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EnlightenmentEuropean intellectual movement that reached its high point in the 18th century. Enlightenment thinkers were believers in social progress and in the liberating possibilities of rational and scientific knowledge. They were often critical of existing society and were hostile to religion, which they saw as keeping the human mind chained down by superstition. The American and French revolutions were justified by Enlightenment principles of human natural rights. Leading representatives of the Enlightenment were Voltaire, Gotthold Lessing, and Denis Diderot. enlightenmentIn Buddhism, the term used to translate the Sanskrit bodhi ‘awakening’: the transcendence of worldy values to perceive the true nature of the world and the unreality of the self, and the liberation from suffering (dukkha). By experience of bodhi, nirvana is attained. |
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Could there be a fitter man to apply to for enlightenment in the darkness that had now gathered around me? She gazed around the room at the pictures and photographs hanging upon the wall, and discovered in some corner an old family album, which she examined with the keenest interest, appealing to Madame Lebrun for enlightenment concerning the many figures and faces which she discovered between its pages. The third draught that I craved from the fount of knowledge was enlightenment concerning the character known as A Man About Town. |
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