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There are 11 summaries on Enlightenment (concept).
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 Enlightenment Summary
4,544 words, approx. 15 pages
 Enlightenment The term enlightenment is generally used to designate a period in European history stretching from the 1680s to the close of the eighteenth century, but this usage is not without ambiguities and controversy. During the eighteenth century... summary from source:
 Enlightenment Social Theory Summary
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Enlightenment social theory is important to science, technology, and ethics because it represents one of the first venues in which human activities were widely studied from a scientific perspective, and in which utilitarian and naturalistic ethical... summary from source:
Illumination Summary
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 Illumination The idea of a divine 89. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,... summary from source:
 References And Further Reading Summary
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Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry 1982–1990: Report on the Process and Responses. Geneva, Switerland: WCC, 1990. Burgess, Joseph A., and Jeffrey Gros, eds. Building Unity: Ecumenical Dialogues with Roman Catholic Participation in the United States.... summary from source:
 Enlightenment Summary
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a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and man were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and... summary from source:
Enlightenment Summary
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The Enlightenment is a conventional label in the history of ideas used to cover a set of theories and attitudes developing just before and after the French Revolution, though some would date the Enlightenment as occupying the whole period from the... summary from source:
Enlightenment Summary
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European intellectual movement of the 17th–18th century in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and man were blended into a worldview that inspired revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. Central to Enlightenment... summary from source:
Enlightenment Summary
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Buddhism rests historically on the fact that Gautama Siddhartha became Buddha, a word meaning (fully) enlightened or awakened. Both meanings imply freedom from the mind’s limitations, and the expansion of this mind until one with All-Mind and... summary from source:
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 Enlightenment (concept) Summary
1,552 words, approx. 5 pages
Enlightenment broadly means the acquisition of new wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception. However, the English word covers two concepts which can be quite distinct: religious or spiritual enlightenment (German: Erleuchtung) and secular... 
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