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Enlightenment
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Iluminismo • Ilustración • el Siglo de las Luces
A 17th- and 18th-century European intellectual movement emphasizing rationalism. The period during which it flourished is called the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason.
1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 36 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN He first presented a complementary thesis on the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
alumbramiento • esclarecimiento • iluminación
An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
alumbramiento (disused) • iluminación • iluminismo • ilustración
A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
But the man who has attained enlightenment sees that the apparent reality is mere illusion, or, as was said a couple of thousand years later, that there is nothing good nor bad but…
Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “K…
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