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Argumentative Essay On Are You Enlightened

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The question for debate is “Are you enlightened”? The lecture defines “enlightenment” as the movement towards critical reason and away from blind acceptance of traditional institutions, ideas, and morals. Another way to define enlightenment would be the idea of light bulb turning on when you come to understand something. On one side of the debate, a person would say that people are enlightened because they have a general understanding of the way the world works as compared to an infant who would not be enlightened. However, on the other end of the spectrum, when Kant describes enlightenment, he talks about the idea of immaturity. In this sense immaturity means being complacent or having a mob mentality; therefore, in the eyes of Kant, people
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