From the East came the winds of mysticism, a sense of self-transformation based on the loss of selfhood, with enlightenment the ultimate goal.
Since the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, we have transformed our world.
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Europeans brought the truth of the Enlightenment to the West.
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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.
This shift in societal attitudes, led by a handful of enlightened thinkers of the day, is what Mokyr (2005) labels the Great Enlightenment, Jacob (1981) the Radical Enlightenment, McCloskey (2010) the Bourgeois Revaluation, and Goldstone (2002) the Engineering Culture.
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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.
That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.
If the printing press ushered in the Age of Enlightenment, the internet brought us the Age of Entitlement.
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That player I mentioned above, the one who found enlightenment on the field?
The parting of ways between Europe and China came, in his view, not with the Renaissance or the Enlightenment but with the industrial revolution.
From the Enlightenment onwards, the idea of education as an entitlement began to take hold, and curriculums were broadened to include more utilitarian subjects such as the sciences and modern languages.
It is probably no coincidence that the Humanitarian Revolution came on the heels of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment, that the Long Peace and rights revolutions coincided with the electronic global village.
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.
Economists in the French Enlightenment (like Jacques Turgot) and the Scottish Enlightenment (like Adam Smith) recognized that essential human institutions such as language, culture, legal customs, mutual aid societies and markets develop spontaneously when governments get out of the way.
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Created in collaboration with the USC Game Innovation Lab and game designer Tracy Fullerton, The Night Journey takes the player on an archetypal journey toward enlightenment through the mechanics of the game experience.
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The region requires a great deal of education and enlightenment in the field of supply chain.
The cycle starts with the creation of the technology followed by inflated expectations, disillusionment, enlightenment and the final phase of acceptance.
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Modern thinking is the enlightenment thinking that ended the Dark Ages and ushered in Newtonian science.
It is a constant reminder that you are in one of the centres of the European enlightenment - arguably the centre.
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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Shirky believes that we are on the crest of an ever-surging wave of democratized information: the Gutenberg printing press produced the Reformation, which produced the Scientific Revolution, which produced the Enlightenment, which produced the Internet, each move more liberating than the one before.
Originally a beacon of freedom and opportunity to the immigrants making their way to Ellis Island it continues to serve as a symbol of freedom and enlightenment for the whole world.
Shapiro details how scholars coming out of the Enlightenment began to rigorously examine the Western canon, tossing aside many long-held myths.
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.
But witness the recent flap over contraception and insurance in Catholic universities and hospitals such compromises are tricky, and in the end there is no escaping the fact that Mr Obama stands in the Enlightenment tradition, not with the Neopuritans.
Enlightenment was the opening wide of human intellect to reach for the stars and beyond.
In each instance, we asked readers to weigh in with comments, arguments and enlightenment on the car and our verdicts.
This persistent idea has its origins in the Enlightenment, but was fixed in the public consciousness by two popular works of the Nineteenth Century.
Before you ask, I haven't just come back from a spiritual retreat, eager to talk about enlightenment and the meaning of life (I was in Davos, which - trust me - is not the same thing at all).
The German romantic reaction to French rationalism was the worst consequence of the Enlightenment an antibody more harmful than the disease.
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