The Finale of the “Enlightenment Project” for the West and East. Part II. Reformation and Revolution

The paper describes in detail economic and cultural premises for the emergence of “Enlightenment project” European countries, stages, options development project, its impact on international relations during colonial period. also provides examples Eastern societies that have generated quite successful models, which, nevertheless, could not resist military, ideological expansion Western which played one leading roles. In this part (part I see: [Yakovlev, 2023]), attention is drawn to formation a certain set new worldview universals, ideals interests, norms behavior morality arose public life countries 15th–18th centuries. For centuries, people comprehended their accumulated social experience and, as they ongoing events, rethink conditions lives. Outstanding thinkers managed bring together lived generations, found expression works fathers Enlightenment.