5 октября 2025

The AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT was a fascinating time when European intellectuals decided that reason
and logic would save the world from superstition and tyranny. Armed with powdered wigs and pointed
feathers, they proudly proclaimed: «Sapere aude!» («Have the courage to use your own mind!»). The irony
is that many of these «luminaries of reason» enthusiastically wrote treatises on freedom, sitting in the cozy
salons of aristocrats, whose privileges were precisely the main obstacle to this very freedom. They
believed in limitless progress, believing that if people understood everything correctly, they would do the
right thing. Subsequent revolutions and wars have dampened this optimism in Europe.
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