Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?

[xpastor]

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.