"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

22 April 2024

Happy Birthday, Kant

von Stägemann, Immanuel Kant, 1790


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. Sapere aude!  Have courage to use your own reason! -- that is the motto of enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant, born on this day in 1724

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