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Counter-Enlightenments

Counter-Enlightenments is the plural of Counter-Enlightenment.

Meaning of Counter-Enlightenment

Noun

Counter-Enlightenment (plural Counter-Enlightenments)

  1. Any of various strains of thought in opposition to the Enlightenment or its ideals.
    • Indeed, a common criticism of the Enlightenment project—that it is a Western invention, unsuited to the world in all its diversity—is doubly wrongheaded. For one thing, all ideas have to come from somewhere, and their birthplace has no bearing on their merit. Though many Enlightenment ideas were...2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 3: Counter-Enlightenments”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Penguin, →ISBN

Questions about Counter-Enlightenments

What is Counter-Enlightenments the plural of?
Counter-Enlightenments is the plural of Counter-Enlightenment.

Words near Counter-Enlightenments in the dictionary

  1. counter-economics
  2. counter-electrophoresis
  3. counter-embattled
  4. counter-embowed
  5. Counter-Enlightenment
  6. Counter-Enlightenments
  7. counter-entropic
  8. counter-ermine
  9. counter-espionage
  10. counter-evidence
  11. counter-evidences

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