“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his
self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding
without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not
in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own
mind without another's guidance. Dare
to know! (Sapere aude.)
"Have the courage to use your own understanding," is, therefore, the
motto of the enlightenment.”
From the work "What is the Enlightenment?" E. Kant
- Find out the meaning of the
words you don’t understand
- Try to express in a sentence what the Enlightenment means for Enmanuel Kant
