Synonym: Age of Reason, Enlightenment, Nirvana. Similar words: enlighten, moonlight, tighten, straighten, frightened, alignment, highlight, fighter. Meaning: [-mənt] n. 1. education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge 2. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness 3. a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
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31. Radio was to serve as a massive force for political enlightenment in our democratic society.
32. In Chapter 8, I sketched out three different levels of rationality: groundedness, enlightenment and emancipation.
33. In a word, the life of reason offers the prospect of enlightenment.
34. His question is old-fashioned, rational and optimistic in its premise that technology should be at the service of enlightenment.
35. There is a widespread belief that the Age of Enlightenment has run its course.
36. Parliamentary question time is frequently noisy; the interchanges are more concerned to make debating points than to add to public enlightenment.
37. He added up the odds, though, and wasn t moony about his chance for enlightenment.
38. He stared in disgust at his computer terminal, praying for enlightenment which refused to come.
39. The Bomb gives the lie to the false Enlightenment doctrine of perpetual progress.
40. Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment.
41. And that Parisian modernism did indeed represent a deepening Enlightenment rationality.
42. The well-off westerners who came here for enlightenment, what did they see?
43. It had been a moment of enlightenment for him, but one which also caused him considerable consternation.
44. Modernity is a historical process that began in the eighteenth century with the philosophical Enlightenment.
45. They would be helped enormously if other agencies of enlightenment, particularly the schooling system, contributed to the task.
46. Three Levels on which rationality has practical significance may be distinguished, which I shall call groundedness, enlightenment and emancipation.
47. He thought he was on the threshold of some awful enlightenment, an initiation of unimaginable pain.
48. Fundamentalists are looking for a billet back before the Enlightenment.
49. The problem with modernity, Enlightenment man's home is that it masks the reality of his hopelessness from him.
50. Knowledge is power, and being able to find the information you need will help you along the path to Linux enlightenment.
51. In the human entity it manifests as consciousness reaching in its highest expression towards wisdom and enlightenment.
52. Three are the peaks that everyone must seek: achievement,[sentencedict.com] fulfillment and enlightenment. RVM
53. What an irony: the great rational philosophical Enlightenment opens the door to paganism!
54. In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved.
55. The beginning of my real enlightenment was in the late sixties.
56. How did these madmen get the reputation in the West for possessing vast spiritual enlightenment?
57. This psychoanalysis of the Enlightenment obviously concentrated only on its darker side, its errors, aberrations and absurdities.
58. It was not licence he wanted; alas! not even freedom - his goal was the forcible enlightenment of mankind ....
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59. He reached into any dip of information for enlightenment on the customs and manners of the people of Oceania.
60. This is a story of continuing progress, from the barbarity of slavery to the enlightenment of the contemporary race relations industry.
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