1) Aufklärung 2) Edification 3) Information 4) Nirvana 5) Satori 6) Sophistication 7) Wisdom
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1) Awakening to truth 2) Education 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) The act of enlightening 6) Word of purely Anglo origin 7) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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A period of scientific, intellectual and philosophical curiosity that began in the mid-1600s and contributed to revolutionary ideas, particularly the development of liberal, democratic and republican political theories.
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[Doctor Who] In the serial, alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Davison) and his companions Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) and Vislor Turlough (Mark Strickson) encounter a group of god-like immortals who are racing historical Earth sailing vessels through space, crewed by humans they had plucked out of time, in an attempt to win the priz...
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[Van Morrison song] Biographer Brian Hinton comments ``Enlightenment` is actually the opposite of what it sounds: it is full of doubt, not affirmation. `I`m meditating and still I`m suffering.` He seems to be saying everything is a state of mind, you can choose to live in heaven or hell.` In a Rolling Stone review, John Swenson writes that ...
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[software] Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing and stacking window manager for the X Window System. Since version 19, Enlightenment is also a Wayland compositor. Enlightenment includes functions to provide a graphical shell, and it can be used in conjunction with programs written for GNOME or KDE. When used together with...
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As a concept is related to the Buddhist Bodhi but is a cornerstone of religious and spiritual understanding in practically all religions. It literally means being illuminated by acquiring new wisdom or understanding.
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• (n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed. • (n.) = AufklArung.
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a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and man were synthesized into a ... [81 related articles]
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(from the article `ethics`) ...somehow built into the universe itself. Hence, truth and right are linked; to penetrate through illusion and understand the ultimate truth of ... ...Its central theme is the conviction that, by applying the classical methods of mental prayer, one experiences a contemplative `vision of light,` a ....
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European 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...
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In 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...
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(also called the neoclassic movement) the philosophical and artistic movement growing out of the Ren
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En·light'en·ment noun Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
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Literary period between 1700 and 1770, characterised by a strong belief in the powers of human reason and clear thought. In literature characteristic features are balance, clarity, harmony, and proportion.
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The experience of knowing the cause of suffering in the Buddhist tradition. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, is said to have experienced enlightenment under the Bodhi tree (ca 530 BCE) (Smith and Green 1995
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The goal of life in both Buddhism and Hinduism. For Hindus, it is union with God and self-realization. For Buddhists, it is realization of the truth about reality, achieved by following a system of practices (which may especially include meditation), in accordance with the particular school to which an adherent belongs. See Four Noble Truths.
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Age of Reason noun 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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European 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 superst...
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In 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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a trend during the 18th century that favored the power of human reason. It was believed that knowledge could only come from observation guided by reason and that through reason, continuing progress in knowledge, achievement, and morality could be sustained. Further, that through education, human nature could be changed for the better.
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the act of enlightening. · the state of being enlightened: to live in spiritual enlightenment. · (usually cap.) prajna. · a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.
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Intellectual and spiritual movement in Europe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, concerned with the relationship of God, nature, reason, and man, often challenging the tenets of Christianity.
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education that results in the spread of knowledge
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