Aufklärung

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2022

It had been so with German Aufklärung, when Ben-David, Itzig, Friedländer, and Jacobson, laid the corner-stone of the intellectual rebirth of their people.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

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

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

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