HIST108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Immanuel Kant, Intellectual Freedom, Toleration
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Enlightenment is man"s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man"s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. "- that is the motto of enlightenment. (immanuel kant, Kant"s main focus: the relationship between enlightenment and the christian religion. An intellectual movement which attempted to secularise" the european world. But enlightenment europe neither gave up christianity nor became non-religious. The church no longer monopolised the authority to regulate the people"s life and beliefs. The europeans did not give up the christian faith but rather the church no longer monopolised peoples way of life. However, the influence of the church did diminish. Not the philosophers who thought in arm chairs but were "public intellectuals" did not confine themselves to the "ivory tower". Free the european society from ignorance and superstitious errors.
