Sentence examples for how enlightenment from inspiring English sources
It is how enlightenment was disseminated until the advent of the Internet".
The article cited Auschwitz as an example of how the Enlightenment had "given birth" to totalitarianism.
"It is worrisome just how much enlightenment the electorate needs".Indeed, the election was a clash between appeals to good governance on the one hand and the lure of old-school clientelism and populism on the other.
Burns's other works include the classic text Leadership (1978), The Power to Lead: The Crisis of the American Presidency (1984), and Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World (2013).
My first impression: this book just came out in paperback, and is a deep and thought-provoking argument for how the enlightenment still affects modern social and political thought.
One objection to this view of reality is that, if the world is self-generating and without any specific point or moment of origin, if we are truly relational and thus ultimately intergenerational beings, and if experience is karmically-conditioned, how is enlightenment or liberation from conflict, trouble and suffering possible?
The song was originally intended for a rock opera Townshend had been working on, Lifehouse, which was a multi-media exercise based on his followings of the Indian religious avatar Meher Baba, showing how spiritual enlightenment could be obtained via a combination of band and audience.
But even when one questions some of his conclusions -- how many Enlightenments can there be before the concept becomes simply a collection of fragments?
It's the grin of an adman who has figured out how to use enlightenment to peddle sugar water, co-opting the counterculture as a brand.
Brown commends Himmelfarb's 2004 book for setting out how the British enlightenment coupled "the passion for liberty" with "a strong ethos of social responsibility".
