Book Club on Yik Yak | Even when Enlightenment thinkers did manage to explicitly state that they learned from China, Islamic, or indigenous societies, there is a tendency among later historians to argue that they didn’t actually mean it and were “confused.”

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Even when Enlightenment thinkers did manage to explicitly state that they learned from China, Islamic, or indigenous societies, there is a tendency among later historians to argue that they didn’t actually mean it and were “confused.”

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Of course, in that age it was rather difficult to credit any useful knowledge to the “savage races” without stirring up controversy. (as it happened with Sinophile Christian Wolff) [Reading Graeber’s The Dawn of Everything]

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