[quote=captcha] I’m starting to doubt that the Enlightenment can be enforced upon groups en masse. Voltaire and Rousseau need to come from within.[/quote]
Actually, they had their Enlightenment hundreds of years earlier. Of course the Arabs built on Greek(as well as Chinese and Indian) thought, as all knowledge is cumulative, but their additions made quantum leaps forward in all the sciences. Europe’s Enlightenment was built on Arab thinking much more than Greeks. Of course, this really irks some people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
