As a counter to that tendency, he said, as awareness of global religious pluralism has increased, there has developed also "an increasingly articulate body" of religious believers, especially among Christians, who appear ready to grant that enlightenment can be found in other faiths, while still affirming their own religion as utterly unique.
Mr. Harris argues that by failing to characterize Islamist warfare accurately, the West deludes itself, even employing another Enlightenment idea — tolerance — to grant harbor to those who seek to destroy it.
Some of us have been taking the European Enlightenment a little bit for granted.
The tradition of liberal arts colleges and land-grant universities alike is the notion of "enlightenment," which means educating, explaining, and illuminating ideas that might be practically useful or simply interesting for their own sake.
It also includes freedom to participate in civil society as a secular citizen, and this too, even in Europe after the Enlightenment, could hardly be taken for granted.
Granted, a slave-owning plutocrat with a taste for enlightenment philosophy who revered American democracy, Bolívar might seem an unlikely candidate as a father figure to Chávez's brand of populist Marxism.
Wilber rarely grants interviews, but after five hours Horgan had had enough enlightenment: "I wanted to drink a beer, watch a football game on television". Or perhaps dance a polka.
His is an approachable sort of enlightenment, easy to grasp and easier to take for granted.
One Enlightenment aspiration that the science-fiction industry has long taken for granted, as a necessary intergalactic conceit, is the universal translator.
At first they based their demand for the vote on the Enlightenment principle of natural law, regularly invoking the concept of inalienable rights granted to all Americans by the Declaration of Independence.
Since the Enlightenment, elites have helped develop the system many voters seem to take for granted today.
