What is Enlightenment?

Abstract

Despite the prevalence of the term «education» its understanding and interpretation by thinkers ambiguous and even contradictory. And the reason for this, firstly, the depth of the problem, rooted under this concept, and secondly, the consequent complexity of its definitions. Even within classical philosophy permeated by pathos in honor of the celebration of the human and scientific mind, among outstanding educators of his age were thinkers, who noticed the presence of acute contradictions between education and spirituality, knowledge and faith, culture and civilization, the human and the natural, human and divine, human and interpersonal. How to get out of this to «light»? Which light? Where is the path to the light?