Sentence examples for progressive enlightenment from inspiring English sources

Bey was among the most charismatic rappers of his time, and his albums were regarded as manifestos for progressive enlightenment.

Globally, self-identified Muslims are often considered harbingers of regressive values that are antithetical to a secular project of progressive enlightenment.

The fanatical theocrats make them nervous, but they are confident that all this is just a phase on the road to progressive enlightenment.

In the 1830s Ruge acted as the conscience of the Prussian state, recalling its more progressive Enlightenment heritage, which (he feared) was being forfeited to advancing conservative forces.

Anthems like "Not a Pretty Girl" and uplifting autobiography like "Untouchable Face" (sung with Greg Brown, who opened) did the work for which Ms. DiFranco was born, turning her story into a feminist saga of progressive enlightenment.

Under Caminer's direction, the periodical became the most progressive Enlightenment influence in the Veneto region of Italy.

Smith is more of an Enlightenment progressive than this reading suggests, more of a believer that an enlightened understanding of their circumstances can help people improve those circumstances, but he had less faith in this notion than did most of his contemporaries.

More so than the deists Voltaire and Rousseau, Diderot embodied the most progressive wing of Enlightenment thought, a position that stemmed from his belief that skepticism in all matters was "the first step toward truth".

n Derrick Bell's view, discourse about race in America is mired in the sugarcoated myth that equality for blacks will be found just around the corner, as soon as the country completes its fitful but inevitably progressive journey toward enlightenment and justice.

After all, it has been a canon of progressive thought since the Enlightenment that modernity that heady combination of science, learning and democracy would kill religion.

From the outset, he says, America was rather less exceptional than it imagined, given that the founding fathers were intellectual descendants of the Enlightenment, their progressive politics shaped by the likes of Locke, Hume, Montesquieu and Voltaire.