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Enlightment
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enlightment
English
Proper noun
en rare en Enlightenment.
en 57 Piotr Buczkowski; Andrzej Klawiter Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories 1986 Rodopi https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=3hZJgfYAnogC 9789062038374 0303-8157
The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
en 489 Nicholas Walker The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas Simon Glemdinning The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy 1999 w:Routledge https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=oZ8UDxYpUCoC 9781579581527 with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject.
en 8 Francesca Valensise From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century 2012 Gangemi Editore spa https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Zr77coPm9qwC 9788849254310 As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.
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