Western Civilization II / Unit 6 WC2 0501 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Kant's Question: What Is Enlightenment?
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The idea
In seventeen eighty-four Kant answered his own question: enlightenment is release from self-incurred tutelage, the courage to use one's own understanding without direction from another. Historians keep his name for the movement while rejecting the idea that it was one self-conscious campaign.
In practice
Sapere aude, dare to know: the motto, in Kant's essay.
Where people slip
Video 0530 reads the essay.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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