The concept of The Enlightenment does not go back any farther.
People here think of it as a self conscious intellectual movement beginning around the beginning of the 18th Century or even 1688, and running until the day after tomorrow here.
It was and is a figment of Gay's imagination.
Similarly for what I have called the Fifth Century Enlightenment, once again, a creation of modern classical scholars, having some elements of truth, but a whole lot wrong about the whole idea.
The folks who won the wars between Athens and Sparta were the Spartans, the non democrats, the unenlightened ones. That is what is called the judgment of history.
It was and is a figment of Gay's imagination.
Similarly for what I have called the Fifth Century Enlightenment, once again, a creation of modern classical scholars, having some elements of truth, but a whole lot wrong about the whole idea.
The folks who won the wars between Athens and Sparta were the Spartans, the non democrats, the unenlightened ones. That is what is called the judgment of history.
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