Even the literary works of David Bagrationi were inspired by the ideas of French
enlighteners.
Among his topics are anti-Enlightenment trends in the early 19th century, the Slavophiles and other versions of anti-Westernism, Nikolai Chernyshevsky and the "
enlighteners" of the 1860s, Vladimir Soloviev and metaphysical idealism, and the crisis of Marxism and the intellectual genesis of the religious-philosophical renaissance.
Fully aware of these limitations, the melody is sung in the holy words of the great
enlighteners of truth, Guru Nanak, Guru Arjan and Guru Gobind Singh.
Although Naoot deleted that post from Facebook due to the controversy it raised, she maintained that her arguments were not an insult to Islam, and considered her trial the "heavy bill paid by
enlighteners".
"The small mountainous country is the home of Alexander the Great,
enlighteners Cyril and Methodius and almost 1,000 years later, Mother Teresa.
The intention of many social museums is to illustrate the environment of a community as well as a culture: as true
enlighteners of the "spirit of a place" as regards what characterizes it and gives it a fundamental originality, they provide a picture revealing a region and its landscape, a community and its ways of life.
His groundbreaking first steps toward the full emancipation of Jews, his toleration of other faiths, and the relative freedom of the press that he allowed, made him a hero for many
Enlighteners. For Pope Pius VI, however, Joseph II's policy of religious toleration and his plans for church reform, which included placing the Church under state control and suppressing the contemplative orders due to their "uselessness" for the common good, were a serious threat.
All the Vekhovtsy believed in the intelligentsia's mission as
enlighteners of the people, in the notion that "Russia's fate is in the intelligentsia's hands." For Tolstoy, this was just the old arrogance of power in new guise.
In a letter to his daughter Daniela Thode, dated October 8th, 1886, the pianist and conductor Hans von Bulow (Richard Wagner's presumably most influential pupil) wrote: "Famose Kerle doch die Franzosen, auch im Antisemitismus unsre Vorganger, eclaireurs!" ("Terrific guys these French, real
enlighteners and our predecessors in behalf of antisemitism as well!") This statement, as remarkable as it is cynical, reveals the deeply ingrained antisemitic roots of German 19th-century intellectualism.
A certain interpretative grid of history imposed by the
enlighteners gave little credit to the period from antiquity to the dawn of the time they lived.
Traditionally, up to WWI, Estonian newspapers and their editors enjoyed high social prestige being considered leaders, teachers and
enlighteners of the society.
The latter, precisely because this freedom is allowed to them, are objectionable to the state, which always desires to rule alone; and they are decried, under the name of
enlighteners, as persons dangerous to the state, although their voice is not addressed confidentially to the people (as the people take scarcely any or no notice at all of it and of their writings) but is addressed respectfully to the state; and they implore the state to take to heart that need which is felt to be legitimate.
She also examines controversies about musical styles and notes that ambivalence about innovations drawn from secular music was present among the Orthodox and
Enlighteners as well as the Pietists.
