He considered zazen not only to be a method of moving toward enlightenment but also, if properly experienced, to constitute enlightenment itself.
Though commitment to the political ideals of freedom and equality constitutes a common ground for Enlightenment political philosophy, it is not clear not only how these values have a home in nature as Enlightenment science re-conceives it, but also how concretely to interpret each of these ideals and how properly to balance them against each other.
Considered in these terms, Hume's Treatise constitutes the crowning achievement of the Radical Enlightenment.
I disagree with its concept of "whiteness", with the characterisation of the Enlightenment as "racist", with the understanding of what "European thought" constitutes, with what it means to "decolonise".
Before Thomas Jefferson stumbled upon the felicitous phrase "the pursuit of happiness," life, liberty, and property constituted the Enlightenment's list of natural rights.
Whatever the limitations of the English Enlightenment, it urged a newly constituted reading public to trust in its own power of reason.
Holland, like America, is a nation constituted by a set of liberal Enlightenment ideals.In other words, America and the Netherlands are at the heart of something we used to call "the West" or "the free world", which now stretches from Japan and Taiwan to a bitterly contested line somewhere in eastern Europe.
The cases from Roe to Lawrence to Obergefell, Stone suggests, constitute a revolution, not a turning away but a turning back, toward the Enlightenment.
The philosophes constitute an informal society of men of letters who collaborate on a loosely defined project of Enlightenment centered around the project of the Encyclopedia.
In essence, they constitute a "Northern/Western humanitarian movement, rooted in various traditions of charity and philanthropy and in the civilizing impulses of the Enlightenment, as well as their subsequent manifestations in the expanses of what we now call the global south" (Donini 2010, p. 220).
