Tuscany served as a true European model of Enlightenment absolutism for 25 years.
The American Declaration of Independence, a model of Enlightenment thinking, both appropriated Britain's "13 colonies", but also inspired the empire "on which the sun never sets".
Setting up the social model of enlightenment only creates un-enlightenment.
The old model of enlightenment was one in which the individual was liberated but the world remained the same.
You might think of the enclosed boudoir as a model of Enlightenment-style consciousness in which the mind, turning in on itself, reflects on its own nature and its epistemological capabilities.
While Europeans may think of themselves as models of environmental enlightenment — they certainly lecture the United States and China on carbon emissions as if they were — the populations of many resident and migratory birds in Europe have been collapsing alarmingly in the past ten years.
The Beacon Journal, it seemed, had become a proud model of racial enlightenment, and the men were at the top of their careers.
Though Locke's liberal model is more representative of the Enlightenment in general, Rousseau's political theory, which in some respects presents a revived classical model modified within the context of Enlightenment values, in effect poses many of the enduring questions regarding the meaning and interpretation of political freedom and equality within the modern state.
When it opened, the visitors were told, Eastern State was seen as a model of modernity and enlightenment.
There is a reason Jews have come to France from places like Eastern Europe or North Africa: ever since the French emancipation of the Jews in 1791, the country has -- with infamous lapses -- provided an enviable model of equality, an enlightenment ideal, enshrined in the French Republic, according to which individual difference is subordinated to common citizenship.
