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 Encyclopedia [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Many modern thinkers view it as one of the first works of sociology.
Born in Langres, Champagne, France in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the Enlightenment, and was the editor-in-chief of the famous Encyclopédie....
[click for more], as a result of the Scottish Enlightenment, for education there was of a higher standard than in the rest of the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the European Union.
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 Neoplatonism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The great third century thinker and 'founder' of Neoplatonism, Plotinus, is responsible for the grand synthesis of progressive Christian and Gnostic ideas with the traditional Platonic philosophy.
Of course, these thinkers held, respectively, quite different views as to why and how the soul experiences the descent as an evil; but they held one thing in common: that the rational soul will naturally choose the Good, and that any failure to do so is the result of forgetfulness or acquired ignorance.
His message is quite simple, and is manifestly distilled from the often cumbersome doctrines of earlier thinkers (especially Iamblichus and Proclus).
www.iep.utm.edu /n/neoplato.htm   (6884 words)

  
 The Buddha and His Message, by Bhikkhu Bodhi
This aspiration, nurtured by boundless love and compassion for all living beings caught in the net of suffering, is the force that sustains the bodhisattva in his many lives of striving to perfect the påramis.
At the outset I must stress that the Buddha was not born as an Enlightened One.
These discourses show the Buddha as an astute political thinker who understood well that government and the economy can flourish only when those in power prefer the welfare of the people to their own private interests.
www.buddhanet.net /budmsg.htm   (5827 words)

  
 Serious Levity at Liberty For All - Online Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Enlightened self-interest is how the Libertarian Philosophy and a Libertarian society should work.
In fact Libertarians are the most politically enlightened and kind people you may ever have the opportunity to meet.
In America most people are enlightened enough to realize this, but this does not mean that they do not believe in using force/violence against people who have done nothing to harm anyone.
www.libertyforall.net /2003/archive/oct31/enlightened.html   (964 words)

  
 Environmental Ethics
Enlightened anthropocentrism, they argue, is sufficient for that practical purpose, and perhaps even more effective in delivering pragmatic outcomes, in terms of policy-making, than non-anthropocentric theories given the theoretical burden on the latter to provide sound arguments for its more radical view that the nonhuman environment has intrinsic value (cf.
An important message underlying the debate, perhaps, is that even if ecological restoration is achievable, it might have been better to have left nature intact in the first place.
Furthermore, unlike deontology or consequentialism the moral focus of which is other people or states of the world, one central issue for virtue ethics is how to live a flourishing human life, this being a central concern of the moral agent himself or herself.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/ethics-environmental   (9453 words)

  
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I was also going to respond to your message in a much more lighthearted fashion until I hit the bit about deleting the original; ironically, that is EXACTLY the sort of "I don't like it--get rid of it" attitude that actually DOES turn me off the conservative ideal.
Turtle's message, even taken completetly seriously, was /still/ describing people in terms of their philosophies, /not/ in terms of some uncontrollable characteristic.
Telling him he should be deleting messages is something he /does/ take deadly seriously; if you really didn't want this /type/ of reaction, posting something in a less morally outraged stance might have been helpful.
www.textfiles.com /messages/ALTERREALITY/ar24.txt   (12147 words)

  
 Buddhism And The Free Thinkers
Many so-called free thinkers are actually not "free" thinkers, but they are lazy to think.
Immediately after gaining enlightenment, when there were many disciples, the Buddha said, "Monks, now you and I are free from human and divine bondages".
According to some western thinkers Buddhism is known as "the religion of freedom and reason".
www.buddhistinformation.com /buddhism_and_the_free_thinkers.htm   (4788 words)

  
 Pius XII    Christmas Message of 1942
As the Holy Christmas Season comes round each year, the message of Jesus, Who is light in the midst of darkness, echoes once more from the Crib of Bethlehem in the ears of Christians and re-echoes in their hearts with an ever new freshness of joy and piety.
It is a message which lights up with heavenly truth a world that is plunged in darkness by fatal errors.
That message can solve the most tortuous questions, unsolved and insoluble for those who bring to their investigations a mentality and an apparatus which are ephemeral and merely human; and those questions stand up, bleeding, imperiously demanding an answer, before the thought and the feeling of embittered and exasperated mankind.
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I met his wife and daughter at Axis when Christine was only a few months old.
First time I met Pete he picked me up at Hawthorn Suites and in the back of his mini-van was his cute baby-daughter.
But after reading the messages here from those who knew them, one thing I do know: the hijackers thought to take their lives and make an ending - but theirs is a life eternal and their journey is not over.
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 SGI - President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We first met in May of 1972, when the flowers in England were in bloom.
When we met, tensions between the China and the Soviet Union were high and seemed ready to explode into full-scale war at the least provocation.
Active in 13th-century Japan, Nichiren clarified the core message of the Lotus Sutra and offered a concrete means by which people could bring forth and make manifest their inherent inner dignity.
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 Theology Today - Vol 15, No. 3 - October 1958 - ARTICLE - Contemporary Theology In the Light of 100 Years
Kant thereafter claimed to kill reason to make room for faith, but his major achievement was actually to undermine all intellectual faith in the transcendent, as he called the supernatural, and to reduce religious knowledge to a dependence, upon a this-worldly morality.
The religious thinker became faced by the dilemma that if knowledge is univocal we do not go beyond this world; if it is equivocal, we can know nothing beyond this world.
No one who is sensitive to man's despair in the face of the evils and the brevity of life can help honor the liberal thinkers for their concerned faith and work in trying to keep the Christian Gospel and man's best knowledge together.
theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1958/v15-3-article8.htm   (3742 words)

  
 Rational Thinkers
Enlightened self-interest (along with a dose of altruism) is more than sufficient for the creation of a value system that most people could accept.
That is obvious today, where the ethics of the past, carrying the weight of religion, threaten to overcome somewhat more enlightened and developed ethical systems -- ones that don't call for hatred and condemnation for no better reason than because "God says so".
I cannot remember what I said, But as a rule If my message is intended for you, then Your name will be on the top line, otherwise it is probably a general statement.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/101_fun_stuff/25045/176832   (2940 words)

  
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Furthermore, it is an unusual motivating and living message to all contemporary, responsible individuals, especially those enlightened Muslims who energetically and persistently struggle to bring knowledge and awareness to the afflicted members of their society; and regardless of frustrations and oppositions, responsible Muslims remain firm in their efforts to overcome oppression.
If responsible enlightened souls in Muslim societies who are searching for a method, an ideology and a solution to the problems of their nation would return to the greatest book, they would learn the best lessons from it.
Is there no other underlying message in the ayat for those who are confronted with today's corrupt conditions and who, out of a sense of responsibility toward the future, try to identify their prob- ems?
www.umsl.edu /studentlife/msa/shariati/rome.html   (2943 words)

  
 Teodor Shanin. Chayanov Message   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The message is one of difference of operational logic, of output, and of outcome as well as of the possibility, at times, of actual retreat of the classical capitalist forms of production in face of family farming.
The splendid tradition of Russian rural studies was rooted in the regional authorities' (Zemstvo's) 1860s to 1917 effort that was introduced mostly by enlightened nobles and their employees within the "rural intelligentsia" to take account of and to improve the livelihood of the plebian populations in their charge, which was mostly rural and peasant.
The expression "economics" is somewhat misleading, in fact, as was the usual occupational designation of most of those involved as "rural statisticians of the Zemstvo." What evolved were peasantry-focused social sciences in their broader sense, merging the contemporary Western disciplines of economics, history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, demography, public medicine, agronomy, and ecology.
www.eng.yabloko.ru /Books/Shanin/chayanov.html   (7925 words)

  
 To All You Intellectually Dishonest 'Thinkers'
I would say, and I would bet that most 'critical thinkers' would agree, that most 'historical' or 'scientific' documents written before the 18th century would be pre-scientific in thought and content.
Yet these great thinkers (and I happen to be referring to astronomy in this instance, a great love of mine) are revered and treated with understanding and understood in the light of the times in which they wrote.
You enclose the phrase critical thinkers in quotation marks, indicating a change in meaning from what the phrase normally means; therefore, I cannot comment because I do not know how you intend this remark to be understood by the reader.
www.positiveatheism.org /mail/eml9981c.htm   (9855 words)

  
 ECETI - Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
This site is for the courageous free thinkers, those who wish to transcend scientific and religious dogma and instead make truth the ultimate priority.
When one has met these protocols they will most likely be contacted and become ambassadors of truth.
They are here now because we are at a crucial point in evolution, a shifting of the ages and need their help to get through some upcoming major Cosmic Events, and the tumultuous Social, Economic and Physical Earth Changes we are seeing now that will continue to escalate.
www.eceti.org /contact.htm   (1827 words)

  
 ILLUMINATI, or THE ENLIGHTENED
Any attempt to obtain from officers or members information relative to the identity of the members casting a negative ballot should be met with a statement of the law and a friendly admonition to obey it.
It seemed to me like the Pyramids in their loneliness, in whose yet undiscovered chambers may be hidden, for the enlightenment of coming generations, the sacred books of the Egyptians, so long lost to the world; like the Sphynx half buried in the desert.
Writing to his wife after the loss of their little girl, Plutarch commends to her the hope set forth in the mystic rites and symbols of this drama,: as, elsewhere, he testifies that it kept him "as far from superstition as from atheism," and helped him to ap- proach the truth.
www.mastermason.com /BrotherGene/craft/illuminati_or_the_enlightened.htm   (18134 words)

  
 Towards an Enlightened Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Revelation, as historically the primary source of human enlightenment, needs to be more adequately explained.
Islam's moral and ethical emphasis should be linked more to the achievement of enlightenment and happiness in this life, than to securing good fortunes in the next.
The focus ought to be on elaborating an Islamic perspective that is anchored in faith and morality, orientated to value, informed by reason, and committed to the human's quest for knowledge and good life.
www.islam21.net /sadek.html   (923 words)

  
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Thus, the message of Clement is threefold: Clement writes that the true source and inner revelation of the writings of Plato, is the same Logos attested to in the Gospel of John.
This inability of carnal man to comprehend the Mysteries of God is true with respect to what is reveled within the body of the text of the Greek philosophical mystery religions, as well as the very scriptures that modern Christians base their doctrines of belief upon.
This message, written in a widely acclaimed and accepted Christian book, is perhaps one of the finest examples of Gnosticism known to the modern-day religious world.
mystic.nazirene.org /SonOfGod.htm   (15336 words)

  
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And it is worth a lot of sacrifice to make the Parasite Woman over into an Awakened and Enlightened Member of Society, independent of the Man-Made System that has shackled her for so long.
Beside him stood a very slender lady, all dressed in apple green, with a long green wand in her hand, and on the end of the wand was an artificial apple blossom.
But, you know, commonplace people never appreciate the efforts that serious thinkers make for them, and Aunt Evelyn refused to come to the table at all when dinner was announced.
www.bralyn.net /etext/literature/don.marquis/hlgst11.txt   (22185 words)

  
 Paramahansa Yogananda - Great Thinkers - Ajna Spirituality
It was in 1910, at the age of 17, that he met and became a disciple of the revered Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri.
His unusual life-document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West.
It has been my privilege to have met one of the sages whose life-history is herein narrated-Sri Yukteswar Giri.
www.ajna.com /great_thinkers/yogananda.php   (4307 words)

  
 A Biographical Dictionary of ... Freethinkers
Bruno was a thinker of very superior intellect, a Pantheist, dazed by a world in which he found Protestants as intolerant as Catholics and hampered in his speculations by the poverty of science in his day.
One if the leading French thinkers of the early 19th century, member of the Academy and Minister of Public Instruction, and translator and editor of the works of Plato, Proclus, Descartes, and Abelard (27 vols.).
He was, like nearly all the Greek thinkers, a dogmatic materialist, but he said there might be gods, or a small colony of what we should call (material) supermen, in some remote part of the universe, not interested in the earth.
www.infidels.org /library/historical/joseph_mccabe/dictionary.html   (19428 words)

  
 Proper forum for "Racialist Thinkers" - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
They are regarded the top brass of thinkers - yet only a few people know that they had clear racialist views...
Their influence—and that of the new European explorers of other continents—was important at the University of Gottingen, founded in 1734 by George 11, Elector of Hanover and King of England, and forming a cultural bridge between Britain and Germany.
Of course, the Jewish media wants to create the impression that "enlightened", "educated" "intellectuals" are all leftists and that only uneducated brutes are racialists.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=175532   (1806 words)

  
 Free Dartmouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Assume for a moment, I tell my students, that it was you, or your brother, or your boyfriend or your son, who was accused of rape by a casual date with a history of psychiatric problems, or by a woman he met in a bar who had a history of one-night stands.
The message of the substantive law to men, and to women, should be made clear.
The message of the substantive law must be distinguished from the constitutional standards of proof.
freedartmouth.blogspot.com /2003_10_19_freedartmouth_archive.html   (5385 words)

  
 Message from Zoketsu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We’d met the sister of one of Aron’s friends, who lived in the Cotswolds, a famous walking place, and had arranged to meet her, and to be launched on our tour from there.
Certainly material changes (say, in the body, as with aging, or coming to physical maturity) register, and emotional changes register (being emotionally traumatized and healing from that trauma), which is why it makes sense to us to pay our doctors and psychotherapists.
But spiritual changes are very subtle- to the point where one could question (as so many of the key thinkers of the Twentieth Century did question) whether they exist or not.
www.everydayzen.org /message.asp   (13753 words)

  
 Thinkers.net TALK
Is not determined by the few or the rich or the enlightened or the powerful or the poor or the weak or the meager or the truthful or the honest or the average or the common or the doubtful or the decisive or the in.
Time is time and it will rule us all now and maybe we together can master that twist turn divide choose relent walk talk spend hold hug kiss feel that ours is now.
ENTER key twice to make a new para in your message.
thinkers.net /talk/messages/120/1308.html?1100294928   (433 words)

  
 Enlightened Partnership Newsletter - June 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We are deeply inspired by Barbara Marx Hubbard's example as a wise elder on the path whose vision and message never waivers or falters.
In fact, the evolutionary perspective on the multiple crises we face personally and globally are that they are "evolutionary drivers", circumstances that force us to evolve or regress.
Permission is granted to reproduce, copy or distribute Enlightened Partnership so long as this copyright notice and full information about contacting the authors is attached.
www.enlightenedpartners.com /newsletter/6-03newsletter.htm   (2191 words)

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