What Is Western Civilization?
From the perspective of intellectual and cultural content, Western civilization represents an understanding and acceptance of the following:
From the perspective of intellectual and cultural content, Western civilization represents an understanding and acceptance of the following:
the laws of logic; the concept of causality and, consequently, of a universe ruled by natural laws intelligible to man;
on these foundations, the whole known corpus of the laws of mathematics and science;
on these foundations, the whole known corpus of the laws of mathematics and science;
the individual's self-responsibility based on his free will to choose between good and evil;
the value of man above all other species on the basis of his unique possession of the power of reason;
the value of man above all other species on the basis of his unique possession of the power of reason;
the value and competence of the individual human being and his corollary possession of individual rights, among them the right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness;
the need for limited government and for the individual's freedom from the state;
the need for limited government and for the individual's freedom from the state;
on this entire preceding foundation, the validity of capitalism, with its unprecedented and continuing economic development in terms of division of labor, technological progress, capital accumulation, and rising living standards;
in addition, the importance of visual arts and literature depicting man as capable of facing the world with confidence in his power to succeed, and music featuring harmony and melody.
(The above tweets are all quotations from my essay “Contemporary Education’s Racist Road to Barbarism.” The essay is available at amzn.to/33qbNNj for 99¢.) 
