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An Answer To The Question: What Is Enlightenment? (Great Ideas) (1901)

by Immanuel Kant(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0141043881 (ISBN13: 9780141043883)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

review 1: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another." And to Kant, anyone who seeks to take away man's freedom to exercise his reason is wrong(there are of course certain times when man must obey. Kant cites the example of a military officer who must obey orders, but notes that the same officer is obliged to think on the orders.)
review 2: I read this text for a Coursera course, "The Modern and the Postmodern". A review is quite unnecessary as the author sums up his text in the first few lines:"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immat... moreurity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another." less

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