MINJI KIM
IMMANUEL KANT-What Is Enlightenment?
According to the article, he argues about Enlightenment. He says humans need to have courage to use their own knowledge so as to struggle with a society and a hierarchical society and for enlightenment. And then he criticizes religion’s interference that many things like free are limited by religious matters.
I have a same idea with Kant for men need to have courage to use their own knowledge. You nowadays prefer staying safe than challenging to new things as you are used to stay safe by a society. Some parents and teachers at schools in some countries in the world even discourage their kids from trying to new things that have possibility to lead chaotic in the society. You are educated to make a better society. If you accept a given regulation and norm made by authorized organizations and states without your free will, then you do not need to have an education and you are just a stuffed pig because the stuffed pig has no ideas after being fed by its owner or its guardian and it just stays in one location until being fed by its owner or guardian again. In this point, if you just accept a given society made by authorized powers, then your power will be limited to complain something in a society to governments. However, if you attempt to change the given one to a new one, then you will have a power that is possible to change the society although there will be many trials and errors in a process. By many trials and errors, you can be a real human. A human is a thinking and practical animal, not the stuffed pig.