The Enlightenment can't be identified with the West: Many prestigious W intellectuals despise it (Romantics, Nietzsche, Heidegger, existentialists, Critical Theorists, postmodernists, nationalists, Greens, theoconservatives, faitheists, many others). https://goo.gl/JLVqPL
The Enlightenment is the West's highest achievement, its modern foundation, and its most inspiring ideal to everyone who suffers under despotism, theocracy, and superstition.
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The West's highest achievement is the idea of subordinating the collective to the individual, and to elevate truth as the highest value....both these things predate Enlightenment by hundreds of years!
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Knock on wood! identified with the East, the Enlightenment is a 'state of supreme happiness, characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness'.
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the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and the Golden Rule.
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