Contents: introduction chapter I

CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION…………………
CHAPTER I.
2. Liberals – the successors and continuators of the enlightenment thinking about man …………………………….3
CHAPTER II.
2.1 Communitarians the critics of the enlightenment view of man……. 8
3 The Concept of Enlightenment…………….. …………11
CONCLUSION………………………………………………… 28
REFERENCES………………………………………………… 29

INTRODUCTION
On May 6, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a meeting on measures to improve the system of teaching foreign languages. Several areas of knowledge are determined every year in Uzbekistan, the development of which is given priority attention. This year physics and foreign languages ​​have become such areas.“The time has come to create in Uzbekistan a new system of teaching foreign languages, which will become a solid foundation for the future. Since we set ourselves the goal of building a competitive state, from now on, graduates of schools, lyceums, colleges and universities must be fluent in at least two foreign languages. This strict requirement should become the main criterion for the work of the head of each education institution”, Shavkat Mirziyoyev said.¹
From its very outset, the Enlightenment period would inspire different opinions and attitudes – ranging from the radically positive to decidedly negative.
Quite clearly, much depended in this respect on those who were formulating
these opinions, and on the standpoints they were assuming. Division lines
separated those that understood the Enlightenment creed and were willing
to accept and implement it, not only from those who did not understand it, but also from those who had such an understanding and yet for various reasons would prove incapable or unwilling to accept the creed. In all of these groups, signifcant roles have been played by philosophers more or less consciously identifying with the different churches and denominations of Christianity. This can be demonstrated, on the one hand, by reference to Immanuel Kant as the apologist of the Enlightenment (his Lutheran associations are beyond dispute), and on the other hand, by pointing to the author of the Enlightenment’s apparent epitaph – Josephe de Maistre (his Catholic associations are no more disputable). In my considerations, I shall not refer to these relatively distant thinkers, but rather to contemporary philosophers, who may hold a common belief that many important features of the contemporary culture of the Western world originated in the Enlightenment period, though they differ signifcantly when it comes to the positive or negative evaluation of those particular features. The lists of the former and the latter are both long and diverse. Therefore, the philosophical schools and the names associated with them should not be seen as fully representative representations of the broad pro- and anti-Enlightenment formations. Two of such representative groups comprise liberals – being the defenders of the Enlightenment heritage – and libertarians – belonging to its critics.