How To Use Enlightened In A Sentence

Outrages like the Thomas case make it a good deal more difficult for enlightened penal reformers like the Professor to get a fair hearing when they advocate bringing back the lash.
When in the following October the nobody met Katsu Kaishu, the enlightened commissioners of the shogun's navy, it might have been with intent to assassinate him.
People who have a broad interest in the subject but who lack the historical and ideological framework for a fuller, informed reading, will be gently and entertainingly enlightened here.
He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse.
And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.

This bespeaks a progressive, enlightened court, hardly stifling and revolt-inducing.
Holiness answers audience questions addressing the situation of Tibet, goal of bodhicitta, nature of enlightened mind, future of the Dalai Lama institution, compatibility of Buddhist practices with theistic faith, universal purpose of human life, practice of patience towards harm-doers, subtle energy and mind, and the Heart Sutra mantra. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
Perhaps you wonder how so numerous a race of these beings has come to exist; but that boy at your elbow, bending under the weight of his literary burden, is a colporteur for converting the men and women of this "enlightened nation" to rowdyism. The Elements of Character
I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
How grateful and enlightened he must be to have that cleared up: one wouldn't want a thicko to write one's autobiography.
The ban continued right into the early seventies before giving away to more enlightened thinking.
The first question that occurs to the enlightened enquirer, when he learns that the functions of the brain have been positively determined by experiment, is whether the cranioscopy of Gall and Spurzheim was successful in locating the cerebral functions, and how nearly their inferences from development correspond with the revelations of experiment. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9
But the guy continued hectoring me to watch more episodes so that I might become enlightened and see the error of my ways.
We need some enlightened planning to redesign and rebuild all our depressed urban areas in a way that may prove more cost beneficial than all the other remedial measures put together.
On the contrary, it should be to rekindle and harness the ambition of the Victorians for a more tolerant and enlightened age. Times, Sunday Times
The title is in honour of Australia’s first female deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, jibe from the enlightened Mr Heffernan – stating she was unfit for leadership because she was” deliberately barren”. Archive 2008-09-01
With his reputation as an enlightened, well-informed senior High Court judge, Lord Bonomy is unafraid to take on the government of the day.
No man can laugh at the idea of esper powers, as the so-called enlightened once did. The Zero Stone
Thoughtful jazz lovers of all degrees of musical literacy ought to be delighted and enlightened by Gioia's yeomanly effort.
The saddhu or enlightened Hindu masters are taken care of, even deified, so that they may continue to apprehend the Absolute and astonish us mere mortals with their insights.
When this arises together with the aspiration to attain full enlightenment, then you have realized bodhichitta, that is, the altruistic intention to become fully enlightened for the sake of all sentient beings. Training the Mind: Verse 7
It has come to spread strange new tastes from an advanced enlightened civilization.
The child thought the world was flat until I enlightened him!
Blinding hatred and contempt seem to be common reactions among the enlightened elites.
For a great number in both the academic world and in the public, apocalyptic thought is directly antithetical to the supposedly enlightened and rational methodology of science.
For the sake of enlightened economic self-interest they must, however, work more closely together.
Social change and political challenges divided Afrikaner verligtes (the enlightened) from verkramptes (cramped conservatives).
Here, then, Alberti is speaking to would-be patrons and laying the groundwork for enlightened and responsible artistic commissions.
I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
Here it refers to the elementary education that starts with learning to read and getting enlightened.
I've tried to find a balance between integrity and enlightened self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
More surprising is the fact that even the most enlightened and computer-literate parents choose to put the family computer in the son's bedroom, thereby creating access problems for a daughter who would rather like to use it, too.
Within the political class, it is standard fare to bemoan lack of engagement among the unenlightened masses.
This enlightened point of view has meanwhile been abandoned, and under the influence of the ologists, the child is defined as totally devoid of sexual desires, at least where adults are concerned.
My hoop felt like a magical portal into an enlightened plane of beingness, oneness. Hooping.org | Blog | Sarah Hundley's Pursuit of Hoopiness
Since then we have made enormous technical progress and become more enlightened in our attitudes to preserving the environment. Times, Sunday Times
Now, so it is in the interest, the enlightened self-interest of the developed world to help the developing world to get over their problem.
Its education ministry has introduced the enlightened policy that its schools must teach all world religions equally. Times, Sunday Times
These displays soon became celebrated as exemplars of enlightened princely patronage and magnificence.
Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality. Arabian nights. English
Having argued that the right of slavery, if it exist, implies the right to shoot and murder an enlightened neighbor, with a view to reduce his wife and children to a state of servitude, as well as to crush their intellectual and moral nature in order to keep them in such a state, the author adds, "If I err in making these inferences, I _err innocently_. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order
The more enlightened males of the time were equally pleased. Times, Sunday Times
The way to inspire your kids is with the inspiration of enlightened self-interest.
As one noted expert on Jewish mysticism explains, even for an enlightened saint, a tzaddik, not every judgment is flawless. Steve Posner: Why Have The Beatles Returned to Maharishi?
Helping now is more than an act of conscience; it is also an act of enlightened self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
Their language contrasted with that of the eighteenth-century reformers who had entrusted the mission of modernity and progress to enlightened rulers.
Thanks to the heroic efforts of enlightened local people who understand that short-term sacrifice is worth the long-term benefit of conserving resources for future generations, many Philippine reefs are now healthier than when I first started working there. Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS)
The school has an enlightened policy of teaching boys to cook.
They must decide whether to vote out of a sense of duty to the past or out of enlightened self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
Thankfully there are many more enlightened towns and villages in the area that welcome visitors however they may travel.
Is he not accounted an exemplary citizen "and a pretty tall talker" in his own neighbourhood, and where on "the univarsal airth" would you find a more enlightened public opinion? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
It restored my confidence and my optimism, and I felt embraced by these many wonderful enlightened spirits.
Priests have to remain very pure and need a wife who is as spiritually enlightened as they are.
In this regard we in our time are strangely unenlightened.
Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened.
An enlightened consumer not only protects his interest, but also acts as a responsible and responsive customer, and an asset to the society.
But what possessed Kinnock, Hattersley, and our more enlightened baronesses?
In front of the town there are high and mighty cliffs which were enlightened with strong lights, put up by my uncle, an electrician working for the town.
If Bradford is serious about being seen as a modern city with enlightened views, a good animal welfare programme is crucial.
He had a great respect for the priesthood, and has left many a charming and sympathetic picture of the parish _cure_, such as l'Abbe Janvier in "Le Medecin de Campagne," who acts hand in hand with the good doctor Benassis, as an enlightened benefactor to the poor; or l'Abbe Bonnet, the hero of "Le Cure du Village," whose face had "the impress of faith, an impress giving the stamp of the human greatness which approaches most nearly to divine greatness, and of which the undefinable expression beautifies the most ordinary features. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him. Osho
Not just right-wing reactionaries, either, but people of enlightened education and humane outlook.
They must decide whether to vote out of a sense of duty to the past or out of enlightened self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
I must say that the most enlightened thing you said in your post was, in an odd analogy, that the reason university faculty politics become so bitter and fractious is because there is "... so little at stake," That´s it precisely. The Lake Chapala Society
But in an enlightened modern democracy, should one be put into a position to have to do so? Times, Sunday Times
Changing the workplace, rather than the workforce, is a more enlightened policy. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
The provision of perinatal and paediatric pathology services is a sign of an enlightened society.
They argued that discussion led to verity and gave enlightened public opinion the force of law.
The soul chooses to remain in darkness, unevolved and unenlightened.
The result of this is that production of wealth is derogated, seen as the domain of the poor, the shiftless, the stupid, and the foreign, while the really important tasks—increasing the quantity of money that one holds—is the job for an educated and enlightened person. Archive 2009-05-01
What the ignorant see as evil, the enlightened see as the actions of low-minded and immature individuals.
Colonel Storrs is the very last man to be called militaristic in the narrow sense; he is a particularly liberal and enlightened type of the sort of English gentleman who readily served his country in war, but who is rather particularly fitted to serve her in politics or literature. The New Jerusalem
If you go back to John Flynn's Roosevelt Myth, you can find similar statements from FDR in his 1932 campaign the first of three New Deals - it wasn't until he got elected that they decided they would actually have to do something and therefore adopted the more enlightened Italian "corporative" program. Wisdom from the Great Depression: Who Said It?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Does the creation of such an enlightened tag presage a whole series of such musings? Spare me misplaced cries of 'sexism'
Nearly all the kind things people do in the world are done in the name of enlightened self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
Enlightened self-interest, then, is the cri de coeur of the liberal interventionists.
The author's treatment of the plagues is enlightened by his knowledge of ancient Egypt; he draws out their symbolic significance as a direct challenge to the pagan beliefs and gods of Egypt.
Feminists should be delighted by their enlightened commitment to sexual equality, their assumption that what's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose, too. Africa, AIDS, and multiple concurrent relationships
Later, descendants of these selfsame clerics would carry their precious cargo to European monasteries where the Italian, the German and the Frenchman waited to be enlightened.
Nevertheless, this second favor was rarely granted; there was an infinity of claims, blind as well as enlightened, as it may please you now to call them.
It turns out there are common ideals of distributive justice — or perhaps enlightened self-interest following a destructive war — that exist outside the sauve-qui-peut imagination of Liberal/libertarians. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most
She credits her employer's enlightened attitude to flexible working as a factor in her success. Times, Sunday Times
Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul. Santosh Kalwar
In this way, all unenlightened experience is fabricated by the various aspects of the mind as it generates a false self and projects delusory objects onto reality.
If any American has ever, for a moment, admitted the idea of consenting to a separation of the Union, let him read the burning words of this enlightened and disinterested foreigner, and blush for his want of comprehension of the true interests and glory of his country. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The enlightened founders were eager to produce a universal creed that they could throw like a tent over the diverse church religions.
Theology on two archaic ideas which had already been condemned by enlightened Athenians of the fourth century before our era, _ideas which no one would dream of upholding in these days, though the structure built upon them still subsists_. The Necessity of Atheism
In the Hindu Upanishads, the soul's flight in the sky appears as one of the six siddhis or supernormal powers attained by the enlightened.
It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.
Those kinds of beliefs are not held by enlightened, intelligent people.
Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics which concern only the interests of eternity; the men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a commonplace censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
The Brecon Beacons setting and enlightened booking policy make this a gentle gem. Times, Sunday Times
In later times the most enlightened heathen nations indulged in the sin of Sodom without compunction or shame. are set forth -- before our eyes. suffering -- undergoing to this present time; alluding to the marks of volcanic fire about the Dead Sea. the vengeance -- Greek, "righteous retribution." eternal fire -- The lasting marks of the fire that consumed the cities irreparably, is a type of the eternal fire to which the inhabitants have been consigned. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They are up to speed in this enlightened world in praising the dramatisation of the sub-culture with the abundance of obscenity and foul language.
Where doubt is talked about quite a bit in the Dharma is the sort of doubt that leaves one being vague and woolly, so you sort of think, oh, I can't meditate, or I could never be enlightened.
But some enlightened beings, called bodhisattvas, defer their nirvana, returning to human form to help others free themselves from the cycle.
That might contain the violence and it's Just conceivable that in time an enlightened general will find a way to hand back power to civilians. Times, Sunday Times
The deal is a pension prototype for enlightened employers
Behind his numerous reforms lay a comprehensive program influenced by the doctrines of enlightened absolutism, natural law, mercantilism, and physiocracy. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Nearly all the kind things people do in the world are done in the name of enlightened self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
I am, moreover, sceptical _because the very persons to whom to-day we have to look to effect the sexual enlightenment of children, are themselves to a great extent also in need of enlightenment_; and in respect of many of the questions about which the child has to be enlightened, no general harmony of scientific opinion can as yet be said to obtain. The Sexual Life of the Child
If enlightened despotism was a passing fancy, it must also be admitted that not all the philosophes agreed with the virtues of political liberalism either.
This book suggests that if you can achieve forgiveness, the side effect of forgiveness is a form of enlightened self-interest.
That is an example of enlightened management, if you will excuse the pun. Times, Sunday Times
What, then, are you and I but sentient units in one great evolving process of life-activity and thought; and yet so circumvolved in that process that the impulse, which we irradiate from the point of our single particular seat of energy and feeling, thrills through the vast spheres of human purpose and endeavor, and raises the standard of truth or forwards the advance of enlightened order like each rhythmic melody is gathered in the mightier confluence of chime and strain to swell the torrent of a mighty symphony. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
Somehow there is a tone in these case studies that patients/clients are lunkheads and I am the enlightened one.
“The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.” Think Progress » Rubio: ‘I Don’t Think Any Of Us Are Going To Blame Israel’ If They Decide To Attack Iran
The American masses are perceived as apathetic sluggards, whose votes would be better exercised by enlightened foreign observers.
Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened , heed only one side and you will be benighted.
If you're not enlightened, Savemart is this big second-hand barn of a store nestled in the industrial sprawl of northern Te Rapa.
He therefore cleverly and perceptively shows through this creative example how an ‘enlightened false consciousness’ might arise from excessive introspection.
This will require a significant shift in human consciousness from the selfish to the selfless, from the competitor to the cooperator, from the ignorant to the enlightened.
The first chapter describes enlightened attempts to civilise two boys who seem to have been ineducable.
There, an enlightened public official is pursuing a policy of “transversalidad” transversality, which we might translate as “cross-cutting collaboration,” getting people out of their departmental “silos” to work together. Transversality, Part One
You would be forgiven for thinking that such sentiments had been mouthed by a male chauvinist in the 19th century, or that they are perhaps a parody of our ancestors' unenlightened mindset.
He 's altogether too fine and wise and enlightened to think that a man should spend his days in cherishing a woman merely because he went through the form of marriage with her in church. Oldtown Folks
(In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a "bodhisattva" is an enlightened being who refuses Nirvana and stays in this world to help others.) RJ Eskow: Redemption Song: Ted Kennedy Through Allen Ginsberg's Eyes
Listen to the one on American college food and college funding to feel not only enlightened, but also slightly appalled. Times, Sunday Times
A more enlightened spirituality is ever changing and open to new ideas.
Going the organic route has made me feel more enlightened, like I know better than you mere paraben, BHT cream-slapping mortals. Karim Orange: The Better Organic God (BOG)
“The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.” Think Progress » Rubio: ‘I Don’t Think Any Of Us Are Going To Blame Israel’ If They Decide To Attack Iran
I haven't in three years seen a row of gazania (that pink flower, someone finally enlightened me to its name on Flickr) that glorious, and the revived chili plant is in bloom! Cheezy cheeky
Within the philosophy of mind, an eliminativist materialism is the most radical form of materialism as it further posits that mental states (e.g., desire, hope) are not real, do not truly exist, but rather are artifacts of a "folk psychology," artifacts that neuroscience and other purportedly pure scientific disciplines will some day, at some more enlightened point in the future, vanquish. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Gnostics read their revelations in private, or discuss them in small conventicles with those who are similarly enlightened.
It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.
The wisdom embodied in a Christian practice is not gnosis, available only to enlightened ones who decode hidden mysteries.
Perhaps your article will provoke more reminiscences from those who remember him still, and perhaps this will prompt an enlightened curator or two to try to do more for him.
Unfortunately, Bradford Council has shown an unenlightened attitude and needs to be persuaded otherwise.
The film's artistic power lies in its appeal for enlightened, loving and spiritually satisfying relationships between human beings.
Kamen designed the space not simply to be an enlightened employer but to lure his workforce there.
In 1737 the Medici were succeeded by the Lorraine-Habsburg dynasty of grand dukes, who were enlightened rulers who took their custodianship of the Florentine artistic patrimony very seriously.
There are more enlightened and democratic views and there are conservative views. Times, Sunday Times
These and other unenlightened phrases echoed around the world last week as protesters marched by the thousands in the name of world peace.
Surely, one might say, this is proof that magic was beginning to be regarded merely as the activity of unenlightened, superstitious peasants.
An enlightened government should permit the free expression of political opinion.
The key word is "prattle", whereas your contributions of course are the sparkling, enlightened conversation worthy of Henry Adams I.F. Stone, and Oscar Wilde. TPM Track Composite: Presidential Race Could Be Tightening
One voice is a "we" located in the Orthodox community who begins each chapter with highfaluting rumination on some Jewish topic, and goes on to narrate events from the perspectives of Dovid, the cousin, who is afflicted with colorful (literally) migraines, and Esti, the former lover, who appears to be autistic but turns out to be (I think) enlightened. Archive 2007-03-01
The socialists in the European Parliament refuse to acknowledge this fact and have consistently refused to anathemize Communism in the same terms as Nazism, making it clear that those victims do not matter to the enlightened establishment. They'll never agree
He is not just another man in the long line of religious teachers, he is just another spiritual master enlightened by knowledge, or another prophet in the long line of prophets.
But we pledge, we pledge that human sympathy -- what our neighbors to the South call an attitude of "simpatico" -- no less than enlightened self'-interest will be our guide. Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination
Even the most puritanical, old-style theorist, or the most modishly self-conscious, context-seeking musicologist will be hugely entertained, as well as enlightened, by this book.
It is important for parents to cultivate an enlightened and tender congeniality about such matters, otherwise they risk transferring unhealthy attitudes to their children.
From exile during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period nobles and clergy who had defended their privileges against enlightened despotism before 1789 now saw things in a different light.
Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence.
M. Andral, the "eminent and very enlightened allopathist" of the Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
I was adopting a position of enlightened intellectual who was going to teach my Midwestern students about the realities and inequalities of their nation.
An alternative view, however, suggests that enlightened self-interest is more likely than regulatory compulsion to bring about truly sustainable activities.
This tradition continues unbroken to the present day, and the teachings of enlightened Kagyu masters are considered among the most precious jewels of spiritual insight and practical guidance in the world.
Sumerian civilization rises to new heights under enlightened rulers of Lagash.
Of course, the young puppy is not yet wholly enlightened. Times, Sunday Times
When they look at him, they see the Enlightenment and it appalls them in the same way that creationists appall the enlightened. Terry Curtis Fox: Paladino, Rabbis and a New Religious Taxonomy
The old Sunday-school hymn — "Jesus loves me, yes I know/for the Bible tells me so" — is reassuring as far as it goes, but a lot of believers are more perplexed than enlightened the more they heed Saint Paul's injunction to "think on these things. More a Matter of Mystery than Magic
It's also a matter of enlightened self-interest. Positive Parent Power
The role of priest and artist is often interchangeable, as the netherworld they inhabit, between spirit and material, is enlightened by dream and imagination.
It's not just a matter of solidarity with those who have less than we have but also a matter of enlightened self-interest.
When Mike Griffin was first appointed to be the NASA administrator, I had great hopes for him, as I perceived him to be an enlightened, tough-minded, and thoughtful "scientist-administrator," rather than a business-oriented accountant. Vote To Keep Mike - NASA Watch
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas. Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism
an enlightened electorate
It makes me feel uncomfy but I don't know why and I worry slightly that it might become ‘hip’ to go off and be ‘spiritually enlightened’.
I was shocked by the mean-spiritedness of his article, especially given the fact that it was written for a presumably educated and enlightened audience.
I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me. Great Expectations
Academic scholars have a great need to feel superior to the mass of unenlightened and uncredentialed readers -- I will foreswear the temptation to speculate on why this is the case -- and increasingly academic literary scholars found it necessary to consider themselves superior even to the writers and the literary texts they ostensibly study. Literary Study
Handy does not predict, as people did in the 1970s, an enlightened age of leisure.
An enlightened government should permit the free expression of political opinion.
Enlightened Jewish physicians wanted to cooperate with the government and override rabbinic authority but were unable to change this long-standing Jewish custom.
This was also the aim of enlightened despots such as Maria Theresa. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
The Jesuits may even have been enlightened enough to make available newly invented optical instruments, on sale in Paris as early as 1609, to Descartes and his schoolfellows.
Some enlightened companies already do all this to their immense credit and to the longer term health of their employees. BMA Family Doctor Guide - Heart Disease
Naturally, the mother concludes the report unenlightened, and afraid of the consequences both of the vaccine, and of measles.
To end this cycle of tension, it will take at least a gnereation, I think, where more enlightened parents and teachers can teach a new generation of the fundamental honorableness of each and every human being. The Politics of Fifth Grade: For Their Own Good
They think that they are the elites and the enlightened ones that require servitude from the peasant-looking Hoosiers. ‘Baron’ is merely your *name*, Rep. Hill (D, IN-09). - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
The Two Brewers pub is indeed an enlightened establishment, encouraging such a highclass canine clientele.
But, the passion to become engaged in advancing the cause of mankind is not only the province of enlightened collegians. Dan Silverstein: Celebrate Learning: It's the Only Thing that Keeps Us From Being Dumber Than Coal Buckets
Two months' extra interest is the norm, but a few enlightened lenders don't charge any early settlement penalty.
IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
'Empowerment' is the new buzz-word in enlightened management circles.
I mentioned earlier their hopes of influencing enlightened despots. The Times Literary Supplement
But no less dreadful is the sense that for many years, the state of Israel has been squandering not only the lives of its children but also the miracle it experienced — the great and rare opportunity bestowed upon it by history, the opportunity to create an enlightened, decent, democratic state that would conduct itself according to Jewish and universal values. Unforgiven
Some believed enlightened leaders could simply educate the working class to understand the need for socialism.
Yet the teacherly streak in Orwell - his calling to educate the unenlightened bourgeoisie - drove him further to investigate Britain's under-class.
I understand that 1940s attitudes toward these "Mongoloid" children were far less enlightened and humane than they are now. In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson by Sue Erikson Bloland
The survivors were then, with some assists from the Marshall Plan and enlightened US trade and monetary policies, able to all get jobs rebuilding the continent. Matthew Yglesias » A Stimulus Plan in Case We Ever Get Really Desperate and Insane
This was also the aim of enlightened despots such as Maria Theresa. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
Australian media organizations do not seem to have been characterized by enlightened personnel practices.
It is a decidedly loving look that Taylor takes, which may not assuage the sensibilities of a supposedly more enlightened age.
Such an enlightened approach would work. Times, Sunday Times
A lively and enlightened faith, a solid and fervent piety, and a superior mind, convinced him that since the time of the abasement of the Son of God, humiliation is honorable, and adds to the splendor of the highest dignities; a truth which is not understood by persons of little faith, by the proud, the indevout, and those of little mind. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
From the perspective of later developments, the Enlightened Despotism of the eighteenth century seems like a last-ditch attempt to match the personal rule of hereditary princes to the needs of the modern state.
Jefferson is usually identified with the enlightened secularists who sought to protect a secular vision of life from the tyranny of the churches.
Learning], reads: "The ancients who wished to illuminate their enlightened virtue in the subcelestial realm first governed well their states. Empresses and Consorts
A year ago, he was pretty unenlightened about the whole issue - much like the rest of us.
But when you get to its final page you will find that you have not merely been entertained but enlightened, too. Times, Sunday Times
The notions of transaction and reciprocity-I do for you what you do for me-are also implicit in moral concepts like the golden rule, the social contract, and enlightened selfinterest.
Call me unenlightened, but I'm glad it's over, and that I can now get back to the real work of making this world a smarter, better place.
He would govern in the interests of the people as an enlightened but absolute ruler.
It was, Smith argued, an enlightened plan: sensible, efficient, conceived in harmony.
The more enlightened males of the time were equally pleased. Times, Sunday Times
Without being free of thought, without the thinking having dissolved, vanished, disappeared, there is no way to be liberated or enlightened.
We will lose them to countries that take a more enlightened attitude to globalisation and its challenges. Times, Sunday Times

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