Definition of Obscurantism. Meaning of Obscurantism. Synonyms of Obscurantism

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Definition of Obscurantism

Obscurantism
Obscurantism Ob*scur"ant*ism, n. The system or the principles of the obscurants. --C. Kingsley.

Meaning of Obscurantism from wikipedia

- In philosophy, the terms obscurantism and obscurationism identify and describe the anti-intellectual practices of deliberately presenting information in...
- to sum up all the knowledge of his century and to fight ignorance and obscurantism. During that same century, Charles Perrault was a prolific writer of...
- of Bavaria. The society's stated goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power. "The...
- Nietzsche also distinguishes the obscurantism of the metaphysicians and theologians from the more subtle obscurantism of Kant's critical philosophy and...
- Hinduism, Christianity, Messianism, Judaism, Gnosticism, existentialism, obscurantism, and nihilism. The films' premise resembles Plato's Allegory of the cave...
- Joseph (1936). Против фашистского мракобесия и демагогии [Against Fascist Obscurantism and Demagoguery]. Directmedia (published 2013). p. 81. ISBN 9785446087181...
- turning universities, and other spaces of public life, into places of obscurantism, discrimination and oppression". Professor Noura Erakat, a human rights...
- He delivered "scathing criticism" of the Boxers' "anti-foreignism and obscurantism". Sun praised the Boxers for their "spirit of resistance" but called...
- "an engine of immense power, constantly applied for the furtherance of obscurantism, the repression of thought, the exclusion of foreign ideas and the obstruction...
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