Sentence examples for assert the Enlightenment from inspiring English sources
Its 18th-century squares and classical monuments assert the Enlightenment.
In the end, Cohen rightly argues, we have to assert the Enlightenment values of both Voltaire and Mill as they argued for free speech.
"He can assert the Fifth Amendment".
But in order to state the sort of evidentialism characteristic of Enlightenment thought, it is stipulated that no beliefs asserting the content of religious or mystical experiences count as evidence.
Dostoevsky rejected the idea that people act in accordance to reason or their best interests and asserted the need for them to be able to behave as they choose, without fitting into Enlightenment ideas of "progress".
Finally, one asserts the proposition.
The Enlightenment Project asserts that there can be a social science comparable to physical science, that social science can help us explain, predict, and control the social world.
The plaintiffs assert that the A.C.A.
Neiman, an American who is currently the director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin, boldly asserts that when Marxism, postmodernism, theory and fundamentalism challenge the Enlightenment they invariably come off second best.
A bit later, Mr. Tribe raised the level of vocabulary in the courtroom, if not universally the level of enlightenment, by asserting that "the fundamental nature of the objection is utterly quotidian".
