HUMAN 1AS Lecture 9: Hum Core- What is Enlightenment- mandatory seminar
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Two reasons why we"ll be talking about kant today: If we can understand his work he"ll show us something essential as to what the enlightenment is. Will put us in a good position to understand rousseau"s position on the enlightenment since he resists a lot of the arguments that kant puts forward. Understand the logical and other connections between them that gives you systematic understanding. Kant: i learned to honor mankind form reading rousseau . Both take the analysis of human nature to be fundamental for practical considerations: ethics, politics, the proper role of government, etc. We have to understand what the essence of human nature is. Both take freedom and not happiness to be the central ordering concept. The fundamental social unit are human individuals, not the society or the community itself. Both criticise one"s self conception and behaviors on others. Rousseau holds that reason is a derivative capacity necessitated by society, and he criticizes reason, society, and progress.
