Sentence examples for enlightenment on from inspiring English sources

The Founding Fathers saw no contradiction between the values of the Enlightenment on the one hand and religious faith on the other; their genius was to insist upon the separation of church and state.

This paper examines the nature of British geographical work in Central Asia (Persia and Afghanistan) in a period when Britain was concerned about a region which lay between Europe and Enlightenment on the one hand, and her Indian colonies, the uncertainties of Asia and the imperial designs of France and Russia on the other.

The third point is that while human being and Buddha stand thus as thoroughgoing opposites the being filled with afflicting passions and lacking any goodness that might lead toward enlightenment, on the one hand, and the Buddha freely exerting the power of wisdom-compassion, on the other deep mind arises as a unitary awareness out of the interaction of being and Buddha.

1. Literally "self-enlighteners"—those who attain enlightenment on their own, without a teacher, and never preach it to others: lone and unknown enlightened ones.

He has said often that he is not, repeat not, interested in generating entertainment, on the one hand, or enlightenment, on the other.

Seeking further enlightenment on the subject, I called one drizzly morning this July on Aubert de Villaine, the patrician manager of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the greatest Burgundian estate, which has its headquarters here.

As Susan Neiman says in "Evil in Modern Thought," from the Enlightenment on there have been two views: "The one, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands that we make evil intelligible.

He has done all this in the silks of a syndicate headed by one of the most vociferous campaigners for new enlightenment on the American Turf.

Contemplating the way forward for Muslims in Denmark, Pedersen fell back on his own Viking heritage, one defined as much by water as his moment of enlightenment on that mountain in India all those years ago.

James Tyrell, one of those who attended that evening, is a source of enlightenment on this matter he later recalled that the discussion concerned morality and revealed religion.

After all, they hate the Enlightenment on all fronts.