a brief consideration on the east-west identity of our today's world

the basic question of the present article is about the world in which we dwell .it will be indicated that the essential character of this world is its east-west orientation, which appears in different aspects of our life: in our geographical understanding and directions, in politics, in ideologies that push politics ahead, in history of culture and finally even in the history itself. this historicity of east-west orientation in the world has four aspects. firstly, it is made by modern human. secondly, its root goes back to the christian world view of the middle ages and an important theological theme has been arisen from it at that time. thirdly, in the modern understanding of history the christianeast-oriented theological-historical conceptionhas been turned over to make a eurocentric world view. finally, the east-west framework has been turned into a schema within which the history and its important events areinterpreted;examples of it will be given from jaspers, hegel and hölderlin.in contrast to such a eurocentric view, goethe's essentially unificationistic stand will be presented.