Sentence examples for enlightenment concerning from inspiring English sources

While it would be tempting to suggest that the triumph of constitutional norms with respect to Don't Ask Don't Tell might augur similar enlightenment concerning military sexual violence, current events illustrate only too clearly how far even civilian society has yet to advance on this front.

As an example, ducks and chickens appear on the screen throughout Gelsomina's conversation with the nun, but, reflecting the girl's growing sense of enlightenment concerning her place in the world, the quacking and clucking of barnyard fowl dissolves into the chirping of songbirds.

One of the central claims of Dialectic of Enlightenment concerns the "entwinement of myth and Enlightenment," as providing a deep historical treatment of the genesis of modern reason and freedom and how they turn into their opposites.

In one of the most important philosophical texts on natural religion to appear during the Enlightenment, David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (published posthumously in 1779), this supposition is criticized relentlessly, incisively and in detail.

But a study of changes made in pay practices by 191 of the nation's largest companies this year shows that where pay is concerned, enlightenment remains a long way off.

We also ignore an entire tradition of enlightenment thinking that concerned the question of how nation states can curtail their natural tendency towards conflict by conditioning their claims to sovereignty through international legally sanctioned structures.

In the sūtra the layman and householder Vimalakīrti, who is also, significantly, a model bodhisattva, instructs deities, learned Buddhist arahants, and lay people in all matters concerning the nature of enlightenment and Buddhist truth.

Try David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion for an Enlightenment reworking of the philosophical talking shop or Aristophanes' The Clouds for a very different - and much funnier - eyewitness account of Socrates.

The writer Arthur Koestler regarded laughter as a means of individual enlightenment, revelation, and subsequent freedom from confusion or misunderstanding concerning some part of the environment.

This work was supported by a 2010 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22592581) entitled Investigations of the Consciousness of Parents of Junior and Senior High School Students Concerning Schizophrenia and the Development of Educational Enlightenment Media.

John Locke's Some Thoughts concerning Education (1693) is often cited as an early Enlightenment emancipatory influence.