Contents 1 Spirituality and religion 2 History 3 Computing 4 Film and television 5 Education 6 Literature 7 Music 8 Philosophy and politics 9 See also

Enlightenment may refer to:

Spirituality and religion

• Gnosis in Judeo-Christianity and Hellenic Philosophy
• Moksha and Jnana in Hinduism
• Moksa in Jainism
• Nirvana, Bodhi and Four stages of enlightenment in Buddhism
  • Satori and Kensho in Zen Buddhism
  • Dzogchen in Tibetan Buddhism

History

• Age of Enlightenment, a period in Western history and its corresponding movement
  • Diafotismos, the Greek enlightenment
  • Haskalah, the European Jewish community
  • Scottish Enlightenment, Scotland
  • American Enlightenment, America
  • Enlightenment in Poland, Poland
  • Catholic Enlightenment, Catholicism
  • Russian Enlightenment, Russia
  • Enlightenment Spain, Spain
• Counter-Enlightenment

Computing

• Enlightenment (window manager), an X Window System window manager
  • Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
  • Enlightened Sound Daemon

Film and television

• Enlightenment (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who serial
• Enlightenment Guaranteed, 2002 German film

Education

• Enlighten Harm Reduction
• Project Enlightenment, an educational program

Literature

• Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1944 book by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Gnosis (from one of the Greek words for Knowledge, γνώσις is the spiritual knowledge of a Saint or mystically enlightened human being In Indian religions, Moksha ( Sanskrit: sa मोक्ष mokṣa) or Mukti ( Sanskrit: sa मुक्ति literally "release" Jñāna (also spelled Gñāna; Devanagari ज्ञान is the Sanskrit term for Knowledge or Philosophy. Mokṣa ( Sanskrit: मोक्ष liberation or Mokkha ( Prakrit: मोक्ख) means liberation salvation or emancipation of soul In sramanic philosophy Nirvana (निर्वाण| Nirvāṇa; निब्बान Nibbāna; Prakrit: णिव्वाण Bodhi (बोधि is both the Pāli and Sanskrit word traditionally translated into English as "enlightenment The four stages of Enlightenment in Buddhism are the four degrees of approach to full enlightenment as an Arahant which a person can attain in this life Satori ( 悟 Korean oh; Japanese satori (from the verb Satoru) Chinese: wù Kenshō (見性 (C Wu) is a Japanese term for enlightenment experiences—most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism. According to some schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bön, Dzogchen is the natural primordial state or natural condition of every sentient Being The Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment is a term used to describe a phase in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century Diafotismos ( Greek: Διαφωτισμός "enlightenment" "illumination" from fos " Light " The Modern Greek Haskalah ( Hebrew: השכלה "enlightenment" "education" from sekhel " Intellect " "mind") the Jewish Enlightenment The Scottish Enlightenment was the period in 18th century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments The American Enlightenment is a term sometimes employed to describe the intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States (as they became The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland were developed later than in the Western Europe, as Polish Bourgeoisie was weaker and Szlachta The term Catholic Enlightenment refers to a heterogeneous phenomenon in Ancien Régime Europe and Latin America The Russian Age of Enlightenment was a period in the eighteenth century in which the government began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences The Age of Enlightenment (in Spanish Ilustración) came to Spain in the eighteenth century with the French Bourbon dynasty, after the decay "Counter-Enlightenment" is a term used to refer to a movement that arose in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in opposition to the eighteenth century Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a Free software / Open source Window manager for the X Window System which can be used alone The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, or EFL is a set of Open source graphical software libraries that grew out of the Enlightenment window manager project and In Computing, the Enlightened Sound Daemon ( ESD or EsounD) is the Sound server for Enlightenment and GNOME. Enlightenment is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in Erleuchtung garantiert ( Enlightenment Guaranteed) is a 2002 German film directed by Doris Dörrie about two brothers Uwe ( Uwe Ochsenknecht Enlighten Harm Reduction is an organisation based in Melbourne Victoria dedicated to informing drug users of what different chemicals are in their drugs by using various tests Project Enlightenment is an educational program provided by the Wake County Public School System to provide early childhood education and intervention services Dialectic of Enlightenment (German Dialektik der Aufklärung) is the core text of Critical Theory explaining the socio-psychological status Adorno
• What is Enlightenment?, 1784 essay by Immanuel Kant
• The Path of Enlightenment, 1977 work by Julius Evola

Music

• Enlightenment (album), 1990 album by Van Morrison
• Enlightened Rogues, 1979 album by The Allman Brothers Band
• enLighten, XM Satellite Radio Christian music channel
• Enlighten Me, 2002 album by Masterplan

Philosophy and politics

• Enlightened absolutism, also known as benevolent despotism
• Enlightened Moderation
• Enlightened self-interest

See also

• Illumination (disambiguation)

For the contemporary spiritual magazine see What Is Enlightenment?. La Via della Realizzazione di si secondo i Misteri di Mithra, a work by Italian Esoteric writer Julius Evola Enlightenment is an Album by Northern Irish Singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music) Enlightened Rogues is a studio album by The Allman Brothers Band released in 1979 on the Polydor and Capricorn labels enLighten is a Christian music channel on XM Satellite Radio channel 34 and is available on DirectTV channel 828. " Enlighten Me " is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released in October 1990 Enlightened moderation is "The quality or state of becoming rational or having reasoning power” or “Being able to think clearly and make decisions based on the reason rather than Enlightened self-interest is a philosophy in Ethics which states that persons who act to further the interests of others (or the interests of the group or groups to

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