The Enlightenment The eighteenth century's most exciting intellectual movement is called the Enlightenment. ... The turn toward what became known by 1750 as the Enlightenment began in the late seventeenth century. ... This ideal fired the imagination of the leaders of the Enlightenment, who gradually became known as philosophes, simply French for "philosophers." ... The French philosophes were the most outspoken and most radical of the century, and to this day when thinking of the Enlightenment, France is the first to come to mind. Late in the eighteenth century, Kant gave the mos...

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In this way, truth, freedom, love, clear perception, purity, transcendence, and enlightenment are all the very same thing. ... Total knowledge is here -- it is the realization of one truth, it is what to more muddled perceptions might be referred to as omnipotence, enlightenment; and when perceived is perceived means to communicate telepathically, to know clairvoyantly and prophetically, and to control and manipulate the various tangible (physical) and non-tangible 'distinguishments' that are the reality on the '! ... Thus, the journey for enlightenment and awareness of all thin...

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In the immortal words of Bob Dylan, " These times, they are changing," a symbolic message, echoes in the form of a relationship between the self and the world of a reality created by the eyes of the beholder. This reality of perception, manifested by the individual, is constantly evolving through e...

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In the age of medieval Christian thought, classical authorities reigned supreme as the ultimate source of knowledge about what was right and what was wrong. This, however, in the age of Christian humanist thought, was challenged by two writers in particular, Francois Rabelais and Michel de Montaigne. In their writings, they criticize European acceptance of dogma and what modern thinkers would today term "book knowledge,"" or learning without thinking carefully about what they learned. Throughout both of their works, Montaigne and Rabelais cite many past writers in a show of respect for the...

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