Western political culture

In western tradition, people used to call western culture "Christian culture" or "Christian civilization". This is because western culture has three sources; The ancient Greek civilization, represented by Socrates and Aristotle, developed into the later scientific tradition; Ancient Hebrew civilization and Judaism originated from the fear of God, which led to the concept of religious original sin. The legal civilization of ancient Rome developed into a modern legal concept. These three civilizations are summarized in Christianity, and a huge cultural system has been built in the west in the form of religious belief.

Democracy, science and God are the three elements of western culture. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the ancestors of western culture, all talked about democracy and science. Socrates was hanged by democracy, and Aristotle was not only a philosopher, thinker, but also a scientist. God is a hypothesis put forward to solve basic problems that science and philosophy cannot prove. Newton can't live without this hypothesis.

The ancient civilization of China did not talk about democracy and science, but only emphasized hierarchy, loyalty and filial piety, and discriminated against science. Superstition is the magic weapon for China civilization to solve basic problems. The three elements of ancient civilization in China are hierarchy, loyalty and filial piety and superstition.