• Victor Davis Hanson: author of the book "Carnage & Culture" ...

    From David P.@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 15 23:30:32 2021
    Victor Davis Hanson: author of the book "Carnage & Culture"
    (Doubleday 2001), published in Great Britain & the Commonwealth
    countries as "Why the West Has Won", in which he argued that
    the military dominance of Western civilization, beginning
    with the ancient Greeks, results from certain fundamental
    aspects of Western culture, such as consensual government,
    a tradition of self-critique, secular rationalism, religious
    tolerance, individual freedom, free expression, free markets,
    & individualism. Hanson's emphasis on cultural exception
    rejects racial explanations for Western military preeminence
    & disagrees as well with environmental or geographical
    determinist explanations such as those put forth by Jared
    Diamond in "Guns, Germs, & Steel" (1997).

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