The Legacy of Enlightenment
...legacy incorporates issues of the urban and cosmopolitan humanistic tradition throughout history. The opposing strand was counter enlightenment which constituted... ?Introduction Enlightenment was a broad, widespread intellectual revolution that rocked western culture from the mid 17th to 18th centuries in regards to the growing scientific innovations, reason, freedom and ideals of cosmopolitan modernity. Also were individual freedom of conscience and expression, equality, human rights, universality, secular values and democracy. The successes and deficits, reactions and responses of the early radical, average and high enlightenment continue to shape the most important issues today. The enlightenment...