Is the role of civilization in history progressive or retrogressive?
Of course, civilization has played a progressive role in history. It should be said that the progress of history has promoted the progress of civilization. The two are interdependent. Only when society develops can the level of civilization be improved. But the so-called level of civilization here may have something to do with. People in ancient times thought that the degree of civilization was different. What we think is civilized now may not be civilized in the eyes of the ancients. In the eyes of the ancients, what we thought was cruel at that time was actually very civilized. The present human civilization basically refers to the emergence promoted by western science and technology since modern times. Science, technology and culture do not necessarily represent the mainstream of human history and civilization.