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enlightenment

enlightenment
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  • filosofische stroming in de 18e eeuw; periode van het rationalisme in de 18e eeuw
  • a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

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enlightenment
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

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    enlightenment
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

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      1. Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-imposed immaturity.
      2. Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
      3. Vesak is a Buddhist holiday which celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha.
      4. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment.