Sentence examples for particular enlightenment from inspiring English sources

The first chapter ends on a note of fatalistic offering: "May it be of some benefit!" The book includes an epilogue from a psychiatrist, James L Knoll IV, who argues David is also somewhat reticent to claim any particular enlightenment on the nature of his brother's mental illness.

Dostoevsky is skeptical of the abstract reasoning and logic that he believed dominated Western Europe and in particular the Enlightenment.

There is, it must be stressed, something uniquely twisted about this particular path to enlightenment.

If all values are relative to particular cultures, and Enlightenment values of liberty, democracy, and racial and sexual equality are merely the local values of Western cultures, then we can't criticize them.

I already have fairly strong spiritual practices, but once I was immersed in Aja, I wasn't sure I was up for its particular brand of enlightenment.

Indeed, many key interests driving the Internet look much more like the particular interests deplored by Enlightenment thinkers than interests shared by all.

Most contemporary epistemology of religion may be called post modern in the sense of being a reaction to the Enlightenment, in particular to the thesis of the hegemony of evidentialism.

Adam Smith was part of, and a believer in, the great eighteenth-century European intellectual ferment that we call, generally, the Enlightenment; in particular, he, along with Hume, was a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, an intellectual flowering that did great credit to a traditionally relatively small, poor, marginalized nation.

It's my own particular prejudice that the English Enlightenment was of far more important interest than the French.

In particular, his work on the Enlightenment and his multivolume study of the bourgeois experience stand as monuments of scrupulous scholarship.

For Hutton this prospect is clearly unthinkable, and he goes on at once to declare that "if the next century is going to be Chinese, it will only be because China embraces the economic and political pluralism of the West in general, and our Enlightenment institutions in particular, modified, of course, for the Chinese experience".