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	Enlightenment (concept) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enlightenment or illumination is a fundamental philosophical concept which grew beyond religion and spirituality and essentially means being illuminated by acquiring new wisdom or understanding.
		The "Age of Enlightenment" is a proverbial time of maturing in people, -- roughly around the age of 18 years -- when the illusions of childhood lift, and one is left with greater self-awareness and understanding of their own roles and responsibilities in the world.
		This is analogous to the Christian-adopted concept of being "born-again" and is a direct tie between the spiritual teachings of The Christ, Jesus and Buddha.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enlightenment_(concept) (1411 words)

	Enlightenment (concept) Details, Meaning Enlightenment (concept) Article and Explanation Guide
		This intellectual history of term "enlightenment" is the basis for the secular idea that relates to a localized, religion-specific "enlightenment", and also attempts to bridge the traditional gap between religions and religious belief and psychological science.
		The "age of enlightenment" is a proverbial time of maturing in people -- roughly around the age of 18 years -- when the illusions of childhood lift, and one is left with greater self-awareness and understanding of their own roles and responsibilities in the world.
		This is analogous to the Christian-adopted concept of being "born-again" and is a direct tie between the spiritual teachings of The Christ, Jesus and Buddha.
	www.e-paranoids.com /e/en/enlightenment__concept_.html (684 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: T.W. Adorno on Kant, the Division of Labor & Restriction of Reason
		The first is that in Kant enlightenment always refers to thought that does not allow itself to be dictated to; you have to have the courage to think for yourself as far as possible according to the principle of autonomy, that is, the laws of thought.
		But enlightenment does not really mean to be critical of the structures of objective spirit, that is, to be critical of whatever is not thought.
		We may say, then, that the concept of enlightenment in Kant is subjectively restricted from the outset: it is restricted to the way the individual behaves within the world of his own thoughts.
	www.autodidactproject.org /quote/adorno11dv.html (1169 words)

	Enlightenment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enlightenment (concept), a concept in mysticism, philosophy and psychology
		Age of Enlightenment, a period in European history
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enlightenment (116 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Enlightenment (concept) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Enlightenment as a concept, is related to the Buddhist Bodhi.
		Moksha is seen as a final release from one's worldly conception of self, the loosening of the shackle of experiential duality and a re-establishment in one's own fundamental nature, though the nature is seen as ineffable and beyond sensation.
		The concept is essentially of self-dissolution in love, since the ideal nature of being is seen as that of harmony, euphony, its manifest essence being love.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Moksha (1384 words)

	ENLIGHTENMENT AND TIME: AN EXAMINATION OF NAGARJUNA'S CONCEPT OF TIME
		Enlightenment means that one understands the equation of samsara and nirvana, or the emptiness of the life world.
		One is reminded of the Zen conception of "walking enlightenment" described in the Sutra of Hui Neng: "Let the essence of mind and all phenomenal objects be in a state of thusness.
		The relation of these conceptions time and enlightenment, which grew out of later Buddhist thought, to specific passages in Nagarjuna is admittedly speculative, but their indebtedness to the spirit of Nagarjuna's great masterpiece, I think, is not.
	members.tripod.com /SpEd2work/nagarjuna.html (4112 words)

	Spiritual Enlightenment personal experience path essay definition
		Enlightenment has to be experienced to understand the gains behind it.
		The path to enlightenment is not a hazardous one...
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	www.godrealized.com /enlightenment.html (1801 words)

	Journal of Religion & Film: When The Master Is Not Master:The Critque of Enlightenment in Ang Lee's Crouching ...
		Enlightenment is that awkward English word that attempts to roughly correspond to the Buddhist notion of bodhi, a term usually used synonymously with nirvana.
		One is enlightenment as a general structure of mastery, a blend of the enlightenment of meditating monks and martial arts masters with the enlightenment of reasonable philosophers and the bourgeois sovereigns who inherit their power.
		Buddhist enlightenment is an exit from a perspective on the self that creates suffering; thus it engenders a kind of freedom from suffering (or at least the ordinary perception of suffering).
	www.unomaha.edu /jrf/Vol7No2/masternotmaster.htm (5723 words)

	Oneness, Enlightenment and the Mystical Experience - The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
		Enlightenment is the way hierarchy is brought in by viewing a few individuals as special channels for, and greater manifestations of, this underlying unity.
		However, the idea of enlightenment as a state of finality that one reaches once and for all is a viewpoint of wisdom and spirituality that is supposedly true for all people and all times.
		Concepts of unity are very appealing, since it is increasingly obvious that divisiveness and uncaring self-interest are paramount causes of why the planet is becoming unfit for life.
	www.mimbres.com /holp/holpath/kramer/oneness.htm (7575 words)

	The Bodhisattva Concept
		The concept of bodhisattva, along with that of Buddha and of the cakravartin (world-ruler), was in vogue in India even before the appearance of Gautama Buddha.
		Later, its use was extended to denote the period from Gautama's conception to the enlightenment and, thereafter, to all the Buddhas from their conception to Buddhahood.
		Hence it would appear that the concept of the bodhisattva could be divided into two parts, the original concept and the concept developed by later Buddhists.
	www.purifymind.com /BodhisattvaConcept.htm (4588 words)

	Tai Chi as Inner Alchemy practice - Healing Tao USA Trust
		This secret Tai Chi for Enlightenment or Primordial Qigong form was taught to me by the 81-year old Zhu Hui, a kindly Chinese master with a smile that made your heart melt.
		It is an enlightenment term, describing the stage where female yin (condensing) chi and male yang (expanding) chi flow in harmony.
		There is no way to guarantee enlightenment, as that involves subjective perception which varies from person to person.
	www.taichi-enlightenment.com (7012 words)

	Enlightenment
		Apart from the danger of tautology – namely that the philosophy of the eighteenth century is the philosophy of the Enlightenment because the Enlightenment is the eighteenth century – the concept of Enlightenment is either too wide or too narrow to capture the philosophical riches of the century.
		The philosophical differences between the two founders of the modern concept of the history of philosophy, Reid and Kant, were, of course, profound, but there was a striking similarity in their reactions to the immediate philosophical past.
		Isolated Cases: The Anxieties of Autonomy in Enlightenment Philosophy and Romantic Literature by Nancy Yousef (Cornell University Press) The literature of the romantic period has consistently been seen as the source of modern concepts of the individual.
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/enlightenment (3391 words)

	RaceI.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is rather that the concept of race was not accidentally born simultaneously with the Enlightenment, and that the Enlightenment's "ontology", rooted in the new science of the 17th century, created a vision of human beings in nature which inadvertently provided weapons to a new race-based ideology which would have been impossible without the Enlightenment.
		The collapse of the idea of Adam (15), the common ancestor of all human beings, was an unintended side effect of the Enlightenment critique of religion, which was aimed first of all at the social power of the Church and, after the religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries, at religion generally.
		The impulse, conditioned by the Anglo-French Enlightenment, to overlook the entwining of the Enlightenment and racism, is part of the same impulse that downplays the significance of pre-Enlightenment developments in Spain in shaping the modern world.
	home.earthlink.net /~lrgoldner/raceI.html (5828 words)

	DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The prognosis of the related conversion of enlightenment into positivism, the myth of things as they actually are, and finally the identification of intellect and that which is inimical to the spirit, has been overwhelmingly confirmed.
		Enlightenment discerns it not merely in unclarified concepts and words, as demonstrated by semantic language-criticism, but in any human assertion that has no place in the ultimate context of self-preservation.
		The priests always avenged mana on the prophet of enlightenment, who propitiated mana by a terror-stricken attitude to what went by the name of terror, and the augurs of the Enlightenment were one with the priests in their hybris.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/adorno5.htm (14554 words)

	AikiWeb Aikido Forums - Gaining Enlightenment?
		If you are interested in the Buddhist concept of enlightenment and how to obtain it, then you may want to take a look at www.buddhanet.net, where they address many of your questions.
		By the nature of the case the term 'Enlightenment' means that it can not be explained to the rational, logical mind that is looking for something in the future, the seeking mind.
		Enlightenment is realised when you no longer have an identification with the mind and thought process.
	www.aikiweb.com /forums/printthread.php?t=8219 (3432 words)

	Enlightenment and Time: An Examiniation of Nagarjuna's Concept of Time
		As in the case of causality, Nagarjuna establishes the relativity of two mutually dependent conceptions, and the inapplicability of identity and difference: "Neither the identity nor the essential difference is established regarding the two conceptions goer and act of going" (2.21).
		Whatever significance we may attach to the phrase "blessed cessation-of-appearance of existing things" (and it may be the "cessation" of time), this much seems clear: there is an appeal to a higher level of truth, a "blessed state," that transcends whatever is to be gained (or not gained) through assertions and logical disputations.
		Nargarjuna seems to be alluding to an enlightened apprehension of reality -- and it is almost as if he has prepared us for this by first attacking common sense apprehensions of causality, then, by degrees, challenging us on progressively more intractable concepts, such as motion and space.
	www.gis.net /~tbirch/nagar2fiu.htm (3457 words)

	Spiritual Enlightenment
		Enlightenment does not involve simply the perception that the person is only a concept.
		Sometimes enlightenment means the attainment of a certain stage of Being.
		Enlightenment is partly the realization that you are responsible in your life, that your life is completely your responsibility, and you are the one who really has to live it.
	www.ahalmaas.com /glossary/e/enlightenment.htm (311 words)

	geertz
		It neatly sets a mid-20th century view of culture in opposition to the typical Enlightenment view that the superficial diversity of culture masks an underlying - and readily discovered - universal uniformity: the homogeniety of humanity.
		The Enlightenment view of man was, of course, that he was wholly of a piece with nature and shared in the general uniformity of composition which natural science, under Bacon's urging and Newton's guidance, had discovered there.
		The stage setting (in different times and places) is, indeed, altered, the actors change their garb and their appearance; but their inward motions arise from the same desires and passions of men, and produce their effects in the vicissitudes of kingdoms and peoples.
	instruct.uwo.ca /anthro/025/geertz.htm (587 words)

	Secrets Of Enlightenment Revealed
		Because Enlightenment is not a state of mind nor a way of thinking.
		Enlightenment, of course, also exists during thought but that is not so easy to understand when a seeker is blinded by erroneous beliefs.
		The realisation of enlightenment is beyond the reach of words.
	www.enlightenment-now.com /meetings/2007/0409_secrets_of_enlightenment_revealed.html (391 words)

	Enlightenment
		Enlightenment (concept), a concept in mysticism, philosophy and psychology
		Age of Enlightenment, a period in European history
		Enlightenment (X window manager), an X Window System window manager
	articles.gourt.com /en/Enlightenment (94 words)

	Seeing Through Seventeenth Century Eyes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is the concept that, with some modifications, many of us still carry around today.
		From this concept is built our entire world view concerning the nature of society, politics, government, authority, economics, and even science.
		It would not be unfair to say that a culture's concept of an individual underlies every aspect of the culture's world view.
	www.wsu.edu:8000 /~dee/111/4.HTM (243 words)

	The Age of the "World Picture": Hermeneutics and Weltanschauung Theory
		No doubt there are many factors that have contributed to this contemporary apÂpraisal, but one factor keeps imposing itself as a common theme in the literature, and it is this: the historical situatedness of human beings, and the concommitant historically conditioned, and presuppositional nature of the process of understanding and knowÂing.
		Being historically conditioned, being within a historical situation, being imÂmersed in a historical traditionâ”all this means that the epistemologist, as well as the historian, must come to terms with the inescapable finitude of his perÂspective and abandon the claim to a presuppositionless and a-historical reason which can achieve an absolutely translucent historical self-understanding.
		The concept of the life-world is the antithesis of all objectivism.
	www.leaderu.com /philosophy/ageworldpicture.html (10178 words)

	Enlightenment Freethought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The concept of freethinking is an approach, whereas the historical development of freethinking is a movement.
		Collins was also in touch with many other major thinkers of the Enlightenment era, through correspondence, ongoing debate published in articles and pamphlets, international recognition of his several books, and by the personal acquaintance afforded by the salon parties of English high society.
		Locke’s deism followed the Enlightenment concept that reason itself was the way to goodness, thus for them the Christian ideal became synonymous with reasonableness.
	www.iserv.net /~merriman/freethgt.htm (4467 words)

	Nan T. Ball, The Reemergence of Enlightenment Ideas in the 1994 French Bioethics Debates, 50 Duke L. J. 545 (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Through a joint analysis of the French laws and the literary and political tracts of Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this Note demonstrates that the questions posed by Enlightenment philosophers were reformulated in the bioethics debates with a new sense of urgency.
		During the Enlightenment, nature was associated with numerous metaphors, including the images of a benevolent mother, an ever-faithful servant, and even a treacherous enemy.
		Enlightenment thinkers believed that the foundation of justice, the social order, and the common good could be derived from these natural laws.
	www.law.duke.edu /journals/dlj/articles/dlj50p545.htm (14800 words)

	South Carolina Connections of the Tartan Transformation Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A key focus of the Tartan Transformation Project is to build the initial framework of all parts of the concept within the boundaries of South Carolina.
		Enlightenment by helping to build capacities of transformation in their local communities.
		The Second Enlightenment Connections Collection honors the past of Scotland, while foretelling of new ideas ready to emerge from the intricate background of historical patterns.
	tartan.communitiesofthefuture.org /south-carolina-connections.html (922 words)

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