Sentence examples for perfectly enlightened from inspiring English sources
Merely moving towards "perfectly enlightened Utilitarianism" was scientifically under ambitious.
Whereas Spencer labeled this progress towards "rational" utilitarianism, Sidgwick more appropriately called this "progress in the direction of a closer approximation to a perfectly enlightened [empirical] Utilitarianism" (Sidgwick, 1907: 455).
Neither I, nor the many admirable males I know, claim to be perfectly enlightened, but I do not think that is what most women are demanding.
Buddhists see human and non-human animals as closely related, with both having a Buddha-nature and the possibility of becoming perfectly enlightened.
Despite all this, Plato will be forever associated with the idea of the philosopher-king, and indeed the notion of a perfectly enlightened ruler is a spectre that haunts all politics.
Sidgwick, however, aimed simply at "progress in the direction of a closer approximation to a perfectly enlightened Utilitarianism" (Sidgwick, 1907: 455).
Now, I do know that, in this day and age, we're all supposed to be perfectly sensitive and enlightened citizens.
This argument is perfectly understandable: The laws are hateful, and enlightened, modern and Western-oriented people in the opposition feel demeaned by having to take on the laws' supporters, armed as they are with eggs and stones and medieval rhetoric.
And it was all perfectly in line with the theory - with the theory that the most intellectually and morally enlightened had formulated and were applying.
The English Runciman family were reasonably enlightened – Lord Runciman's wife, Hilda, became one of the first female MPs – but they sold Eigg as a "perfectly secluded island of the Old World" in 1966.
