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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I agree that’s true now. But in its origins, can’t the West claim some pride of authorship? Wouldn’t it be good if that was something we taught people to be proud of instead of ashamed of?
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What bullshit. The Enlightenment came from the West. Nowhere else. It didn’t come from everyone in the West. Some opposed it. Some have sought to undo it. But it came from the West. Period.
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You are conflating <things about> the west with the west.
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Don't be silly. Of course the Enlightenment is identified with the "West", and we know why it did not happen in China nor the Islamic world.
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Not "the Enlightenment" in general but modern science & technology underpin & justify superiority of Western civilization:pic.twitter.com/KcWqhm58yW
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Curious about your favorite Asian or African Enlightenment thought pioneers.
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Just because some intellectuals despised it? Virtually nothing so complex gets unanimous approval.
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Are you suggesting that the Enlightenment did not have its origins in the West?
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So how does post facto criticism or rejection of the Enlightenment, in part or in whole, by western thinkers make it not a western thing? Where else would one center it?
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It was still a 'Western' phenomenon: France, Germany, Britain etc. I also am Lumières-sceptic but whatever...
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I just stumbled across Nietzsche calling the Enlightenment a flag with 3 names: Petrarch, Erasmus, Voltaire. A very European long haul.pic.twitter.com/t4zzEZPnOW
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Ok, gotta read the book since your past books have so good and this tweet doesn't make sense to me.
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well, this is nonsense.
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