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Answering The Question: What Is Enlightenment? (2000)

by Immanuel Kant(Favorite Author)

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review 1: 4.5 / 5 Le texte en lui-même vaut 5 / 5: il est court et plutôt intéressant. De plus, le texte reste assez compréhensible et abordable pour du Kant.Le dossier, la majeure partie du livre, vaut 4 / 5. En effet, bien qu'il explique plutôt bien le livre, je trouve qu'il va trop loin et j'ai été un peu perdue par moments en le lisant. En somme, c'est un livre de philosophie très court et assez complet. Il vaut bien le détour! je recommande !
review 2: I read Kant in college and for some reason he never clicked for me, everyone assumed I would like him but every time I tried to read him something seemed off. This essay is a perfect illustration of that overriding feeling. I was immediately drawn in as Kant described enlightenment as emergence from self-imp... moreosed nonage (the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance). Sounds great, right up my alley, yes we can free our minds and think for ourselves, you go Kant, go. Yet then somehow he concludes the essay with "Argue as much as you like, and about what you like, but obey!" Wait what you ask? How did he get there? As I can understand, he is essentially saying that you have the freedom to think and criticize whatever you want if you are being scholarly about it, or when you are not being paid to do it, or have no obligations to it, but if you are doing one of those latter things including expressing doubt about your religion as a pastor or thinking about refusing to pay taxes as a citizen, well then you need to stop at this instant and obey. Hard not to conclude that Kant was really high on himself as a scholar, and have a feeling I would not want to party with him at all. less

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