Knights Of Enlightenment

The Knights of Enlightenment believe in the principles of enlightened thinking, so we thought the following works may help you understand what this process entails.

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1. Autonomy of reason

2. Perfectibility and progress

3. Confidence in the ability to discover causality

4. Principles governing nature, man and society

5. Assault on authority

6. Cosmopolitan solidarity of enlightened intellectuals

7. Disgust with nationalism.

The Eighteenth Century was known as the "Age of Enlightenment", where new ideas and new approaches to old institutions were setting the stage. Many great thinkers including Diderot, Voltaire, Descartes, Pascal, Bayle and Montesquieu lead this great movement. It's principles include the true spirit of what is now known as liberalism, which promotes and represents tolerance, justice, liberty, equality and freedom. Never has a movement been so alive as it is now in the present day. The Knights of Enlightenment seek to carry on the struggle for freedom, justice and equality that was started over 300 years ago. As a new order with a classical agenda, we hope you will find our site both interesting and helpful.

Enlightened thinking includes:

*Critical thinking: learning to think for oneself

*Critical Consciencness: the ability to perceive social, political, and economic oppression

and to take action against the oppressive elements of society

*Self-awareness: development of an autonomous self which is able to think and act on its

own initiative.

Enlightened thinking holds the qualities of:

*Seeing through the current social myths and diversions.

*Understanding the necessity of life-long self-education.

*Recognizing the necessity of social action, including discerning what the social situation

requires and creating a program to realize social reform.

*Developing genuine feelings of compassion and regard for one’s fellow human beings.

excerpt from Hermes-Press