What are the potential dangers of an uncritical pursuit of what is perceived as "enlightenment"?

As a meditation on themes of world history, progress and enlightenment the essay picks up themes that Kant developed elsewhere but in a bold and programmatic ... In many ways it functions as a good summary of the period's attitudes towards knowledge, the divine, authority, tradition, the individual, education, and the ... Dec 16, 2009 ... ... Enlightenment's major advances. Did you know? In his essay 'What Is Enlightenment?' (1784), the German philosopher Immanuel Kant summed up ... Jan 4, 2023 ... When I finished, I felt like Immanuel Kant after reading David Hume: awoken from a “dogmatic slumber. ... brief summary relies heavily on the ... Jan 19, 2016 ... ... enlightenment than the pre-modern idealists ever had. Preliminary Articles of a Perpetual Peace. Kant lays out six articles of perpetual ... Sep 20, 2023 ... ... Kant's Critique of Pure Reason” (Königsberg 1784), setting forth both briefly and accurately a summary of Kant's book. Things began to turn ... Jan 1, 1984 ... ... brief article and the three Critiques. Kant in fact describes Enlightenment as the moment when humanity is going to put its own reason to ... ... Kant thought of Mendelssohn's essay, nor — aside from a brief unpublished note5 — do we know much about Mendelssohn's response to Kant's answer. Subsequent ... Quotations, historical facts and a number of topics such as the treatment of Spinoza's philosophy have been largely omitted. This summary is intended, first, to ... the European Enlightenment. He was the ... Peace, the earlier essay provides the keystone to Kant's political philosophy and makes plain Kant's.