enlightenment

Converse of object

• attain: You can't suddenly attain enlightenment by going on a weekend meditation retreat.
• seek: It can even be questioned whether monastic life is the best setting in which to seek enlightenment.
• achieve: A message stating " You have achieved enlightenment " will appear.
• bring: Emmanuel Kant brought the Enlightenment to its head by insisting on the moral autonomy of man.
• reach: Go on to tell the story of how the Buddha reached enlightenment.
• gain: How many say " I joined because I wanted to gain self enlightenment " ?

Adjective modifier

• spiritual: We wanted to know more about the church where devotees pay rather than pray their way to spiritual enlightenment.
• Scottish: Also local histories, of which Arthur Herman's The Scottish Enlightenment is a gem.
• supreme: The Buddha and the disciples who had attained supreme perfect enlightenment felt no grief about anything, whatever happened to them.
• French: The first problem is the almost exclusive attention given to the French Enlightenment.
• European: Such " modernism " was an aspect or fruit of what historians call the European Enlightenment.
• 18th: From the 18th century enlightenment to Marxist historical materialism, strong claims have been made in response to these questions.

Modifies a noun

• rationalism: The answer seemed to be that it was the logic of Enlightenment rationalism itself that gave rise to such barbarism.
• thinker: A friend from his University days, Adam Ferguson, was the son of the great Enlightenment thinker Professor Adam Ferguson.
• philosopher: Certainly, they had their debts to the Enlightenment philosophers.
• philosophy: The radical detachment of the Enlightenment philosophy from its roots becomes, in the last analysis, contempt for man.
• thinking: So what is enlightenment thinking and what are its rules?
• ideal: It's a national trait, as their faith in the enlightenment ideal of progress and growth is hard-wired into their culture.

Noun used with modifier

• eighteenth-century: Wishing to erase and repudiate obscurity ( and hence implicitly admitting its efficacy ) points out a sublime contradiction of the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
• century: From the 18th century enlightenment to Marxist historical materialism, strong claims have been made in response to these questions.