How can we foster a global culture of critical thinking and intellectual autonomy in the 21st century?

May 26, 2021 ... Kant's rhetoric about “maturity” is one way of articulating an Enlightenment vision for citizenship. Another path lies in the epitaph Thomas ... Aug 21, 2018 ... Kant wasn't advocating defying God, necessarily, but he was empowering human reason. The Muslim world at large has not had its own Enlightenment ... Dec 15, 2020 ... Kant represents the zenith of Enlightenment optimism in reason, individual liberty, and human rights. Kant, unlike liberals such as Thomas ... Kant's "What is Enlightenment" was one of his popular essays, written when he was sixty, and it comes at the end of the eighteenth century. This article explores the history of discussions of “enlightenment” and “the Enlightenment,” paying particular attention to the uncertainties the 18th century ... Sep 20, 2023 ... Kant addressed himself to philosophical debates that had evolved through decades of the Enlightenment—the nature of knowledge, the possibility ... Apr 19, 2024 ... The German philosopher virtually never left his home city of Königsberg, yet his writings changed the way people think all over the world. He is ... Schmidt, James. "What Enlightenment Was: How Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant. Answered the Berlinische Monatsschrift." Journal of the History of ... Aug 20, 2010 ... His attitude of inquiry resembles both that of Descartes' meditator and that of the person undergoing enlightenment as Kant defines it, the ... Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.