IMMANUEL KANT

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] "Have courage to use your own understanding!"—that is the motto of enlightenment.

IMMANUEL KANT IMMANUEL KANT An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (1784 ) Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] "Have courage to use your own understanding!"�that is the motto of enlightenment. Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature ha

IMMANUEL KANT

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