ENLIGHTENMENT

ENLIGHTENMENT can be defined as:  the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.

WTF does that mean?


The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th to 19th centuries. The Enlightenment emerged out of a European intellectual and scholarly movement known as Renaissance humanism. Wikipedia

ENLIGHTENMENT was a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

INDIVIDUALISM is the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant; it is a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.

It is this concept of INDIVIDUALISM that is the foundation of AMERICAN FREEDOMS...

Philosophers and Intellectuals write or talk about it but AMERICANS LIVE IT...