Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to:

Age of Enlightenment

Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was a Europe, European Intellect, intellectual and Philosophy, philosophical movement active from the late 17th to early 19th century. Chiefly valuing knowledge gained th ...

, period in Western intellectual history from the late 17th to late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing (alphabetically by country or culture): ** Arab Enlightenment or

Nahda The Nahda (, meaning 'the Awakening'), also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Arab Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arabs, Arab-populated regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia, ...

, late 19th to early 20th century ** England:

Midlands Enlightenment The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment or the Birmingham Enlightenment, was a scientific, economic, political, cultural and legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wid ...

, period in 18th-century England ** Greece:

Modern Greek Enlightenment The Modern Greek Enlightenment (also known as the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment; , ''Diafotismós'' / , ''Neoellinikós Diafotismós'') was the Greek expression of the Age of Enlightenment, characterized by an intellectual and philosophical movemen ...

, an 18th-century national revival and educational movement in Greece ** Italy:

Italian Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment in Italy (Italian: ''Illuminismo italiano)'' was a cultural and philosophical movement that began in the second half of the eighteenth century, characterized by the discussion of the Epistemology, epistemolo ...

, period in 18th-century Italy ** Jewish:

Haskalah The ''Haskalah'' (; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), often termed the Jewish Enlightenment, was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, with a certain influence on those in Wester ...

, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century ** Poland:

Enlightenment in Poland The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland were developed later than in Western Europe, as the Polish bourgeoisie was weaker, and szlachta (nobility) culture ( Sarmatism) together with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth political system (Go ...

, ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland ** Russia:

Russian Enlightenment The Russian Age of Enlightenment was a period in the 18th century in which the government began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences, which had a profound impact on Russian culture. During this time, the first Russian unive ...

, 18th-century period of active government encouragement of proliferation of arts and sciences in Russia ** Scotland:

Scottish Enlightenment The Scottish Enlightenment (, ) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century, Scotland had a network of parish schools in the Sco ...

, period in 18th-century Scotland ** Spain:

Enlightenment in Spain The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment () came to History of Spain, Spain in the 18th century with the Spanish royal family, new Bourbon dynasty, following the death of the last House of Habsburg#Spanish Habsburgs: Kings of Spain, Kings of Portugal ...

, came to Spain with a new dynasty, the Bourbons, subsequent reform and 'enlightened despotism' ** United States:

American Enlightenment The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical fervor in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th to 19th century, which led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. The American Enlightenme ...

, intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States

Religion

Enlightenment in Buddhism The English term ''enlightenment'' is the Western translation of various Buddhist terms, most notably ''bodhi'' and ''vimutti''. The abstract noun ''bodhi'' (; Sanskrit: बोधि; Pali: ''bodhi'') means the knowledge or wisdom, or awakene ...

, translation of the term ''bodhi'' ("awakening"} *

Moksha ''Moksha'' (; , '), also called ''vimoksha'', ''vimukti'', and ''mukti'', is a term in Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, '' nirvana'', or release. In its soteriological and eschatologic ...

Moksha (Jainism) Sanskrit ' or Prakrit ''mokkha'' refers to the liberation or salvation of a soul from ''Saṃsāra (Jainism), saṃsāra'', the cycle of birth and death. It is a blissful state of existence of a soul, attained after the destruction of all Kar ...

* Kevala jnana, awakened knowledge in Jainism *

Divine illumination According to divine illumination, the process of human thought needs to be aided by divine grace. It is the oldest and most influential alternative to naturalism in the theory of mind and epistemology.. It was an important feature of ancient ...

Computing

Enlightenment (window manager) Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. Since version 0.20, Enlightenment also supports Wayland. It is shipped with some Linux distributions such as Bodhi Linux and Pentoo. Enlightenme ...

, an X Window System window manager *

Enlighten (radiosity engine) Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to: Age of Enlightenment * Age of Enlightenment, period in Western intellectual history from the late 17th to late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing (alphabetically by country or culture): ...

, code to do real-time calculation of indirect lighting ("radiosity") in video *

Enlightenment Foundation Libraries The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are a set of graphics libraries that grew out of the development of Enlightenment, a window manager and Wayland compositor. The project's focus is to make the EFL a flexible yet powerful and easy t ...

, a set of graphics libraries

Events

Enlighten Canberra Enlighten Canberra is an outdoor annual art and cultural festival held in Canberra, Australia featuring illuminating light installations and projections, performances from local and interstate musicians, a short film festival and the Canberra ...

, an annual arts and cultural festival in Canberra, Australia * "Enlightenment", the main artistic performance in the

2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony The 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony was held on 29 August 2012, starting at 20:30 BST and marking the official opening of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, England. The show – named ''Enlightenment'' – had Jenny Sealey and B ...

Film and television

* ''Enlightenment'' (Doctor Who), a 1983 ''Doctor Who'' serial

Music

* ''Enlightenment'' (Van Morrison album), 1990 * ''Enlightenment'' (McCoy Tyner album), 1973 * "Enlightenment" (Van Morrison song), 1990 * ''Enlightenment'' (soundtrack album), the soundtrack of the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

Other uses

Ionian Enlightenment The Ionian school of pre-Socratic philosophy refers to Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, philosophers, or a school of thought, in Ionia in the 6th century B.C, the first in the Western tradition. The Ionian school included ...

, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science *

Dark Enlightenment The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and reactionary philosophical and political movement. A reaction against Enlightenment values, it favors a retur ...

, an anti-democratic and reactionary movement that broadly rejects egalitarianism and Whig historiography *

Enlightenment Intensive An Enlightenment Intensive is a group retreat designed to enable an enlightenment experience or an experience of nondualism within a relatively short time. Devised by Americans Charles Berner and his wife, Ava Berner, the format combines the self ...

, a group retreat designed to enable a spiritual enlightenment *

Enlightenment Movement (Afghanistan) The Enlightenment Movement or Junbesh-e Roshnayi () is a grassroots civil disobedience movement of Hazaras created in 2016 in Afghanistan in response to the Afghan government's change in routing plans for proposed international electricity netw ...

, a Hazara grassroots civil disobedience group created in Afghanistan in 2016 *

Project Enlightenment Project Enlightenment is a historical interpretation society affiliated with McLean High School. The project was begun in 1992 by Physics teacher Dean Howarth, who estimated in 2008 that 400-500 members had passed through the group in 16 years, alt ...

, an educational program