There's that post-enlightenment folk history again. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
One of the best forms of modernist, post-enlightenment culture is the ability to stand back and critique ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [clusterflock: Lynn Bauman Archives] Reference
The Western post-enlightenment belief system but how does that square with current materialist religiosity in the US?. From Wordnik.com. [Paper trawl] Reference
We need to know now what a mature reading in this post-enlightenment age of deeply vexed modernity can possibly mean. From Wordnik.com. [Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age: Introduction] Reference
These moral principles are not universally held, but the post-enlightenment West believes that they should apply universally. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The former has been most appealing to intellectuals, explains James, for it espouses a divine being agreeable to a rational and a post-enlightenment world. From Wordnik.com. [Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum] Reference
Given the views of the "hostess" and many of the commenters here I can understand why someone espousing post-enlightenment western values may be deemed unwanted. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Desid, I appreciate the compliment, but there is a serious point that the free expression of post-enlightenment Western societies is in fact a very big comparative advantage. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Peretz on the Cairo Speech:] Reference
“Desid, I appreciate the compliment, but there is a serious point that the free expression of post-enlightenment Western societies is in fact a very big comparative advantage.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Peretz on the Cairo Speech:] Reference
But for those among us - progressives - advocating a post-enlightenment approach to national coversations on public policy, lethality and real and invented threats demand a rational response. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution and Fear Mongering] Reference
"He deepened monastic practice by insisting upon post-enlightenment training and by consciously and enthusiastically reaching out to lay parishioners in new ways," says co-curator Audrey Yoshiko Seo. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound Of One Hand: Paintings Of Zen Master Hakuin Showcased In New Exhbition (PHOTOS)] Reference
The absurd spectacle of a post-enlightenment society seriously discussing the relative merits of evolution and creationism is being watched with a mix of abject horror and ridicule back in my home country. From Wordnik.com. [The World Eyes American Ignorance] Reference
But does he understand the need to reestablish our credibility as the leading light of post-enlightenment values and redirect our economy into something far more sustainable and able to compete in a changing world?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The religious right is questioning the very core of western post-enlightenment thinking (including science) and is doing so with the expressly stated agenda of overturning it and replacing it with what can only be called a neo-medievalist worldview. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism] Reference
"Descending the Mountain" or post-enlightenment is where things get rough. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
But an introductory anthropology course showed that a Western, post-enlightenment worldview is just that: One of many possible ways to see, interpret and experience the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Princetonian, 2009-12-11] Reference
For me, these sub (cult) ures and their discourses and practices are most interesting as clarifying extremes illustrating the sorts of reductionisms, denialisms, elitisms to be found as well in more prevailing (post-enlightenment, especially neoliberal) global techno-developmental discourses. From Wordnik.com. [amor mundi] Reference
In plainer language, what it means is that there really are nutcases in the post-enlightenment / 21st century who (despite what would otherwise be the edifying and therapeutic effects of reason and common sense) nevertheless truly believe in all that nonsense about one small, backwards tribe of people destined by the Almighty to 'inherit the earth' and 'make footstools' of all their Gentile enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free] Reference
In plainer language, what it means is that there really are nutcases in the post-enlightenment / 21 st century who (despite what would otherwise be the edifying and therapeutic effects of reason and common sense) nevertheless truly believe in all that nonsense about one small, backwards tribe of people destined by the Almighty to 'inherit the earth' and 'make footstools' of all their Gentile enemies. From Wordnik.com. [The Ugly Truth] Reference
They carefuly bred you to be a racist wingnut who doesn’t understand basic science and post-enlightenment thought. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Let’s Make a Movie!] Reference
Don’t bother them with your post-enlightenment empiricism – they’re too busy debating which platonic solid is linked with which classical element. From Wordnik.com. [Vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It’s not as if the post-enlightenment west has a better track record with respect to its treatment of jews, but we’ve been a bit better of late, no?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey] Reference
Is this what is meant by post-enlightenment?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
We say post-modern, post-colonial, post-enlightenment, post-Christendom. From Wordnik.com. [way out west] Reference
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