Civilization

As the premise of his treatise, De Francisci, following up on an idea 
from Spengler, makes the appropriate morphological distinction between culture and civilization.
 Culture, both as an intellectualistic phenomenom, as well as refinement
 of the material conditions of the life of a people, has nothing to 
share with civilization, reality.
De Fransisci writes this very profound passage:
Civilization is not only a manifestation of the prevalent intellectual activities but the complex and concrete expression of all the energies of the spirit: it is not only the ruler of man in his exterior nature, but is at the same time the dominion of man over his own human nature, the awareness of coordination with other men, of subordination to a certain hierarchical order, and of dependence on a supreme, divine and transcendent power.
== Media ==
Pietro De Francisci on The Spirit of Roman Civilization. [Spirito della civilita romana, 1940]
== Branching ==
* See: Culture.
* Related: Criticism of historiography.