I've been reading an historical novel — World Without End by Ken Follett — and it's got me thinking about how Western civilization evolved from the middle ages to
the age of enlightenment.
Yes I hear that TGM — however I'm not sure if
the age of enlightenment changed the agenda for the abuse of power within so called christian societes — some of the issues I raised occured after that time and are still happening..
Should we be talking about the billions who perished at the hands of the Christian Church over the sixteen hundred years or so prior to
the age of enlightenment?
I'd also point out to the enlightened atheists who want to bash Christianity because of what it did during the Dark Ages, that atheism, in
an age of enlightenment in the 20th century, probably resulted in more mass deaths than all of human history combined.
What makes our country great are the philosophies of
the age of enlightenment and reason that are founding fathers utilized....
For far too many year, Christians have tried to shut people up and in
this age of enlightenment people are finally pushing back.
The unfortunate truth is that going to school does not necessarily translate into being educated or
the age of enlightenment.
The period you relate is known as the dark ages, as opposed to
the age of enlightenment some years after all those Catholics you mention.
Why then, in
this age of enlightenment, is it so hard -LSB-...]
As humanity moves from the industrial to the technological age, positive change is something that many of our institutions are in need of if we are to make a successful transition into a new
age of enlightenment.
I should be, in
this age of enlightenment, well into andropause, a clinically recognized term to describe the age related decline in testosterone.
But this is
the age of enlightenment and it's time to live life that way you want it.
Assaulted by all manner of killer machines and robots, the mercenaries must make their way through the tumultuous landscape, activate an inter-dimensional communication device, communicate with otherworldly aliens, and bring about a new
age of enlightenment and prosperity for a dystopian galactic civilization.
Used effectively under the direction of passionate and experiential teachers, Artificial Intelligence will be a tool that helps us strive towards a new
age of enlightenment, which in turn, will transform the teaching and learning process into something more immersive, engaging, and effective than ever before.
I don't want to preempt the authors, but watch this space for a new
age of enlightenment, not only in the scientific world, but also in Humans understanding of our interaction with the ecology.
Is this the end of
the age of enlightenment?
Unlike major advertising companies, with us, you're not just one of hundreds of clients eating pancakes in
the age of enlightenment — you're our focus, baby, 100 %.
Bar regulators must enter their own
age of enlightenment.
Not exact matches
Correction: Late middle
ages, beginning
of the Renaissance, if you want to get technical about it like my charming little replier, and believe that this epoch consisted
of wall to wall
enlightenment.
This expression will bring
enlightenment and consolation, and he will be grateful to find it mentioned for the first time in an official ecclesiastical document
of our
age.
It pains me to see how many people - in this day and
age of scientific
enlightenment and understanding - still cling stubbornly to outdated beliefs that originated through * lack *
of understanding; through appeal to the pack nature
of humankind, in yearning for kinship and to «belong» to something greater; and through efforts to control, suppress, and subjugate the masses.
As this
Age of Great
Enlightenments contnue onwards the Kingdom Domains
of God does progressively teach one and we are taught from its outward creviced distances toward almost absolute finiteness or the very very smallest
of distinguishable degrees, God will allow our students and teachers
of such studies to meaningfully create manly made biologic mechanisms for the betterment's welfare
of all our physical needs and trade orientated desires.
The will to dream dreamt dreaming is what we dividedly do least and only in the sparsity
of dreamt dreaming issues did we come
of Age in the
enlightenments of science and its ongoing understandings
of spiritually to be so dreamt dreams
of daytime believers daring to dream the dreams
of one's lifetimes!
The will to dream dreamt dreaming is what we dividedly do least and only in the sparsity
of dreamt dreaming issues did we come
of Age in the
enlightenments of science and its ongoing understandings
of spirituality to be so as dreamt dreams
of daytime believer dreamers daring to dream the dreams
of one's lifetimes!
All the more so since, pace Bultmann, whose view
of the matter is all too academic, our
age is not one
of enlightenment.
Christians quickly embraced the notion that increased communication would bring about
enlightenment and progress, just as sixteenth - century Protestants had seen printing as a providential device to overcome ignorance and superstition and «bring Western Europe out
of the dark
ages.»
Hillis: So, I guess, I believe that humanity is entering a fundamentally different
age of how we think about the world, in the same since that the
enlightenment changed our image
of our relationships to the world.
The Brilliant Curie «We can not help feeling that in this advanced
age, in such a center
of enlightenment as Paris, and where a scientist
of such brilliant performance as Madame Curie is concerned, this discussion as to whether she is eligible for admission to the French Academy
of Sciences is altogether deplorable.
The Parliament, the pair writes, has missed an opportunity «to proceed from the dark
ages to an era
of enlightenment.»
If you believe that 2012 was actually not meant to be the end
of the world, as per the erroneous interpretation
of the Mayan calendar, but rather to signify a paradigm shift as we move into the coming
age, an
age some say will bring
enlightenment, then you can see how much potential we all hold in the palm
of our hand in this moment.
Neuroscience meets New
Age for the next generation
of enlightenment seekers; this audiobook breaks down the illusion
of business and stress by making space for quiet and stillness.
The Alexander
of this movie is presented as a benevolent ruler, one who «frees» the people
of the lands he «conquers» and inspires a new
age of change and
enlightenment throughout the eastern world.
Jack's newest prospect is a New
Age spiritual leader named Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis), who apparently has written a book, so Jack goes to Sinja's headquarters, mocks the meditative chanting, and feigns a moment
of enlightenment to get some alone time with Sinja.
Could AI developments incur the exact opposite
of enlightenment to the point where we start to rely ever more on computers to answer our questions and therefore lose the ability to answer them ourselves, or are we in fact entering a new
age of stupidity?
While Plato stressed the laborious acquisition
of knowledge and understanding as the means to
enlightenment, our impatient
age has preferred to think
of the emancipation to be achieved through education as simply the removal
of the chains
of illusion (conventional morality and traditional religious worldviews) without the discipline
of seeking truth or the confidence that there is truth to be found.
The trip doesn't bring Carey (or indeed the reader) much
enlightenment about the country (in fact, the book only serves as a reminder
of the generational gaps and East / West divide), but that's most
of the fun, for even in a global
age, it shows we can still find meaning in impenetrable and bewildering things when they are presented to us in an engaging way.
Perhaps this hard working social scientist will do another project and explore the mind
of the AGW true believer and let us now how
enlightenment in this anthropocene
age of climate catastrophe functions.
The
age of (IPCC)
enlightenment.
France's Golden
Age of culture and
enlightenment first blossomed at the court
of Versailles under Louis XIV (1643 - 1715), who set the style for all
of Europe.