ABSTRACT

Some cultures, like the Graeco-Roman and the Western, have been able to make such a shift several times; some others could not. The cultures continued to live and to pass through the recurrent rhythm studied; either perished and disappeared, or were doomed to a stagnant and value becoming a mere "survival" or "object of history," instead of being its creative subject. The more, that some cultures never reach an integrated level from this standpoint, while some others like the Brahmanic culture of India, have remained in the Ideational phase far longer than either the Graeco-Roman or the Western cultures. Even the number of unintegrated, eclectically mixed combinations of the Ideational and Sensate culture elements is enormous. In Ideational or Idealistic or Sensate cultures, these compartments articulate Ideational or Idealistic or Sensate systems of truth and reality. Art and philosophy, science and forms of social organization of a sensate supersystem are articulations of the sensate system of truth and reality.