EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 70: Sapere Aude, Deliberative Democracy, The Motto
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Sapere aude = dare to know = dare to make use of your own powers of. Recall descartes and the emphasis on the ability of reason to provide a firm foundation. Only accept a premise if your own reason tells you it could be correct. Not so much a matter of knowledge as of courage and resolve. Because people who are of age and should have a voice of their own, don"t. Fear of the unknown that comes from challenging authority. The guardians feed off that fear, laziness, and cowardice and. = auto + nomos = self + law. To be autonomous is to be capable of imposing the law upon oneself . Recall his ethics from the 2nd critique: do what"s right because it"s right. Hence, to be autonomous is not to be outside of or beyond the law. This will lead to an interesting paradox that we will deal with at the end.
