That face, looking as if he really had been tweaked by the nose, goes through its own enlightenment in the course of the play – puzzled, petulant, perplexed, peevish, piqued and, just now and then, a little perky.
The Fair Intellectual Club (Thursday, 6.30pm, Radio 4) is Lucy Porter's sitcom set in pre-Enlightenment Edinburgh in the course of which Isaac Newton visits the city and, with the help of this secret society for the scholarly improvement of young ladies, begins to sort out gravity.
The trend impressively unfolded and flourished with global implications in Europe in the course of and after the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the continental industrial revolution.
In the course of inventing the string quartet, Haydn molded it into a genre that embodied an Enlightenment ideal of civility — four voices engaged in stimulating conversation.
Like many Enlightenment writers, Diderot preached the right of the individual to determine the course of his or her life.
This took place over the course of what we have come to call the enlightenment, thanks in part to philosophers such as Locke.
The narrative of the history of ideas that Berlin developed and refined over the course of his works began with the Enlightenment, and focused on the initial rebellion against what Berlin regarded as that epoch's dominant assumptions.[11] In Berlin's account, the thinkers of the Enlightenment believed human beings to be naturally either benevolent or malleable.
As described in Mahayana sutras, it begins with the profound awakening of the mind aspiring for enlightenment (bodhicitta), the determination to become a buddha whatever hardships one may encounter over the course of many lifetimes of endeavor.
Haydn virtually invented the string quartet, and over the course of his career developed it into a genre that embodied an Enlightenment ideal of civility: four voices mixing harmoniously in stimulating conversation.
One of his popular essays, "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?" discusses Enlightenment in terms of the use of an individual's own reason (8 35f).
Where can this 'self-enlightenment' in the field of 'global health' be expected to come from?
