(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?