“And although I (…) understand all mysteries and all knowledge and have no charity, I am nothing.”/First Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians, 13 , 2 / Each of the four books of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels discusses an aspect of human nature. The language of the discussions is rather satirical than serious. The first book concerns the physical aspect, the trip to Brobdingnag focuses on “Homo politicus”, the political man. The third book concerns the intellect, while in the land of the Houyhnhnms we can “meet” the moral man. Now I will talk about the aspect of the intellectual aspect in the figurative language of the third book. The first and most fundamental thing to clarify in relation to Laputa's part is the Enlightenment, which was the first clearly defined manifestation of modernity. Swift wrote in opposition to the Enlightenment and as an “enemy” of modernity. Reading it now, at the beginning, if we can see the 21st century, perhaps among all these our era can be a catastrophic conclusion. There are four points I need to write about. Among these the first is Rationalism and Cartesianism. In connection with these tendencies we can note a radical tendency to abstract truth into purely intellectual concepts. Rationalism can also be characterized by a courageous rejection of the experience and wisdom of the past. The next trend is experimental and theoretical science, spawned by Bacon and Galileo, later claimed by Newton and propagated by the Royal Society in England. Here the secularization of society and human values ​​began. He proclaimed great promises to the people such as the control of nature, the abolition of all mysteries, and (at least implicitly) the abolition of religion. The third disc... half the sheet... future. So their secret lay not in their prophetic genius, but only in the wide-open eyes of their age. That's why their utopia is terrifyingly accurate, and that's why they managed to hit the target so precisely. BIBLIOGRAPHY The list of works I used to collect the most important discussion points (mine or "borrowed" from the authors indicated below). Holt Monaco, Samuel. "The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver." In: I. Robert A. Greenberg, ed. II. William Bowman Piper. The Writings of Jonathan Swift.,. WW Norton & Company, Inc, 1973.Rawson, C.J. “Gulliver and the Gentle Reader.” In: I. Robert A. Greenberg, ed. II. William Bowman Piper. The Writings of Jonathan Swift., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1973. Williams, Kathleen. "The Fantasy World of Laputa." In: edited by, Richard Gravil. “Swift: Gulliver's Travels. A notebook.» The Macmillan Press, Hong Kong, 1994.