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The Enlightenment's defenders are in part to blame for this global rejection of its ideals.
Now is not the time to turn our backs on Enlightenment values | Will Hutton 2012
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What artificial light has signified to us, according to Brox's analysis, is the Enlightenment's promise of liberty and equality.
Shining a light on the way artificial light has changed our lives Joshua Glenn 2010
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It is above all the long shadow of Hobbes that looms large in Arendt's diagnoses of the transition from classical liberalism to bourgeois imperialism and from the Enlightenment's deliberative to utilitarianism's instrumental paradigm of rationality.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008
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The renowned objections of French women to the French Enlightenment's compounded prejudice against women,10 signalled by their exclusion from the Declaration of Rights, was overlooked in the narratives of their Greek counterparts.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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To this extent, it is perhaps more accurate to argue that the fashioning of Greek female subjectivities in nineteenth-century Greece was more profoundly influenced by the French Enlightenment's conceptions of womanhood, which were transmitted through education, rather than by endogenous social forces — at least till the last quarter of the century.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Enlightenment's own inability to escape the mythologizing it criticized.
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Viewed from a distance, romanticism's break with Enlightenment's break with tradition-in-the-form-of-religion looks like a continuation of religion by other means.
Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism 2008
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This ideal of political equality arose from the Enlightenment's insistence that since no one has access to absolute truth, no one has a moral right to impose his or her values and beliefs on others.
Ronald Bailey - Transhumanism and the Limits of Democracy William Harryman 2009
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I think you misconstrue the Enlightenment's re-interpretation via critical method as the product of "discovery" and globalization.
Proto social inquiry Daniel Little 2009
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However, with the Enlightenment's interest in classical asthetics the term came around again, in the form of an allegory or a metaphor.
Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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