...treat to them than a tallow candle; but even when the intellects of these poor half-human children are a little clouded, they retain their good nature,...understanding, but of determination and courage to use it * It is impossible, without greater deviation from the original than I feel myself justified in making,...

...is Enlightenment?'1 Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage...

...Cambridge University Press, 1970), p. 54. Kant explains his statement by arguing that: " 'Immaturity' is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding!"...

...authority. As Kant put it, Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. . . . The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere audel [Dare to be wise!] Have courage to use...

..."Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity." Kant thinks of it as overcoming "the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another." Commentators generally avoid the clumsiness and qualifications ot these constructions by leaping directly...

...between emancipation and enlightenment when he defined enlightenment as the transcendence of immaturity ('the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another'), and argued that 'enlightenment of this kind' presupposes freedom (though he tried to make this claim...

...of the one he calls the "indeterminate other" in Kant's essay. If, as Kant had written, "immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another" this "other" is by definition the guardian, the Vormund who speaks for the immature. Hamann's suspicions...

...enlightenment in the form, in Kant's words, of man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage...

...PASSAGE, Kant wrote: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another." He added: "Have courage to use your own understanding!" (Kant 1784, p. 54). Though Kant himself was...

...significance. As Kant defined 'Enlightenment', it is 'man's emergence from self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage...