Aufklärung
Americannoun
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Es braucht humanitäre Korridore, einen Waffenstillstand & vollständige Aufklärung der Kriegsverbrechen.
From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2022
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
Without the Counter-Reformation might not the Reformation, deprived of the support of pietism, have perished in the gross rationalism of the Aufklärung, of the age of Enlightenment?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
The word Aufklärung, which the speech of the Fatherland furnished him, is a better word than ours.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell
L. Zscharnack: "Reformation und Humanismus im Urteil der deutschen Aufklärung," Protestantische Monatshefte, 1908, xii, 81 ff, 153 ff.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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