Sentence examples for moderate enlightenment from inspiring English sources

Whereas historians in recent years have emphasized how often religion and Enlightenment got along, Israel relegates such cushy coexistence to a "Moderate Enlightenment" that was decidedly second-tier.

The "moderate Enlightenment," he says, was prodded at every point by the "radical Enlightenment".

Whenever a figure in the moderate Enlightenment slid toward the second view he was accused of being a Spinozist.

In general, defenders of the moderate Enlightenment, including Locke, Bayle, Boyle, Leibniz, Fontenelle, Voltaire and Wolff, carefully distinguished their views from those of Spinoza.

The most radical figure was Spinoza and those mesmerized by his ideas in France, Germany, and England.1 A history of the moderate Enlightenment thus requires one of the radical Enlightenment.

The theocratic monarchy of Rome, however, was open to moderate forms of Enlightenment thought under Clement XII (1730 40) and Benedict XIV (1740 58).

He contends that there were two Enlightenments, one Radical, the other Moderate.

He realized that neither luxury nor starvation would lead to enlightenment and instead decided to follow a moderate path or the Middle Way.

Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a more religiously moderate path.

Any enlightenment appreciated".

The Enlightenment had deceived him.