5/22/2023 0 Comments Kant enlightenmentThis famous essay is a foundational document of German liberalism, in that it argues for intellectual freedom and freedom of expression as the means by which human beings attain moral and citizenly self-determination. He exerted a profound influence on German cultural-intellectual life, most notably by arguing that knowledge and the world are constructed by the autonomous workings of human reason and moral imagination (here he opposed the Lockean tradition, which tended to assign the human mind the more passive function of reflecting the rationality of the perceived world). In the 1770s, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) emerged as a philosopher of major European stature. Immanuel Kant, "What is Enlightenment?'" (1784)
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