The enlightenment as a unified event exclusively across Europe is missing a lot. Scholarship is very much identifying more complexity here and the idea that liberal democracy can be assigned to Europe and nowhere else is falling apart.
This is why it is better to use the actual names of the ideas rather than describing them with a questionable provenance.
"Liberal democracy" is a much better term than "Western values".
This is why it is better to use the actual names of the ideas rather than describing them with a questionable provenance.
"Liberal democracy" is a much better term than "Western values".