David Yum. Research on human understanding. David Yum

Enlightenment is a period when faith in a person, in the possibilities of his mind reached previously unprecedented heights. One of those who approved this thought first in the minds of the intellectual elite, and then in mass ideas about the significance of man in the world, was the Scottish philosopher David Hoyum. Cognition begins with experience, he said confidently. So, a person is subject to a person. From the individual experience of many people, the experience of mankind is formed. In our century, no one doubt that progress depends on a person and on the collective efforts of society. It’s all the more interesting to find out how it all began...