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Հիմնարար հայագիտություն=Fundamental Armenology
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Levon Shant’s Arguments On Independence As National-Spiritual And Civilization Factor
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Translated from the Armenian by Syuzanna Chraghyan
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Levon Shant ; independence ; civilization ; national factor ; national-political identity ; sovereignty of the state
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The article analyzes the political-philosophical concept of Levon Shant, a prominent Armenian thinker of the XIX-XX centuries. Shant substantiates the idea of polycentrism denying monocentrism in intercivilization relations. He believes all civilizations are displayed by individual uniqueness conditioned by people’s national and cultural originality. He stresses the national factor which reveals more profound qualities. According to the Armenian scholar’s theory, the nation is “an organism producing civilization’’ and the nationality is the fundamental principle to identify people. He refuses the aspects according to which the national and nations disappear during the process of civilization. On the contrary, the development of civilization is the key condition for nations’ prosperity, independence, equality of rights, manifestation of national and political identity, as well as for the solution to national problems.