#2 - What it means to be Enlightened

ENLIGHTENMENT IS: first, a mental activity, engaged in by a person committed to the values of truth and validity as the sovereign values of reason. He reflects critically and creatively and, motivated by these sovereign values, goes to the places to which his arguments take him; he is not mentally passive, as are all those who live in the grip of a habit of mind. Secondly, without fear and therefore freely, he places the fruits of his thought in the public domain.

Basically, to be enlightened is to discover education for yourself and to form your own thoughts and to act on them when you contribute to society. I feel all of our modern issues could be solved with proper education and collaboration.

I drew my knowledge from many books but below I have listed everything about Enlightenment I gained from Alexander Brodie’s The Scottish Enlightenment.