The phrase "as enlightenment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are comparing or relating something to the concept of enlightenment, often in philosophical or spiritual discussions.
Example: "She approached the situation as enlightenment, seeking to understand rather than to judge."
Alternatives: "in the spirit of enlightenment" or "as a form of enlightenment."
Some people use music as an escape, others as enlightenment.
With other beliefs crumbling, many seek to return to what they piously describe as "Enlightenment values".
The first analyses of the human genome have resulted in as much perplexity as enlightenment.
Trade does not, as Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Paine believed, always bring peace in its wake, "operating to cordialize mankind".
Yet the biologists who yesterday reported their first analysis of the decoded sequence have found as much perplexity as enlightenment.
Such testimony might provide amusement as well as enlightenment, and it is hard to see what else this whole exercise is accomplishing.
The film's severity and juxtaposition of spirituality and violence was as shocking as it was appealing, and when Jodorowsky took the stage for a post-screening Q&A, his manner provided a reasonable counterpoint to the film's nightmare-as-enlightenment style.
As Enlightenment-shaped thinkers began to explore and travel throughout the world, they started to make distinctions between their fellow Western Europeans who were able to transcend culture and simply follow reason and people from other cultures who were still hung up on their religious traditions and unable to join the new elite civilization.
Or now, when he runs for president as head of a political party that has pitched itself as anti-Enlightenment.
Then again, the rich, the powerful and the politically connected need as much enlightenment as anybody else, maybe more.
We may have to retrieve the Enlightenment, as much as religion, from its fundamentalists.
