Mandalas in bold, hypnotic hues and figures of rippling muscularity and devotion are intended to help connect practitioners to meditation and ritual as practical paths to enlightenment.
A summation of new scientific and technological knowledge and, by that very fact, a radically polemical enterprise, the Encyclopédie is the epitome of the Enlightenment, disseminating practical information to improve the human lot, reduce theological superstition, and, in Diderot's words from his key article "Encyclopédie," "change the common way of thinking".
(And, wait, isn't it often at odds with the practice of "freedom"?) Being Enlightenment people, they thought that many of the practical details and the contradictions in these values could be haggled out, rationally, using language.
Intellectual enlightenment and the practical illumination of the streets, both enterprises that sought to eradicate remnants of the medieval past, were closely complicit developments in the cities of early modern Europe.
Just as the Enlightenment thinkers had a strong practical bent, producing many advances in medicine for example, so too do today's Scottish scientists.
The trisvabhava is inseparably connected with the practical purposes of Yogachara ("Practice of Yoga"), as knowledge of the doctrine can enable one to break through the painful chain of death and rebirth, or samsara, and attain the state of enlightenment, or nirvana.
Therefore, this study presents a new enlightenment for researchers to realize the practical application of Li-S banderies and an effective reference for the design of other porous materials.
This "humanitarian revolution" underlies the decline of violence since the 18th century, the Enlightenment values developing there directly precipitating a practical commitment to our shared humanity.
However, Rousseau's writings help Kant to the articulation of a practical philosophy that addresses many of the tensions in the Enlightenment.
With revolution we immediately confront the problem of deep, possibly noncumulative, conceptual and practical change, now in modern science itself, a locus that Enlightenment thinkers would have found surprising.
