HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, Haskalah
20 Dec 2019
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Immanuel kant (1724- 1804): key thinker of the enlightenment, central to the enlightenment, wrote three critiques, critique of pure reason (1781/87, critique of practical reason (1788, critique of judgement (1790, not jewish. Two type of thinkers: empiricism, where all knowledge comes from experience, all ideas come from sensations and come from those sensations, rationalism, don"t need to appeal to experience. 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. Have courage to use your own understanding!" that is the motto of enlightenment. : we have reason and can think for ourselves, we don"t need to believe what we don"t want to, agnostic - doesn"t know whether god exists.
