The Process of Human Enlightening: Reflections from the History of Philosophy

Purpose of this paper is to highlight the major contributions in the process of human enlightening by looking into the roots of philosophy from Greeks through the modern western philosophers. From the outset this paper becomes a brief note on human effort of broadening and strengthening his understandings about physical and metaphysical aspects of life. Starting from ‘Greeks awakening’ and going through different religious contributions, this paper, then, focuses on the enlightenment movement of the West. Moreover, in the end, it gives a glimpse of counter enlightenment― a movement against the essence of enlightenment.