Monday, February 6, 2012

Kant: What is Enlightenment?

This article was a pretty tough read but I found that it was much easier if I kind broke it down by paragraph and then by sentence. Because that kind of took a really long time, I probably didn't spend as much time on this as I should have. But what I got from this reading is that there is no real freedom. Kant believes that there is always someone telling you what to do. Which may kind of be a good thing.. But I don't know. Kant tries to encourage people to think for themselves and to not just blindly follow what people tell to you to believe. He wants people to free themselves from tutelage, which is doing something because you have the help of someone else. He wants people to be more independent.

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