Enlightenment Immanuel Kant Analysis

Through the text, “What is Enlightenment?” the author Immanuel Kant demonstrates what it means for an individual to be enlightened. To be enlightened, allows individuals to realize certain situations and by encountering with the darkness, will then guide them to fully understand and realize that there is nothing to fear within life. Thus, Kant studies the theories behind enlightenment and its importance. Through the text, Kant argues that the concept of enlightenment is based on an individual’s release from immaturity. He argues the notion of intellectual autonomy, in relation to the concept of immaturity, in which demonstrates the failure to think and make decisions on your own without the guidance of another. As a result, Kant argues the

For example, they are under the impression that books serve to their own understandings or that physicians are capable of determining their own diet. Hence, through these examples, Kant exemplifies how their laziness can be much influenced by their cowardice aby demonstrating that they are afraid to experience a few falls in the process of learning. This then resulted in men to demonstrate immaturity by wishing that there was someone out there that they can pay to do the thinking for them. Through the concept of blind obedience, in order to escape from this, Kant believes in freedom in which will allow the public to be enlightened. Kant explains that this notion is a slow process in which can be difficult for a man to reach maturity on their own. Through freedom, it allows individuals to express their own thoughts and opinions and by working together will allow individuals to reach maturity. Enlightened leaders within a public sector are what Kant believes is necessary in order for society to experience enlightenment. The reason behind this is because he states that free thinking can be considered as a form of