Discussing the "Hemoclysm" – the tide of 20th-century mass murder in which he includes the Holocaust – Pinker writes: "There was a common denominator of counter-Enlightenment utopianism behind the ideologies of nazism and communism".
While what some have dubbed the Lavender Enlightenment was occurring behind the scenes at the Times in the last year or so, it seemed like all manner of gay and lesbian news was suddenly fit to print on the paper's pages as well.
There is the enlightenment of a story behind almost every pane of glass and lighting fixture.
Stone argued that leaving behind the enlightenment view of nature as a collection of "useful senseless objects" would not only help to solve the planet's material problems but would encourage a heightened awareness of nature.
It is often depicted as mounts of young Devas or dwarfs in a Torana – a six-level archway behind an enlightenment throne of a Buddha or Boddhisattva.
As the collection progresses chronologically, you see American depictions of wildlife in art become less scientific, leaving behind the Enlightenment, and more emotionally charged, as in Romanticism.
Scarpia's centre of operations, meanwhile, is a desecrated library, where torture chambers lurk behind shelves of Enlightenment tomes.
"Happy with our monks and with our Inquisition, which, according to the ideas of the French Enlightenment, has kept us a century behind other nations.
"Conventional Truth" in Tiantai is not something to be left behind when we reach enlightenment, but rather what is obtained and mastered and intensified there.
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin -- polymaths and promoters of science, disdainful of all religious orthodoxies, staunch democrats -- were the key leaders of the American Enlightenment and the principal moving forces behind the Declaration of Independence, which was largely crafted by Jefferson.
