THE CULT OF REASON, KNOWLEDGE, AND EDUCATION – THE MOST IMPORTANT VALUE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The paper analyzes the educational views of philosophers, founders of the pedagogical course, writers – the Enlightenment. And Russian and European Enlightenment thinkers believed that to solve the problems of society can be improved through training and education. Guarantor of such transformations is called an enlightened monarch. History has proven the validity of this theory in practice by the example of the Western monarchs and Catherine II of Russia. The core values of this era was the belief in the omnipotence of reason, social progress, ethics and moral categories.
Keywords: social progress, values, priorities, education
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