enlightenment
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- //ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt//
- //ənˈlaɪtənmənt//
- //-laɪtmənt//
An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
nom
- 1
An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
- 2
A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
But the man who has attained enlightenment sees that the apparent reality is mere illusion, or, as was said a couple of thousand years later, that there is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
Étymologie
Etymology tree English enlighten Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English enlightenment From enlighten + -ment.
Formes
- pluriel
- enlightenments
enlightenment · An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Enlightenment · A 17th- and 18th-century European intellectual and cultural…enlist · To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.enlisted · Belonging to the military, but not as a commissioned officer.