2.2 Muhimmin Ma'anar Tunanin Yammacin Duniya
2.2 Essence of Western Thought
Samuel P. Huntington ya ambata a cikin littafinsa, The Clash of Civilization, cewa rabuwa tsakanin ikon ruhaniya da na duniya na ɗaya daga cikin manyan siffofin wayewar Yamma. Wannan rabuwa ana ɗaukarta a matsayin ainihin jigon wayewar Yamma. Huntington ya ce, “Wannan rarraba iko ya taimaka sosai wajen ci gaban ’yanci a Yamma.” Ya kuma ce, “A tarihi, asalin al’adar Amurka an bayyana ta ta fuskar al’ada ta gadon wayewar Yamma, kuma ta fuskar siyasa ta ƙa’idodin akidar Amurka waɗanda Amurkawa suka yarda da su gaba ɗaya: ’yanci, dimokuradiyya, son kai, daidaito a gaban doka, tsarin mulki bisa kundin tsari, mallakar dukiya.” Huntington ya rubuta cewa, “Turai, kamar yadda Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ya faɗa, ita ce ‘tushen—tushe na musamman’ na ‘ra’ayoyin ’yancin mutum, dimokuradiyyar siyasa, mulkin doka, haƙƙin ɗan adam, da ’yancin al’adu.... Waɗannan ra’ayoyin Turai ne, ba na Asiya ba, ko na Afirka, ko na Gabas ta Tsakiya ba, sai dai idan an karɓe su.’” Sannan Huntington ya ci gaba da cewa, “Waɗannan ne ke sa wayewar Yamma ta zama ta musamman, kuma wayewar Yamma tana da daraja ba saboda ta duniya ce ba, a’a saboda ta musamman ce.” Philippe Nemo ya ce a littafinsa, What is the West? (Faransanci: Qu'est-ce que I'Occident?) cewa, “A zahiri, wayewar Yamma na iya bayyana kanta, a kusan dukkan lokuta, ta fuskar ƙasar kundin tsarin mulki, dimokuradiyya, ’yancin tunani, hankali mai suka, kimiyya, da tattalin arziki na ’yanci wanda ya dogara da ƙa’idar mallakar dukiya.”