is the basis for modern
civilization.
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Answer: Modern civilization The concept of the modern world as distinct from an ancient world of historical and outmoded artifacts rests on a sense that the modern world is primarily the product of relatively recent and revolutionary change.
Explanation:"Modern Civilisation" is, in many ways, a loaded term. In order to truly explain what it is, we must first unpack the word "modern". Within the following, we are taking the commonly accepted anthropological definition of "civilisation" as a social grouping which is settled, hierarchical and employs specific forms of political structure. This is because the words "modern" and "civilisation" often overlap in common parlance, but in order to answer the question they must be separated.
"Modern" brings to mind contemporary technology, forms of government and social structures. However, bound up within all of those is the logic of the "project of modernity" which was the driving philosophical force behind the rapid technological and intellectual expansion of Western Europe following the end of the Renaissance in the 17th Century. This meaning of modernity can be traced back to the writings of Immanuel Kant who was the first thinker to posit that all of the mysteries in the world would reveal themselves under the lens of human reason. Knowledge did not come from God or Church, but from human endeavour. It is this attitude that pervades modernity and everything modern. We can thus say that a "modern civilisation" is one which does not seek its answers from a spiritual authority, but rather seeks to find its own using the scientific method.
This, of course, is an extremely simplified answer and there is a wealth of other interesting angles from which to approach this. These include, but are not limited to, the effect of Western imperialism on the evolution of the terms "modern", "civilisation" and " modern civilisation", an enquiry into the relationship between decolonisation and "modern civilisation" and an analysis of the relationship between globalisation, modern civilisations and non-modern civilisations. There would also be room here to further investigate the philosophical theory behind modernity and how it came to shape civilisations throughout Europe