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Ask HN: How to Call the Opposite of Enlightenment?
How to call the opposite of enlightenment?
- adyashakti 4y agoIllusion, māyā: literally, ‘that which does not exist’. In spiritual culture, real existence has 3 main properties: sat (eternality, timelessness); chit (unconditioned consciousness, life); ānanda (bliss, causeless happiness). Enlightenment is personal realization of saccidānanda; the opposite is māyā.
- kite_and_code 4y agoThank you a lot for your reply. What sources do you recommend to read more?
- cc101 4y agonaïveté
- rurban 4y agoPostmodern times
- muzani 4y agoWorldly, Temporal. As in preoccupied with that directly in front of them and missihg the big picture.
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- nabla9 4y agoEnlightenment has multiple meanings. To get the right antonym you need to be more precise. The opposite of "the Enlightenment" is counter-enlightenment, encompassing romanticism, relativism, anti-rationalism, and vitalism. Also anti-enlightenment movement (associated with Friederich Nietzsche).
- kite_and_code 4y agoI intentionally did not disambiguate to see the resulting variance and you totally lived up to it with your options for "the Enlightenment". Thank you for that :)
- Temporarily21 4y agoDecadence
- h2odragon 4y agoWhat's the other side of a circle?
- kite_and_code 4y agoInside and outside, maybe? :) Or did you mean: where is the start/end of it? And if I don't get it: what do I miss? Which dimension am I ignorant of?
- leet_thow 4y agoDeclension
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- a_techwriter_00 4y agoIgnorance
- kite_and_code 4y agoThank you - that is most likely what I want to go with in most cases :)
- retrac 4y agoIf you just want an antonym for the word, I would suggest that "ignorance" is the closest equivalent, in nearly all of the senses of the word. If this is about enlightenment, as in the Buddhist concept, then "unawareness" or even "unconsciousness" might be a bit closer. To be enlightened (bodhi) in Sanskrit/Pali is to be awoken ("woke"? heh); it is related to the verb for "to wake up".
- kite_and_code 4y agoThank you, that helped me!