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On the Necessity of Enlightenment

On the Necessity of Enlightenment

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Daniel James Sharp
May 19, 2023
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In 1784, Immanuel Kant defined Enlightenment as “man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.” While there are many ways to look at the period we call the Enlightenment and many more ways in which it has been defined, Kant’s words have always struck me as a succinct description of what is at the very heart o…

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