The Enlightenment marked the rise of "reason" as its leaders advocated free, rational thinking and pursuit of knowledge. Although the idea behind Enlightenment allowed for great progress in social and scientific matters, some believed that Enlightenment thinkers were still not getting at the essence of what it meant to be self-conscious and rational individuals. ... In their works, "On the Marionette Theater" and Puss-in-Boots respectively, Kleist and Tieck use the common theme of self-reflexivity to challenge the tenets of Enlightenment and present their own views on the w...

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Everyone has their own idea of enlightenment. ... In Buddhism, the idea of enlightenment is knowing yourself. ... This is the relationship between enlightenment and passion. ... Wollstonecraft opens enlightenment to the realm of passion. ... Enlightenment thinking has changed the world. ...

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All professed to be devout Zen Buddhists in search of Enlightenment. ... Because Ray has realized this phenomenon, he is closer to Enlightenment, at least according to the Sutra. The Sutra also says that the practice of good works purifies the mind and is referred to as "Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment."" ... Japhy made hard labor his life's work so much so that he didn't even think of it as work, rather he embraced it as an opportunity for gaining enlightenment. ... I'm sure that Kerouac and his comrades ran into hoards of these individuals while traveling the pa...

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To reach enlightenment one should see reality not as a fixed point but as all of reality. ... Finally, in an end of his quest for enlightenment, Niki must approach the Zen masters with his solution. ... Through the quest for enlightenment Niki realizes that everything he could want in life is found in the sand pit with the woman. ... At each step Niki shows the struggles of the student in search of enlightenment. ... In every step of the Zen student Niki is there, fraught with the struggle of finding enlightenment. ...

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Some of the extraordinary stories encountered on this path to enlightenment I believe not to be true, while others of seeming importance and grandness, I choose to believe. ... It has taught me that enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. So waiting for enlightenment to happen is not the way to get things done, going after your problems and tackling those leads us to a more enlightened life. Realizing that our small problems could be so much bigger and that worry and guilt only lead to unhappiness is a realization that enlightenment is not attainment. ...

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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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About all of the places, characters and even actions leads the reader to realise that the journey the main character Marlow is taking will result in some kind of enlightenment for him. ... This quotation directs the reader's attention to Buddha and what he symbolises; "The word Buddha means "enlightened- or "awakened- and is a title given to those who have attained the supreme state of perfect enlightenment and awakening -. ...

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The Realizations Of Life The poem I chose to write about is William Wordsworth's "Ode : Intimations of immortality from Recollections of early Childhood" .The poem is about a man that is explaining his enlightenment in his mortality. ...

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The enlightenment portrayed through modernity was shaped by a lot of Philosophers, Astronomers, Scientists and many others. ... The enlightenment that Descartes sparked in people led to major society changing Revolutions such as the French Revolution. ...

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Socrates believes that the everyday world is an illusion compared to the world of knowledge. People are often too distracted by money and materialistic things to appreciate truth and reality. Socrates says, "the capacity for knowledge is innate in each man's mind." This exemplifies the point that ma...

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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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