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Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?

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Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
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Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 11:25 am
Has modern society benefitted from the enlightenment? If so, in what ways has it benefitted?
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RE: Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 11:26 am
Already flooding the forum with idiocy...nice of you to share with others.
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RE: Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 11:56 am
(November 24, 2013 at 11:25 am)I and I Wrote: Has modern society benefitted from the enlightenment? If so, in what ways has it benefitted?

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RE: Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 12:04 pm
(November 24, 2013 at 11:25 am)I and I Wrote: Has modern society benefitted from the enlightenment? If so, in what ways has it benefitted?
Isn't modern society a product of this enlightenment?

Had it not been for the enlightenment, we'd still be in... the middle ages... but we wouldn't call them that.. we'd call them something else.
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Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 12:14 pm
(November 24, 2013 at 12:04 pm)pocaracas Wrote:
(November 24, 2013 at 11:25 am)I and I Wrote: Has modern society benefitted from the enlightenment? If so, in what ways has it benefitted?
Isn't modern society a product of this enlightenment?

Had it not been for the enlightenment, we'd still be in... the middle ages... but we wouldn't call them that.. we'd call them something else.

I am referring to philosophy or ways of thinking about ourselves. Have the ideas of the enlightenment made mankind better at explaining who we are as Individuals?
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RE: Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 12:20 pm
sure!
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RE: Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 12:22 pm
(November 24, 2013 at 11:56 am)Chas Wrote:
(November 24, 2013 at 11:25 am)I and I Wrote: Has modern society benefitted from the enlightenment? If so, in what ways has it benefitted?

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Also democracy and tolerance.
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RE: Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 12:23 pm
(November 24, 2013 at 12:14 pm)I and I Wrote: I am referring to philosophy or ways of thinking about ourselves. Have the ideas of the enlightenment made mankind better at explaining who we are as Individuals?

The answer is subjective. What one man deems enlightenment, another deems as folly. This conversation is a circle jerk from the word go.
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Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 12:35 pm
(November 24, 2013 at 12:23 pm)Cinjin Wrote:
(November 24, 2013 at 12:14 pm)I and I Wrote: I am referring to philosophy or ways of thinking about ourselves. Have the ideas of the enlightenment made mankind better at explaining who we are as Individuals?

The answer is subjective. What one man deems enlightenment, another deems as folly. This conversation is a circle jerk from the word go.

The word and it's connotations have been used by many historians. The manner in which it is commonly used is what I am referring to. Has our ways if thinking about ourselves made us better human beings?
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RE: Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?
November 24, 2013 at 12:35 pm
(November 24, 2013 at 12:23 pm)Cinjin Wrote:
(November 24, 2013 at 12:14 pm)I and I Wrote: I am referring to philosophy or ways of thinking about ourselves. Have the ideas of the enlightenment made mankind better at explaining who we are as Individuals?

The answer is subjective. What one man deems enlightenment, another deems as folly. This conversation is a circle jerk from the word go.
While it is true that "enlightenment" by itself is a subjective term, when it is used with a definite article THE enlightenment, it is understood to mean the social and philosophical ideas put forward by the leading thinkers of the 18th century along with the late 17th century: people like Locke, Voltaire, Hume. etc.

IMO the Enlightenment did more to civilize humanity than all the preceding eras, and it even made the Christian god a nicer deity than he had formerly been.
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