Enlightenment Guaranteed (2002) is a film directed by Doris Dörrie about two brothers, Uwe (Uwe Ochsenknecht) and Gustav (Gustav-Peter Wohler), who travel to Japan to sort out the mess of their lives. Their plan is to visit the Sojiji Monastery in Monzen, near Tokyo. On their way there, in a rather literal Buddhist moment, they lose all of their belongings. When they at last make it to the monastery, they find that even there, enlightenment can be elusive.
This film could almost be a sequel to Men..., Dorrie's landmark '80s film with the same starring actors (albeit as different characters) and a similar existential storyline, and was sometimes billed as such.
The goal of the Enlightenment's proponents was to apply the methods learned from the scientific revolution to the problems of society.
Enlightenment writers, such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, influenced ordinary readers, politicians, and even heads of state all over the Western world.
Enlightenment writers praised the legal and constitutional guarantees established by the English and the Americans, but they wanted to see them applied everywhere.
Carter, J.J., J.H. Pittock, and University of Aberdeen., Aberdeen and the Enlightenment : proceedings of a conference held at the University of Aberdeen.
Originary enlightenment : Tendai Hongaku doctrine and Japanese Buddhism.
Enlightenment : enlightenment from the Aramaic : selected passages form the Khabouris manuscript, an ancient text of the Syriac New Testament.
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