| 单词 | the age of enlightenment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Age of Enlightenment b. spec. Usually with capital initial. The action or process of freeing human understanding from the accepted and customary beliefs sanctioned by traditional, esp. religious, authority, chiefly by rational and scientific inquiry into all aspects of human life, which became a characteristic goal of philosophical writing in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Frequently in the Age of Enlightenment (cf. sense 2).Closely associated with sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1825 A. Pichot Hist. & Lit. Tour Foreigner in Eng. & Scotl. II. xc. 422 We did all that in France, and worse still, to the shame of the age of enlightenment be it spoken. 1836 N. Amer. Rev. July 176 When he [sc. Tieck] made his first appearance, it was, under the banner of Nicolai, as one of the Berlin advocates of enlightenment and reason, and enemies of superstition and mysticism. 1865 J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel I. p. lxvi Aufklärung, Illumination, Enlightenment, destroyed Greece; it lowered man from Spirit to Animal. 1889 E. Caird Crit. Philos. Kant I. 69 The individualistic tendencies of the age of Enlightenment. 1939 M. Praz Stud. 17th-Cent. Imagery I. iv. 184 Iconology during the period of enlightenment in philosophy and in literature, takes the place held by emblematics during the age of the Jesuits and the Baroque. 1974 tr. W. F. Wertheim Evol. & Revol. 173 A-religious rationalism was the prevalent trend of thinking in the Age of Enlightenment. 2006 D. R. Kelley Frontiers of Hist. i. 31 German historians continued to promote the national-imperial ideal over the false universalism of Humanism and Enlightenment. < as lemmas |
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