A Critique of Western Civilization

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
99-118

Abstract

The western civilization has had great achievements in various fields of science and knowledge, especially applied and technological sciences, which affected these peoples and nations to make a huge leap. And this civilization was inherited from Greek and Roman civilization and followed its materialistic tendencies. Westerners -eastern and western side- have followed many theories and ideologies of capitalism, Marxism, Freudianism, existentialism, Darwinism, and racist nationalism, as well as the sanctification of material science and making it as idolatry, as some thinkers have followed, followed by a reverence for wealth and money. This materialistic trend towards the development of Western civilization and humanism materially and at the expense of the spiritual and moral, and therefore Western civilization failed in the spiritual and moral side and transformed human society into a brutal society, and the result was wars, destruction, fighting, crime, madness, anxiety and the spread of drugs and prostitution throughout the world. This civilization has been criticized by many scholars and intellectuals for its theories and intellectual and material propositions. The man became a stranger in his world anxiety distorted thought and spirit weak faith, but seeks his happiness from the power of science more than worship God, and this naturally led to the relapse of humanity and the decline of civilization, which some intellectuals described the ominous and brutal civilization. There have been many calls for the necessity of ridding mankind of the badness of this civilization, its deviations and its delusions, and the return of man to his natural and spiritual and material balance after he was hit by this civilization and drifted by horrendous material delinquency and its miserable and changed its original nature.

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Qadir Ahmed Younis, A., & عبد. (2025). A Critique of Western Civilization. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 50(811), 99–118. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2020.166304