“Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.” MenHas BeensChristianSexWomenEnlightenmentTraditionSlaveConvincedVarietyDevicesManipulative Author:Frederick Lenz
“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.” WorldReasonPoliticalPowerfulLeaderCenturyPeriodsEnlightenmentEuropeTraditionRootsEmployedBetter PlacePolitical Leaders Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
“This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.” InspirationalAgeEarthEnlightenmentTraditionPhilosophicalJewProphecyNew AgeDecemberMessiahConvergenceAquarius Author:Dan Brown
“The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.” PoliticalNationsMilitaryEnlightenmentTraditionHegemonyCommodification Author:Morris Berman
“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.” WorldReasonProblemAgePurposeGoalExistenceKnownAtheismEnlightenmentTraditionPursuitRationalErasMeritOur WorldDiscourseSubmissionDeitiesPremisesAge Of Reason Author:Jeffrey Tayler
“The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansLongAgeAmericaPastLostDarkModernHabitIntellectualEnlightenmentDiscoveryTraditionTriumphUnusualRomeDelicateThreadHobbiesRoyalFoundingModern WorldIntroductionInvasionDark AgesRenaissanceTriflesPrintingAntiquityBarbariansInterruptedDiscovery Of America Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.” FirstsChristianTermChurchCenturyEnlightenmentFirst TimeCapacityTraditionCatholicSplitsReformationProtestantsChristian FaithUnifiedChristian ChurchProtestant Reformation Author:John Shelby Spong
“There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If you read Benjamin Franklin, who was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in the United States and the most distinguished representative of the movement here, he actually advised that the newly founded republic should block Germans and Swedes because they were too "swarthy" - dark.” IfsShouldCountryStatesStrongDarkUnitedUnited StatesFiguresMovementProtectEnlightenmentTraditionBlockRepublicRepresentativesFoundingDistinguishedFranklin Author:Noam Chomsky
“One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly understand the American founding.” ShouldOrderStudyIntellectualEnlightenmentTraditionBritishLiberalismFoundingRepublicanismConstitutionalism Author:Daniel L Dreisbach
“Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.” MadeIdeasReligiousChristianityProductsEnlightenmentTraditionPhilosophicalHumanismGreekWho We AreOur SocietyJudaismGreat Religious Author:Jan Peter Balkenende
“The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.” WorldMayHas BeensUseSpiritualUsedPurposePathKeysDrugEnlightenmentYogaTraditionStonesUltimateIncludingAppropriatePsychedelicSpiritual PathStepping StonesPsychedelic Drugs Author:Georg Feuerstein