Sentence examples for enlightenment toward from inspiring English sources

His disastrous misstep — the joshing blasphemies about Christianity — point toward the anti-Christian side of the French Enlightenment, toward Voltaire's suave pagan ironies and sarcasms.

Hindsight enables us to see that the 1780's was a transitional decade in which the cultural balance shifted decisively away from the Enlightenment toward Romanticism, but of course Kant did not have the benefit of such hindsight.

But his larger thesis — that Ayatollah Khomeini and Margaret Thatcher spearheaded a retreat from the values of the Enlightenment back toward those of the Middle Ages — is so thinly reasoned as to seem to warrant its own entry in Wheen's encyclopedia absurdica.

Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote once about what he termed the "acid western," saying that in most westerns "there's a movement toward enlightenment and freedom," whereas the acid westerns journey toward death.

He has told those veterans, he said, that they can aspire to become bodhisattvas, enlightened beings who practice virtue by helping others toward enlightenment.

The money morality people are basically adopting a pre-Enlightenment attitude toward monetary and fiscal policy — and why not?

He was determined to avoid the usual claim that Dianetics offered a triumphal march toward enlightenment.

He has the tone of someone raging his way toward enlightenment.

Not anger!" The Ancient One takes Strange on a journey down the rabbit hole of space and time toward enlightenment.

He considered zazen not only to be a method of moving toward enlightenment but also, if properly experienced, to constitute enlightenment itself.

Pāramitā, in Mahāyāna ("Greater Vehicle") Buddhism, any of the perfections, or transcendental virtues, practiced by bodhisattvas ("Buddhas-to-be") in advanced stages of their path toward enlightenment.