Aufklärung

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Es braucht humanitäre Korridore, einen Waffenstillstand & vollständige Aufklärung der Kriegsverbrechen.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2022

Without the Counter-Reformation might not the Reformation, deprived of the support of pietism, have perished in the gross rationalism of the Aufklärung, of the age of Enlightenment?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

In 1784 Kant wrote a tractate entitled, Was ist Aufklärung?

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

They declare it to be a survival from the exploded metaphysics of the much-abused Aufklärung of last century.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

The period of the Aufklärung viewed art with scant favour, but with the rise of the New Humanism a change in favour of art took place.

From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by Jones, W. Tudor (William Tudor)