Greatness
A major of civilization is not the achievements from monuments, culture or any intellectual, but greatness is how we treat, respect and take care the weakest amount us. In 365 in Nicea, the west take the path which define what type of civilization, before the Authoritarian tendency of Persia and Rome, the absolutist of the Middle East Religions, the Greek democracy Elitism, but what Nicea accomplished, crated the Proto-Feudal economy eventually the Capitalistic System. Buy deigning the Jews to own Slaves, yes in Judaism the master had the right to free the slave , but he will be consider a Jew. The New Developed Christian Religion did not one, the consequence was, since the economic system in the period and more in Rome based on Slaves. The Jewish land owner can not competed with free labor from a slave work. Austine in the City God, base on Plato Republic created a political structure the every one belong to some one, the lords to the king, the peasant to lords and the outsiders, the Jews to the King.
The second event from Nicea was the legitimization of power, the new Christian Religion did not required the circumcision of the Hebrew tradition but proclaim a new law in the process they become the new self chosen appointed in the process legitimize power as divine right affirmed by the new Christian religion power. The tradition of the divine was invoke not just by the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, Islam, and Luther Reformation was a not revolution but request to be to past the purity of what Luther bias of his time of what Christianity, a reactionary force.
The holocaust born in Nicea, but putting the Jews outside, when the community of Worms rejected Luther, the Anti-Semitic spread from Crusades, the Ghettos of Venice and Islam own challenge because the Jews did not accepted the New Messiah, not like Christianity, the Messiah was sacrifice and hence a new Religion was created, Islam needed actual acknowledgment from the Jews which did not get to legitimize the divine right.
The tradition was past into the secular world, where this absolutes hypothesis like Authority Market of the 19 Century Capitalism and collapse in 1920ś another Authoritarian strands, Fascisms born in the Roman Catholic Church. Italian Mussolini and Franco Spain, the Nazi the hybrid of the Catholic Church and Luther, of course the Soviet Union, the Manager paradise in the name of the oppress working class could not escape the Authoritarian tradition of the West.
Our failure is not recognize the assumptions, our free marketers which assume our individual interest will not created self destruction and the crams of a table will be diluted into society.
Especially, Humans we have prove how creative we can be in self-destruction Only when actual pain we stop and think the consequence, some times. Today as we have found again, the we need to have a middle ground between need of community and individuals, and crumbs never reach.