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"ref": "1893, Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics",
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"ref": "2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, page 25",
"text": "Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.",
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"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge",
"word": "การรู้แจ้ง"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prosvítnyctvo",
"sense": "philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "просві́тництво"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "goleuedigaeth"
}
],
"word": "enlightenment"
}
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