Enlightenment

	Reference/Meaning	Formula
#1	The humanisation of everyday activity: an intentional process in social life involving the mutual influence of ultimate values and principal objects.	PH6K-L7B↔ L4B
#2	Attainment of a sustained ultimate experience of oneness of all things, non-dual cognition, clear light, utter awareness, and dissolution of the individuated personality into the universal mind, God or Absolute Reality. Syn:moksha, wu, satori, zazen, nirvana.
#3	A philosophical approach emerging in the 18th century that elevated the individual, reason and science above community, tradition and religious edicts. Noted thinkers in this tradition included: Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Mill.

 

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Last updated: 15-Jan-2014