I’m not convinced that Europe had more intellectual freedom on average than China, but because of the patchwork of principalities, it certainly had more variation in intellectual freedom than did a China that was at any given time either mostly unified or mostly at war; and all that you need for an intellectual revolution is the existence of a bastion of intellectual freedom somewhere.
I’m not convinced that Europe had more intellectual freedom on average than China, but because of the patchwork of principalities, it certainly had more variation in intellectual freedom than did a China that was at any given time either mostly unified or mostly at war; and all that you need for an intellectual revolution is the existence of a bastion of intellectual freedom somewhere.