Enlightened public debate must be a dispute about policies contained by a community of values.

The proposal deals with informed consensus building about how human and natural resource poverty affects human and land vulnerability.

But what really matters is legitimacy and informed public opinion.

This kind of enlightened stimulus runs into strong prejudices.

An enlightened autocrat can be just as protective of minority rights as a solidly democratic government.

This is a time of union of everybody who believes in the regeneration of the social body, having the Spirit of the Human Being as its principle.

The gains of enlightened discourse are too precious to be turned into negotiable values.

At the same time, he sidelined moderate, mainstream political leaders while claiming that he stood for enlightened moderation.

In the interest of enlightened discourse, the limits of free speech should be drawn as widely as possible.

This is the context in which we may see the invasion of Islamic taboos into the enlightened, mostly non Islamic world.

The regime s true ambition is to invent an alternative to Western democracy an enlightened despotism under the tutelage of a meritocratic Communist Party.

Russia, after a brief attempt at democracy under Boris Yeltsin, has reverted to a form of unenlightened despotism under Vladimir Putin.

Toleration and respect for people who have their own beliefs are right and perhaps necessary to preserve an enlightened world. But there is the other side to consider.

The communist Knight, the new caballero de la triste figura, a kind of enlightened idiot, blinded by his loyalty to the unreal and by his harsh political correctness, considers Lenin a new Moses.

Global income redistribution by the rich countries should be viewed as a matter not of charity, but of enlightened self interest.

One sometimes wonders whether we are experiencing not so much the end of history as the end of enlightened history, perhaps of the enlightenment itself.

Since the 1960 s, such proscriptions have weakened until, in the end, explicit sexuality, violence, blasphemy while upsetting to some people were tolerated as a part of the enlightened world.

Yet real action in the US is starting, thanks to leadership in other parts of the world, and thanks to the enlightened understanding of some major American businesses.

An enlightened corporate state, where unions fully support growth and competitiveness objectives, can deliver the economic goods as well as more de centralized systems.

I would also like to mention in this context the strategy of Enlightened Moderation proposed by President Musharraf of Pakistan to deal with issues such as extremism and terrorism through a broad range of measures at different levels.

(c) To continue to intensify United Nations interaction with the public, principally non governmental organizations and research institutes, to help further an informed debate on topical issues of arms limitation, disarmament and security

The philosophers who were the intellectual fathers of the 1789 revolution longed not for democracy, but for enlightened despotism, which is what many French still look for when they elect a president.

Respondents provided suggestions on the precise timing, format and means of distribution, which have helped to inform a more comprehensive survey to be undertaken this year, the results of which will feed directly into the Department's programme planning.

It requires a sense of the medium term and a commitment to rational debate of issues, for one tradition that can be revived that of enlightened thinking is the most important of all.

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