What is Enlightenment (Xiaoming,huang)

Every time I heard the word enlightenment I refer it to the mindset of inspiration or new ideas. It was the movement when people start to ask about the existed and question the reality. In “what is enlightenment “the author Kant views it as the freedom of making our own decision without any guidance from others, the bravery of acting under our own reasoning. It is very important to express ourselves as a unique individual and share our emotion to others. And it is absolutely true that are plenty of people who don’t use their full potential to logic everything they experience in this world,

However, there is a one thing I like to argue with the author is that not everyone can think or act like a scholar. The aspects of laziness and cowardice are the normal behaviors of a human being. It is too difficult to ask every person to reason everything for themselves, and there are a lot of challenges and obstacles a man can experiences in his life, feel the urge to ask someone else for a solution is not a horrible thing to do.  If a person is facing a lawsuit, ask a lawyer for a legal consultant is way better than solve the issue on his own, or a student has trouble understanding a math question, he should reach out to a mathematics professor to solve the problem. the help from others doesn’t necessary make us mindless but rather an easier way to learn. There are rules or laws under every country because those resections keep the society organizes and functional.

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