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THE
CIVILIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
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I must say at the outset that I think in terms which are
different from the ones that have dominated the public
discourse in our country for a century and longer. I
think in terms of civilizations, and not territorial
states. It is not that I do not believe in the validity
of the concept of the nation-state as an organizing
principle in the economic and political field. I do. But
I do not regard it as adequate for defining the nature of
our enterprise and therefore the obligation of our state
which must flow from a definition of its nature. Indeed,
I believe that it is our failure to view ourselves as a
civilization and to formulate the tasks for our state
accordingly that lies behind many of the problems we
face.
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