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What Is Enlightenment?

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About “What Is Enlightenment?”

"Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" is a 1784 essay by Immanuel Kant, published in the Berlinische Monatsschrift, replying to a question posed a year earlier by Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner. Kant's opening paragraph is a much-cited definition of a lack of enlightenment as people's inability to think for themselves due not to lack of intellect, but lack of courage. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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1784
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1784 · ISBN 9780141043883
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9780141043883

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What Is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant has 144 pages.

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