The modern practice of total war, Bell argues, was driven by the Enlightenment dream of total peace.
Even if, by a sudden stroke of enlightenment, Singapore divested itself of its biggest company and brought in outsiders to manage it, the list of possible partners for it grows shorter by the day.
He was a man of the Enlightenment, a reader of Adam Smith and John Locke as well as of Voltaire and Rousseau.
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But while the Islamic emphasis upon submission to religious authority might have hardened resistance to Enlightenment values of pluralism and civil liberties, the legacy of Western imperialism shares responsibility, too.
By the time of the Enlightenment, the provision of credit and the practice of charging interest on loans had already become universally accepted as an issue of political economy rather than theology.
America, one might fairly say, had two foundings: the first under the Enlightenment guidance of its rich intellectual founders, and a second with the popular, evangelical Second Great Awakening, which flamed a quarter century afterward.
From the initial Technology Trigger, when software first made blogging easy, to the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment, thence on to the Slope of Enlightenment and, eventually, the Plateau of Productivity, blogging has passed almost all the way through the Hype Cycle.
If the printing press ushered in the Age of Enlightenment, the internet brought us the Age of Entitlement.
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The region requires a great deal of education and enlightenment in the field of supply chain.
The eighteenth century was the French century: Rousseau, Voltaire, Versailles and the court of the Sun King Louis the Fourteenth, Buffon and the Jardin des Plantes, Paris buzzing with the discourse of the enlightenment and the new supremacy of scientific method.
You cannot understand the Cuban Revolution, with its elements from the Age of Enlightenment and modern thought, only from the perspective of Marxist thought, or from the European revolutionary thought.
In sum, Switzerland would benefit from an infusion of social enlightenment and culture most of the latter is currently found in its delicious fruit yoghurt.
That truth violates the principles of the Enlightenment now engraved in the tablets of a Western world where the only truth permitted men in the public sphere is a multicultural pluralism devoid of any truthful content but that there is no truthful content.
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Shapiro details how scholars coming out of the Enlightenment began to rigorously examine the canon of the West and many long-held myths were tossed aside.
Although originally a reaction against religion indeed, it was an outgrowth of the Haskalah, the 19th-century Jewish enlightenment that the rabbis of Europe most feared Zionism never completely repudiated the authority of Judaism's priesthood.
Bestowed on me by the mystic of the age during my epic journal of enlightenment.
But the authors give short shrift to the presence and meaning of Enlightenment ideals.
Otherwise, the article is a good summary of Enlightenment Era thinking on property rights.
The drafters of the constitution were steeped in the liberal writings of Enlightenment philosophers and legal scholars.
In Glauser's books, enlightenment arises out of an atmosphere of fog and gloom.
Instead, 3D printers are now starting to work their way up the "slope of enlightenment" stage, where most progress is achieved.
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It will create a new enlightenment, capable of directing resources to the most pressing needs and ending years of anecdote and speculation.
Most of our conversation was grounded by the ideals of enlightenment and richness- this topic did not stray from them, at all.
And so, Bell argues using a reverse spin familiar to all readers of Foucault and company from the germ of Enlightenment idealism springs modern horror.
The authors may be in this enviable state of enlightenment, but most readers will not have a clue what they are on about.
The reality of American prisons, this argument runs, has nothing to do with the knots of procedural justice or the perversions of Enlightenment-era ideals.
It was the ideas of the Enlightenment, centered here in France, that helped inspire a band of Colonists across the ocean to seek our freedom.
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The young officers of the African Service who volunteered to man the slave forts and oversee the dungeons were children of the age of enlightenment.
Later Chizuo went to the Himalayas in search of enlightenment.
Examining those roots led me to the brink of enlightenment.
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