This is noted in the very beginning of the text: "Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters.
Their book opens with a grim assessment of the modern West: "Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters.
As well, new questions should be posed and explored, among these the following: How are canonical figures and subject-matters of the European Enlightenments to be understood in light of the extensive involvements of European nation-states and of canation-states andn cofonial imperialism and the enslavement of Africanonicales?
For some, even those momentary events that make up the flow of the world are understood to be empty of inherent existence (the idea of inherent existence is understood differently in different traditions) to the point that what one sees in the enlightenment experience is the ultimate emptiness (sunyata) of all things.
The argument was, in its way, as profound as any in the Enlightenment.
Instead, he traces the evolution of liberalism from its roots in the Enlightenment.
When I was in college I took a course in the Enlightenment.
It is convenient to discuss religion in the Enlightenment by presenting four characteristic forms of Enlightenment religion in turn: deism, religion of the heart, fideism and atheism.
In ethical thought, as in political theory, Hobbes' thought is an important provocation in the Enlightenment.
Rationalist ethics so conceived faces the following obstacles in the Enlightenment.
