Sentence examples for enlightened thinker from inspiring English sources

In these two monumental volumes, Pocock seeks to explain how a studious boy fashioned himself into a genuinely "enlightened" thinker.

But the enlightened thinker, after all, offers a different service for sale than the enlightened farmer or laborer, within the division of labor that Smith (and Condorcet) took as fundamental to modern society.

Boswell offers the perfect specimen for an old-and-new experiment of the kind that Zaretsky performs: a man at home in the salons of the age of Enlightenment, but one who was scarcely an enlightened thinker.

He's an enlightened thinker, but hardly a preacher.

She was an enlightened thinker, with a keen intellect, and a passion for life.

In his op-ed, Mr. Erdogan used the slaughter in New Zealand to paint himself as an enlightened thinker.

He rejected the almost-universal prejudice, even among "enlightened" thinkers, that women were intellectually inferior to men, regarding it as an illegitimate excuse for excluding women from public life as well as from many forms of education.

Canon law is man-made law which comes to us via an apostolic succession that is as lousy with weak links as it is gleaming with saintly paragons and enlightened thinkers.

The Jews refused to just abandon their religion and culture to join the newly secularized "enlightened" Christian thinkers in their universal rational civilization, or what has come to be known as "whiteness".

In Niles's view, Tolkien thought that the battles with monsters and the sombre, elegiac tone of the poem expressed the "artistic designs of a deep thinker, religiously enlightened, who let his mind play over a lost heroic world of the imagination", in other words that the Beowulf poet was a man much like Tolkien.

In the face of such diversity, Enlightenment thinkers sought to discover what could still be taken as universally reasonable enlightened or truly civilized in the living out of human relationships.