建构人类新文明形态必须要解决文明的根本性问题——即确保人类文明的持续发展和进步。为什么有些文明能够持续性进步而更多的文明则在历史中消亡或者停滞？这一问题涉及对文明本质的回答。历来对文明本质的问答交织着实体观和进步观两种观念。实体观隐含着文明之间的竞争和冲突，进步观则隐含着文明本身的可持续的知识性发展。从进步观的角度可以发现，人类文明的历史性发展趋势是从暴力性社会向知识性社会的演进。文明的本质就是人类在实践过程中凝结的知识结构，其包括对人与自然认知的智的知识，人类社会内部组织的善的知识，以及体现人类创造性与和谐性结合的美的知识。人类文明进步的本质在于实现历史持续性的知识结构发展，这里要同时回答好李约瑟之谜、诺斯之问和治乱循环难题。构建人类新文明形态的根本在于建立面向智、善、美的可持续的知识性文明范式，其基础在于构建开放、法治和均衡的文明体系。

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In order to construct a new form of human civilization, we must solve the fundamental problem of civilization, that is, to ensure the sustainable development and progress of human civilization. Why can some civilizations continue to progress while more civilizations disappear or stagnate in history? This involves the nature of civilization. There have always been two views on the essence of civilization: entity view and progress view. The view of entity implies the competition and conflict among civilizations, while the view of progress implies the sustainable intellectual development of civilization itself. From the perspective of progress view, it can be found that the historical development trend of human civilization is the evolution from violent society to intellectual society. The essence of civilization is a kind of knowledge structure condensed by human beings in the process of practice, which includes the knowledge of intelligence in the cognition of man and nature, the knowledge of good organization within human society and the knowledge of the beauty that embodies the combination of human creativity and harmony. The essence of the progress of human civilization lies in the realization of the sustainable development of knowledge structure in history. At the same time, we should answer the Mystery of Joseph Needham, the Question of North and solve the Problem of Governance and Chaos Cycle. The foundation of the construction of the new form of human civilization lies in the establishment of sustainable intellectual civilization oriented to wisdom, goodness and beauty, and its foundation lies in the establishment of an open, legal and balanced civilization system.

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