Sentence examples for enlightenment ideologies from inspiring English sources

Either way, the global dominance of European Enlightenment ideologies is history.

The hope is that, as Enlightenment ideologies wane, a more plural world may emerge, in which diverse cultures are free to develop in their own ways.

The risk inherent in the decline of Enlightenment ideologies is the rebirth of atavistic ethnic and religious allegiances and conflicts - a development that is already far advanced in the Balkans.

At its end, the ideas of the Enlightenment (which championed reason above tradition) are in retreat, as fundamentalism, ethnic nationalism, the self-assertion of non-western cultures and the failings of western societies render Enlightenment ideologies decreasingly influential.

In England and France more so than in Germany or Russia, the central focus of Jewish experience was Wissenschaft des Judentums, with its Enlightenment ideology; there the "republic of scholarship" became the synagogue of the Jewish intelligentsia.

It was Newton's conception of the Universe based upon Natural and rationally understandable laws that became one of the seeds for Enlightenment ideology.

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".

During the 1700s the notion that sovereignty lay with the people, which emerged from ancient Greece and Rome, became coupled with the modern ideologies of the Enlightenment, especially liberalism and socialism.

Neiman's Enlightenment is not the hyperbolic ideology detected by some critics.

Conservatism and its modernising, anti-traditionalist rivals, liberalism and socialism, are the dominant political philosophies and ideologies of the post-Enlightenment era.

From a post-Enlightenment perspective, their catastrophist ideology is distinctive, but their fanaticism and violence certainly give support to those who take a Hobbesian view of things, as does the seeming inability of the international community, if there is such a thing, to forge coherent responses to any of these developments.