IImmanuel Kant → What is Enlightenment? Flashcards
What is Enlightenment?
“Is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity”
“Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another”
Motto of Enlightenment
have courage to use it (your pov) without guidance from another
what we think it’s logical because we grew up this way
other people are wrong because they don’t think the same way I do (grew up in different ways).
The idea that religion will continue to be the educator.
Equality between men and women had to do with two things:
- Modernity
- Cultural background
Private use of reason
freedom to make public use of one’s reason in all matters.
The private use of reason may quite often be very narrowly restricted, however, without undue hindrance to the progress of enlightenment. But by the public use of one’s own reason I mean that use which anyone may make of it as a man of learning addressing the entire reading public.
What I term the private use of reason is that which a person may make of it in a particular civil post or office with which he is entrusted.
public use of reason
The public use of man’s reason must always be free, and it alone can bring about enlightenment among men
What I term the private use of reason is that which a person may make of it in a particular civil post or office with which he is entrusted.
According to Kant, those who are not immature, should be able to use the following to research and discuss freely without any repercussions
Immaturity
the inability to use one’s understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity 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.
Laziness and cowardness
Are the reasons why such a large proportion of men, even when nature has long emancipated them from alien guidance, nevertheless gladly remain immature for life.
