Kant publishes 'What is Enlightenment"

Category
Philosophy
Place
Europe
Date
1784
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"If Kant (1724–1804) found Christianity inadequate, he did not attack it but rather subsumed it in a more elevated moral scheme. When he defined enlightenment as using one’s ‘own understanding in religious matters, without outside guidance’, leading to ‘emergence from self-incurred immaturity’, he was not looking forward to a world without God. Those words come from his essay ‘What is Enlightenment?’, published in the Berlin Journal for Enlightenment in 1784." [Blanning: Pursuit of Glory, p. 500]

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