Certainly, through its legacy of science and reason, the Enlightenment established the basis for two centuries of Western -- American and European -- hegemony over the definition of civilization.
Once again the secular and democratic west, identified with the legacy of the Enlightenment – reason, individual autonomy, freedom of speech – has been called upon to subdue its perennially backward "other": Islam.
She cites the organizational culture of the UN, combined with diplomacy's legacy of male dominance, as reasons why the organization can be a bad workplace for women.
In a similar way, even though Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney weren't culture warriors or evangelical Christians, in the popular imagination their legacy of incompetence has become a reason to reject social conservatism as well.
Spills last summer from pipelines in the Midwest owned by Enbridge, the company behind Northern Gateway, were scarcely a public-relations triumph.To many critics the broader environmental legacy of the tar sands is reason enough to halt the whole endeavour.
And while Australia has made sure that the uranium it exports is not used for the manufacture of nuclear weapons, Mudd says the proliferation of these weapons, along with the legacy of radioactive waste, should be reason enough for anyone to stay away from uranium mining.
Jessie: We want to continue the legacy of people who are the reason we do what we're doing.
"The type of absolute faith that people had in reason, a legacy of the Enlightenment, has been altered--not abandoned, but altered," Ellenson said.
While advocates at the Sikh Coalition push for better education about their religion and nonviolent, cross-cultural outreach as a means to stop the uptick in violence toward Sikhs in the US, at least one American Sikh sees the legacy of the kirpan as a reason to arm up as a more direct method of deterrence.
While advocates at the Sikh Coalition push for better education about their religion and non-violent, cross-cultural outreach as a means to stop the uptick in violence toward Sikhs in the US, at least one American Sikh sees the legacy of the kirpan as a reason to arm up as a more direct method of deterrence.
