• 1. Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.[2] Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
  • But that the public should enlighten itself is more possible; indeed, if only freedom is granted enlightenment is almost sure to follow.
  • If it is now asked whether we at present live in an enlightened age, the answer is: No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment.
  • IMMANUEL KANTAn Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?Konigsberg, Prussia, 30th September, 1784.
  • Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe...
  • What is more, the hindrances against general enlightenment or the emergence from self-imposed nonage are gradually diminishing.
  • In What is Enlightenment, Kant attempts to get at the weltanshauung of his age.
  • What is more, the hindrances against general enlightenment or the emergence from self-imposed nonage are gradually diminishing.
  • The first page of the 1799 edition. "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (. ‹See Tfd›German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung...
  • Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature...
  • Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature...
  • Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature...
  • Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment, and his work contributed to the spread of enlightened ideas across Europe.