Answer the Question: What is Enlightenment?

By Kant, Immanuel, Dr.

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Reproduction Date: 8/23/2013

Title:	Answer the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Author:	Kant, Immanuel, Dr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Philosophy, Enlightenment, Ethics, German Philosophy
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Historic Publication Date:	2013
Publisher:	Verlag Daniel Fidel Ferrer

Member Page:	Daniel Fidel Ferrer
Citation APA MLA Chicago Dr, I. K. (2013). Answer the Question: What is Enlightenment?. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Essay translated from German to English by Daniel Fidel Ferrer in August 2013. Original publication of Immanuel Kant's essay in German: By Immanuel Kant. "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklarung?" in Berlinische Monatsschrift Book. 4, 12. December, 1784), pages 481-494.

Summary
What is Enlightenment? Kant answered in 1784 with this short essay.

Excerpt
Kant wrote in 1784 in the first part of his essay: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one understanding without guidance from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but rather of resolve and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere Aude! [Latin translated: Dare to know, from Horace]. Have courage to use your own mind! Thus is the motto of Enlightenment."

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Immanuel Kant’s Text translated into English (pages 2 to 10). Notes, Bibliography, Related Links, Etc., Appendix A (pages 12 to 25). Word Index (pages 26 to 45).