An answer to the question: What is enlightenment? (1784)
2012; Cambridge University Press; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/cbo9780511813306.005
Autores ResumoSince the eighteenth century was the "Age of Enlightenment," it was appropriate to ask "What is Enlightenment?" Kant's answer to the question appeared in the December 1784 issue of the Berlinische Monatsschrift. As his concluding note indicates, the September issue, which Kant had not yet received, contained an essay on the same topic by Moses Mendelssohn. The occasion for both replies to the question could have been an essay in the December 1783 issue, "Is It Advisable to Sanction Marriage through Religion?" by Johann Friedrich Zöllner, which contained the passage "What is Enlightenment? The question, which is almost as important as the question What is truth?, should be answered before one begins to enlighten others. And yet I have never found it answered anywhere."
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