German Enlightenment By Immanuel Kant

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ENLIGHTENMENT FROM PAST TO PRESENT In this dark environment, where we are in our country, we are the days when we are most needed to become enlightened and conscious. One of the most important representatives of the German Enlightenment, Kant's article entitled "What is Enlightenment" can give us some ideas. The situation described in the problem of enlightenment emerged as follows. Previously, people perceived morality by their orders of divine power, not by themselves, but by a rule maker. Kant calls this stage a prey. The way to get rid of it is to mature. If many different people believe that many different religions are believed, we see that some moral values are different. Immanuel Kant defines it, immature is the time …show more content…

Therefore, the Enlightenment is evaluated in two ways, positive and negative. From a positive point of view it is possible that today's technology, its present scientific achievements, its cultural life, its return to the Enlightenment and its relation to it. But on the other hand, it is possible to link today's wars, crimes and destruction to Illumination. The mind foresaw to build the universe in an understandable way; but on the other hand, if we do the lawyer of the devil, we can rely on the destruction of wars and the keeping of all interests above all. The mind tells me not to move in the direction of my interest. Without my conscience, my beliefs, my mind can easily go to the service of egoman. But I do not think there is much role of mind or wisdom in the increase of evil. Yes, the mind may be at the disposal of emotions or egons, and as a result both individuals and humans can suffer from enormous problems. I think that in such a situation it is necessary to aim at the education of emotions, not to leave a sensible edge. No country can ever build upon the education system to produce information, not to use it wisely, or to give less information to the student. To identify the enlightenment with wisdom, to connect the evils of the present day to the Enlightenment, to seek a scapegoat, to be in a sense of guilt. Unless we can find the truths correctly and find rational solutions, we can easily navigate the emotional reactions to the obsessions, leaving the realities on the edge. Briefly and roughly, if it were not for the Age of Enlightenment, we would still be in the witch hunt and continue to burn each

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