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‘What is Enlightenment?’ is concerned with every citizen’s public right to use their reason: everyone in a civilised society, Kant argues, should have the freedom to question the status quo and take part in a debate about how society should be governed and maintained.
enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind. And what a people may not decree for itself can even less be decreed for them by a monarch, for his lawgiving authority rests on his uniting the general public will in his own. If he only sees to it that all true or alleged
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"Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?), often referred to simply as "What Is Enlightenment?", is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
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1. Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.[2] . Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude![3] “
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Aug 20, 2010 · Immanuel Kant defines “enlightenment” in his famous contribution to debate on the question in an essay entitled “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (1784), as humankind’s release from its self-incurred immaturity; “immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another.”
The philosopher Immanuel Kant published “What Is Enlightenment?” (full title, “An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?”) in 1784. This guide uses the translation by Ted Humphrey from the volume Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, published by Hackett in 1983.
An answer to the question: What is enlightenment? (1784) Immanuel Kant; Edited by Mary J. Gregor; Introduction by Allen W. Wood, Stanford University, California; Book: Practical Philosophy; Online publication: 05 June 2012; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511813306.005
