Sentence examples for at enlightenment from inspiring English sources
In this way they can arrive at enlightenment, liberation, belief or unbelief.
Badinter doesn't deny this any more than she claims that most women in eighteenth-century France spent their evenings dropping witticisms at Enlightenment salons or, like Émilie du Châtelet, teaching philosophy to Voltaire.
He is the progenitor of a modern view of the world that looks askance at Enlightenment pieties, like the unchallenged certainty of reason or the natural nobility of man, and whose only escape route is inward.
Part atavistic race riot, part religious disputation and part earnest effort at enlightenment, the expansive commentary is fast becoming a full-blown novel of world religion, one that dramatizes the fascinating and often shocking preoccupations of today's desk-chair ideologues.
As a final attempt at enlightenment, I decided to give yoga a try.
This conflicts with the hermeneutic view characterized by critical subjectivity, by aiming at understanding and finding meaning, by viewing every situation as unique, by conducting a dialectical cycle to gain knowledge, by aiming at enlightenment, edification, enrichment and personal growth with emphasis on quality which may impair treatment integrity (see section on study design).
There are 12 paintings that depict various events in the life of Gautama Buddha, including the birth at Lumbini, the enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, the first dharma talk at Deer Park in Varanasi and the entering of nirvana at Kushinagar.
At any rate, whether Jacobi's agenda was directed at the Enlightenment or the Sturm und Drang, the presence of Spinoza both in his conversation with Lessing and the later controversy with Mendelssohn was clear.
In this society, at least, enlightenment was a popular movement.
"If you look at the Enlightenment, it's all clean lines, and sharp stone columns, and people gazing into a bright clear future where everything is going to be quantified and man will be master of his own fate.
