Website review: Imanual Kant: What is Enlightenment...
Nujolneeding discovered this in Ethics
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ethics, philosophy, enlightenment
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Nujolneeding discovered 16 months ago- For the good of all
- b-bear rated 6 months ago
- Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. 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! [dare to know] "Have courage to use your own understanding!"--that is the motto of enlightenment. Dear Websites Like This One, If you don't want us to remain unenlightened, immature, dependant, or children, then please would you provide notes to complex non-English texts like this one from Kant? In the current format, it is easy to consider this essay from the Professor from Köningsberg as simple. In fact, such a format can give the wrong impression completely when for instance the word "Unmündigkeit" is translated as "immaturity", without the resonance of the German word (dependance, non-age, but also non-speech, or an inability to speak). Oh, actually, I'm meant to do this hard labour of interpretation for myself, aren't I? Yours in Daring to Know, and in Pedantry, B-bear Translating the opening passage of Kant's Was is Aufklärung?: Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit. Unmündigkeit is das Unvermögen, sich seines Verstandes ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen. Selbstverschuldet ist diese Unmündigkeit, wenn die Ursache derselben nicht am Mangel des Verstandes, sondern der Entschließung and des Muthes liegt, sich seiner ohne Leitung eines andern zu bedienen. Sapere aude! Habe Muth dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen! is also der Wahlspruch der Aufklärung. * unmündig: This German term covers two conditions that in English and American law are distinguished as "non compos mentis" (a Latin term applied to adults who cannot manage their own affairs, because they "don't have mastery of their minds") and "minority" in the sense of "not being of age." It comes from the word Mund ("mouth"), and thus literally means "not being able to speak for oneself. Correspondingly, the term for "legal guardian" is Vormünder -- "one who speaks for another." (Lyman A. Baker)
- RecoveryX rated 12 months ago
- Simplistic if you ask me.
- blackbot rated 14 months ago
- Good question
- HeKata rated 15 months ago
- Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. 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! [dare to know] "Have courage to use your own understanding!"--that is the motto of enlightenment.
- beatlebuddha rated 15 months ago
- Sapere Aude! dare to know
- JerrodL rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "One age cannot bind itself, and thus conspire, to place a succeeding one in a condition whereby it would be impossible for the later age to expand its knowledge (particularly where it is so very important), to rid itself of errors, and generally to increase its enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, whose essential destiny lies precisely in such progress; subsequent generations are thus completely justified in dismissing such agreements as unauthorized and criminal." This is the reason for racism in the nation with the greatest degree of freedom in the history of the world. People--all people--continue to use words like "black" and "white" and "yellow" and "brown" to describe people who would be just as well described as "two legged" or "one headed". For the amount of melanin in our skin is as trivial as the the fact that we have one head. Previous generations have subscribed to the idea that we are different in such a way that requires, in our individual description, a description of the amount of melanin in our skin. I will not subscribe to this philosophy and I would ask all of you do disregard it as well. The differences between us only serve to enlighten us about our similarities which are far greater in number and have far greater potential to lead us to an enlightened state.
- jbet777 rated 15 months ago
- Title: Imanual Kant: What is Enlightenment (1784) Website: IDÉHISTORIA A, mom 2 From the page: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. 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 under- standing, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] "Have courage to use your own under- standing!"â€"that is the motto of enlightenment." Thanks to surlyotter for the link.
- radapowda rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me. The guardians who have so benevolently taken over the supervision of men have carefully seen to it that the far greatest part of them (including the entire fair sex) regard taking the step to maturity as very dangerous, not to mention difficult. "
- haushofer rated 16 months ago
- Hard times, when this text reappears.
