Aufklärung

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2022

It goes beyond the Aufklärung in emphasizing the living, moving, developing nature of reality; for it, life and consciousness constitute the essence of things, and universal life reveals itself in a progressive history of mankind.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

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)

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

Between his own transplanted artistic interests on the one hand and his association with the great throng of artists that the Aufklärung had doubtless brought and held, he should do well enough.

From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake