later die skepping van internasionale reg sou beïnvloed).[35] Europese kultuur het ontwikkel met 'n komplekse reeks filosofie, Middeleeuse skolastiek, mistiek en Christelike en sekulêre humanisme.[36] Rasionele denke het ontwikkel deur 'n lang tydperk van verandering en vorming, met die eksperimente van die Verligting en deurbrake in die wetenskappe. Tendense wat moderne Westerse samelewings definieer het, sluit in die konsep van politieke pluralisme, individualisme, prominente subkulture of teenkulture (soos New Age-bewegings) en toenemende kulturele sinkretisme as gevolg van globalisering en menslike migrasie.
↑Hanson, Victor Davis (18 Desember 2007). Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power (in Engels). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN978-0-307-42518-8. the term "Western" — refer to the culture of classical antiquity that arose in Greece and Rome; survived the collapse of the Roman Empire; spread to western and northern Europe; then during the great periods of exploration and colonization of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries expanded to the Americas, Australia and areas of Asia and Africa; and now exercises global political, economic, cultural, and military power far greater than the size of its territory or population might otherwise suggest.
↑Spielvogel, Jackson J. (2006). Western Civilization (in Engels). Wadsworth. ISBN978-0-534-64602-8. people in these early civilizations viewed themselves as subjects of states or empires, not as members of Western civilization. With the rise of Christianity during the Late Roman Empire, however, peoples in Europe began to identify themselves as part of a civilization different from others, such as that of Islam, leading to a concept of a Western civilization different from other civilizations. In the fifteenth century, Renaissance intellectuals began to identify this civilization not only with Christianity but also with the intellectual and political achievements of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Important to the development of the idea of a distinct Western civilization were encounters with other peoples. Between 700 and 1500, encounters with the world of Islam helped define the West. But after 1500, as European ships began to move into other parts of the world, encounters with peoples in Asia, Africa, and the Americas not only had an impact on the civilizations found there but also affected how people in the West defined themselves. At the same time, as they set up colonies, Europeans began to transplant a sense of Western identity to other areas of the world, especially North America and parts of Latin America, that have come to be considered part of Western civilization
↑Spielvogel, Jackson J. (2016). Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume I: To 1715 (Cengage Learning uitg.). Cengage Learning. p. 156. ISBN978-1-305-63347-6.
↑Neill, Thomas Patrick (1957). Readings in the History of Western Civilization, Volume 2 (Newman Press uitg.). p. 224.
↑O'Collins, Gerald; Farrugia, Maria (2003). Catholicism: The Story of Catholic Christianity. Oxford University Press. p. v (preface). ISBN978-0-19-925995-3.
↑Karl Heussi, Kompendium der Kirchengeschichte, 11. Auflage (1956), Tübingen (Germany), pp. 317–319, 325–326
↑McNeill, William H. (2010). History of Western Civilization: A Handbook (University of Chicago Press uitg.). University of Chicago Press. p. 204. ISBN978-0-226-56162-2.
↑Caltron J.H Hayas, Christianity and Western Civilization (1953), Stanford University Press, p. 2: That certain distinctive features of our Western civilization—the civilization of western Europe and of America—have been shaped chiefly by Judaeo–Christianity, Catholic and Protestant.
↑Jose Orlandis, 1993, "A Short History of the Catholic Church", 2nd edn. (Michael Adams, Trans.), Dublin:Four Courts Press, ISBN 1851821252, preface, see [1]Geargiveer 2 Januarie 2023 op Wayback Machine, accessed 8 December 2014. p. (preface)
↑Noble, Thomas F. X. (1 Januarie 2013). Western civilization : beyond boundaries (7th uitg.). Boston, MA. p. 107. ISBN978-1-133-60271-2. OCLC858610469.{{cite book}}: AS1-onderhoud: plek sonder uitgewer (link)
↑Marvin Perry; Myrna Chase; James Jacob; Margaret Jacob; Jonathan W Daly (2015). Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume I: To 1789. Cengage Learning. p. 105. ISBN978-1-305-44548-2.
↑Hengel, Martin (2003). Judaism and Hellenism : studies in their encounter in Palestine during the early Hellenistic period. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers. ISBN978-1-59244-186-0. OCLC52605048.
↑Porter, Stanley E. (2013). Early Christianity in its Hellenistic context. Volume 2, Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism : social and literary contexts for the New Testament. Leiden: Brill. ISBN978-9004234765. OCLC851653645.
↑Rüegg, Walter: "Foreword. The University as a European Institution", in: A History of the University in Europe. Vol. 1: Universities in the Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-36105-2, pp. xix–xx
↑Cf. Jeremy Waldron (2002), God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), ISBN 978-0-521-89057-1, pp. 189, 208
↑Sailen Debnath, 2010, "Secularism: Western and Indian", New Delhi, India:Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, ISBN 8126913665.Sjabloon:Page needed