Age of Enlightenment, The Rights of Man....a very good read, one of the best, for it describes what has profoundly changed the politics, culture & gov'ts of western world for good.
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And the counter enlightenment movement of religious romanticism, not to say there isn't common ground where both heart & reason, thought & imagination cannot be enjoined, with respect to many older traditions, memes still carried simultaneously from out of the past. These older traditions passed down from many civilizations vs the modern, themselves are a legacy & prized possessions, representing long ages of our evolution of thought & morality which to many extent we can all agree. |
