the Enlightenment
noun
: a movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion
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Since the Enlightenment, science has often been seen as being in a fundamental conflict with religion and spirituality.
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Arianna Huffington, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
The rivalry of two magicians, one a man of the Enlightenment, the other the quintessence of the new spirit of Romanticism, set in a world where folklore and superstition speak eloquently of seismic cultural change.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
For Jacksonians—who formed the core of Trump’s passionately supportive base—the United States is not a political entity created and defined by a set of intellectual propositions rooted in the Enlightenment and oriented toward the fulfillment of a universal mission.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2017
It was precipitated first by the Enlightenment, then the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, and finally the emergence, on the back of these developments, of Capitalism.
—Jon Moynihan, Fortune Europe, 3 Dec. 2024
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Arianna Huffington, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
The rivalry of two magicians, one a man of the Enlightenment, the other the quintessence of the new spirit of Romanticism, set in a world where folklore and superstition speak eloquently of seismic cultural change.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
For Jacksonians—who formed the core of Trump’s passionately supportive base—the United States is not a political entity created and defined by a set of intellectual propositions rooted in the Enlightenment and oriented toward the fulfillment of a universal mission.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2017
It was precipitated first by the Enlightenment, then the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, and finally the emergence, on the back of these developments, of Capitalism.
—Jon Moynihan, Fortune Europe, 3 Dec. 2024
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“The Enlightenment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Enlightenment. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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