A "trough of disillusionment" follows, and then, finally, a "slope of enlightenment," meaning that the technology finally catches up to its initial hype.
In a first phase, a new idea creates inflated expectations; they are followed by a "trough of disillusionment", which in turn gives way to the "slope of enlightenment", meaning that the technology is starting to show its true potential.
Let us instead create a taxonomy of fundamentalists, the tolerant observant and the enlightened (meaning those whose beliefs are directly derived from the Enlightenment).
The SATORI tool (SATORI: a Japanese Buddhist term for enlightenment, literally meaning 'understanding') provides a way to operationalize the TUMS knowledge translation model.
As stylized as they are, the Bluths and Funkes are not cartoon characters: they're broken and empty, but they sense it — and throughout Season Four, each of them seeks enlightenment or meaning or purpose, which inevitably makes things worse.
The very notion of seeking for liberation, for enlightenment, for meaning or purpose seems absurd.
Sartre had found a role for both humanism and history — "humanism" meaning the Enlightenment belief that individual acts had resonance and meaning, "history" meaning the Marxist belief that, in the impersonal working out of the dialectic, they actually didn't.
The austere keepers of the flame of the Société Voltaire argued that "it was also Voltaire that [the killers] wanted to assassinate", meaning the Enlightenment legacy of sceptical rationality, laicité (secularism), free-ranging curiosity and battles against censorship that he embodied; but so too did a leader in glossy, celebrity-fixated Paris Match.
(Dharmakaya is Sanskrit, meaning the mind of enlightenment).
Summerson writes that, in the spirit of the Enlightenment, the notion of 'bienfaisance', literally meaning the desire to render society more reasonable and more humane, liberated the scope of both hospital and prison planning.
"Carib art," is how Baudelaire described sculpture, meaning that even the suavest, most sophisticated works of unearthly virtuosity by Enlightenment paragons like Canova and Thorvaldsen were tainted by the medium's primitive, cultish origins.
