Enlightenment

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Enlightenment may refer to:

[edit] Culture

• Age of Enlightenment, period in Western history and its corresponding movement
• Enlightenment (spiritual), a final blessed state free from ignorance, desire and suffering
• Enlightenment in Western secular tradition
• Enlightenment in Buddhism
• Moksha, the concept of enlightenment in Indian religions
• Ionian Enlightenment, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science
• Scottish Enlightenment, period in 18th century Scotland
• American Enlightenment, intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States
• Enlightenment in Poland, ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland
• Catholic Enlightenment, movement within Catholicism to find answers to the secularism of the Enlightenment
• Russian Enlightenment, a period in the eighteenth century in which the government in Russia began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences
• Enlightenment Spain, Bourbon period of reform and 'enlightened despotism'
• Diafotismos, an 18th century national revival and educational movement in Greece
• Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century

[edit] Computing

• Enlightenment (window manager), an X Window System window manager
• Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, software libraries that grew out of the Enlightenment window manager project
• Enlightened Sound Daemon, the sound server for the Enlightenment window manager

[edit] Film and television

• Enlightenment (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who serial

[edit] Other

• Project Enlightenment, an educational program

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