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en·light·en
/ enˈlītn/
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v. [tr.]
give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation:
Christopher had not enlightened Frances as to their relationship.
∎
give (someone) spiritual knowledge or insight.
∎ fig.
illuminate or make clearer (a problem or area of study):
this will enlighten the studies of origins of myths.
DERIVATIVES:
en·light·en·er
n.
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Enlightenment and tradition: the clash within civilizations.
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...on reason and individualism of the Enlightenment. This is going on in the West, as...by which what the West calls "the Enlightenment"--the thought and political changes...the philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment presented a radical challenge to traditional...
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The postmodern enlightenment.(Book review)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment. By Katerina Deligiorgi. Albany...pages. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. By Peter Hanns Reill. Berkeley...Its English equivalent, the Enlightenment, was first used at the end of...
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Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...We live in an age that must rethink Enlightenment error. This may well encapsulate David...s challenging interpretation of the Enlightenment's "structure of error" (p. 18...the familiar polemic that celebrates Enlightenment reason as emancipatory or indicts it...
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Enlightenment Development Team Releases Enlightenment 0.16 - Popular Next-Generation Window Manager for Linux Redefines the Desktop.
PR Newswire; 10/27/1999; 700+ words
; ...Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Enlightenment development team announced that it...its newest version, 0.16, of the Enlightenment window manager for Linux (and other...environments today. The premise behind Enlightenment is simple: users are given unprecedented...
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Enlightenment or not, we need some new ideas
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 6/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; WHATEVER happened to the Scottish Enlightenment? Just recently, there have been incessant...the First Minister demanded a new Enlightenment and even suggested that devolution...Edinburgh: Inspiring Capital - The Second Enlightenment?" Note the question mark: it seems...
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Civility, enlightenment, and society: conceptual confusions and Kantian remedies.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...and caprice creep in at all times, enlightenment gradually arises," and thus the...chiliastic expectations" regarding enlightenment and civil society do not appear to...maladies to something they call the "Enlightenment project." Over the same period...
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The Enlightenment: A Comparative social history 1721-1794. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History 1721...revolutionaries had invented the Enlightenment, he also suggested that the eighteenth...though Thomas Munck focuses on the Enlightenment, he has much in common with Chartier...
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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Culture of Modernity.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE INTELLECTUAL CULTURE OF MODERNITY...In this new work, D. treats the Enlightenment as "the second wave of modernity...and countercurrents that make the Enlightenment considerably more variegated than...
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Counter-remembering the enlightenment
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Our relation to the Enlightenment can be put in terms of rejection...A feminist might reject the Enlightenment and its universalizing assumptions...anthropologist might identify the Enlightenment as the origin of dangerous and...
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Bronner, Stephen Eric: Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Bronner, Stephen Eric Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement...Date: September 2004 Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement...constructively engage politics. Reclaiming the Enlightenment continues that project by looking to...
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Enlightenment
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Enlightenment term applied to the mainstream of...reading public. These proponents of the Enlightenment shared certain basic attitudes. With...epitomized the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, as it is also...
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Enlightenment, Impact of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
ENLIGHTENMENT, IMPACT OF The Enlightenment is traditionally defined as an intellectual movement characterized...arbitrary authority, and opposed by the retrograde anti-Enlightenment. Originated with the French philosophes, especially Charles...
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Enlightenment, The
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
Enlightenment, The In 1784 the German philosopher...to the difficult question "What is enlightenment?" He defined this intellectual movement...tutelage. This emancipatory view of the Enlightenment was widely shared, as was his interest...
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Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
HASKALAH (JEWISH ENLIGHTENMENT) HASKALAH (JEWISH ENLIGHTENMENT). "Haskalah" is the Hebrew term for the Enlightenment movement and ideology that began in European Jewish society in the 1770s and continued until the 1880s. A proponent of the...
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sudden enlightenment
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
sudden enlightenment. The position on enlightenment supposedly taken by the ‘ Southern School...position is generally opposed to that of ‘ gradual enlightenment’. Based on an extreme philosophical non...
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