ABSTRACT
Cultures are living entities, carried by living human beings, and subject to the same laws of life, birth and death, struggle or concord, conflict or dialogue. The two alternative models exist. This chapter focuses on cultural interaction which is the expression of the balance of power between cultures. The power of Greek Logos was behind the inter-cultural dialogue between Greek philosophy and nascent Islam. The power of the Transcendence was behind the intercultural relation between Islamic sciences and philosophy from one side, and medieval scholasticism on the other side. The power of convergence was behind the Andalusian symbiosis among Islamic, Jewish and Christian cultures in Spain. The power of domination was, and maybe is, behind the cultural interaction between Europe in modern times and Asia, Africa and Latin America since the Geographic Discoveries by the capital C of the small cs, from the centre to the periphery.
