Sentence examples for enlightenment instances from inspiring English sources
Looking ahead three centuries — about the interval that separates us from the beginnings of the Enlightenment — instances of scientific-thinking-gone-wrong may take catastrophic forms.
But there is very little coverage of the European Enlightenment, for instance, nor of the thriving life around the North Sea in what we call the dark ages (which Michael Pye wrote about so well in his recent The Edge of the World), both of which had a huge influence on both ends of the silk roads.
The alternative scenario, in which the causal chain might be interrupted by a single thought, for instance of enlightenment, is no less puzzling: such an interruption could bring about sudden enlightenment.
Ch'an, for instance, is based on the premise that enlightenment can be attained through meditation alone, whereas Theravāda advocates using both but also holds that analysis alone may be sufficient for some.
It was an enlightenment that could also never be content with how things were in the present moment, even at those rare instances when everything seems like it couldn't be more perfect.
Any enlightenment appreciated".
The Enlightenment had deceived him.
The Ukrainian nationalist right is one instance of what is going on today from the Balkans to Scandinavia, from the US to Israel, from central Africa to India: ethnic and religious passions are exploding, and Enlightenment values receding.
But enlightenment approaches.
Enlightenment, revival, virtue.
