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论及20世纪上半叶的思辨历史哲学,我们通常想到的是斯宾格勒(Osward Spengler)的《西方的没落》(The Decline of the West)或汤因比(Arnold Toynbee)的《历史研究》(A Study of History),却忽略了克里斯托弗·道森(Christopher Dawson)这位被遗忘的“20世纪伟大天主教历史学家”。~①面对20世纪上半叶世界格局的巨变以及越来越严重的世俗化倾向,这位天主教历史学家借鉴社会学研究方法,从天主教的角度反思西方近代文明,系统论述了天主教对西方文明的
With reference to the speculative philosophy of history in the first half of the twentieth century, what we usually think of is Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West or Arnold Toynbee’s Historical Study “(A Study of History), but neglected Christopher Dawson, the forgotten” great Catholic historian of the 20th century. " In the face of the drastic change in the world and the increasingly secular tendencies in the first half of the 20th century, this Catholic historian, drawing on the sociological research methods, reflects on the modern Western civilization from a Catholic perspective and discusses systematically Catholic Civilized