The Wisdom of the Enlightenment Arthur Dobrin Students experience the program through

Students experience the program through a series of video segments in which fifteen residents of Sevilla - of varying ages and sociocultural backgrounds - define the same ten concepts: amigos (friends)familia (family)trabajo (work)pais (country)libertad (freedom)exito (success)orgullo (pride)individualismo (individualism)ambicion (ambition)felicidad (happiness) While these words are easily translatable into any language

self-doubt

will delight in the insight

he considers three technologies now converging that will shape the future: biotechnology

Along the way she provides brief biographies of three of the most influential figures in the city's history: urban designer Pierre Charles L'Enfant

The Wisdom of the Enlightenment Arthur Dobrin Students experience the program throughEnlightenment Aufklarung in German, Lumieres in French is more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the authoritarianism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In The Wisdom of the Enlightenment, author Michael K. Kellogg points to 1637, the year