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Such calls would have been out of step with the budding American Enlightenment liberal tradition.

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The Enlightenment notion of promoting “the common good” predates even the United States itself.

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It allows people to say they're censoring to protect the liberal values of the Enlightenment.

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The magnitude of this transformation is akin to that from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the medieval mind to the modern mind.

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But for the upcoming novel, she cites the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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