Sentence examples for values of enlightenment from inspiring English sources

As I've shown above, the values of enlightenment and civil liberties these numpties want the west to stand up for are thrown aside the instant their vested interests are threatened.

Read the full review The long awaited return to Glyndebourne of Mozart's study of the conflicting moral values of Enlightenment Europe and the Ottoman empire was flawlessly directed by David McVicar, and included a formidable debut from German bass Tobias Kehrer as Osmin.

One reads, "Seemingly random violence is the great tool for undermining the values of the Enlightenment".

They cannot be said to have reinvigorated the values of the Enlightenment in recent years, either.

"But on a fundamental level she is a demagogue who opposes the universal values of the Enlightenment".

They insist noisily that the values of the Enlightenment are under threat as never before from the forces of unreason.

All can seem part of a long, ongoing conflict between the values of the Enlightenment and obscurantist barbarism.

In such works as "On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism and Exoticism in French Thought," he has defended the values of the Enlightenment from cultural relativism.

As Buttiglione puts it: "We are losing the values of the Enlightenment because we are abandoning Christianity and the idea of God".

"Ask me not are you rightwing, but ask me are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?

No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined".