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I read a few aphorism collections by Nietzsche as a teenager or twenty something. They’re great because each paragraph stands on its own and is controversial, weird, and it made me think – I mean I sometimes hated what Nietzsche was saying but having these mental arguments with a dead author, I loved that. And I loved his old school German.
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“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another.”
– Kant, What is Enlightenment
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Well, here I was downloading Menschliches, Allzumenschliches Teil I by Nietzsche and then following some links and now I’m reading the first chapter of „Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?“ by Kant. His definition of the enlightenment is easy to read, his observation still true.
I guess tonight is one of those nights.
English: http://braungardt.trialectics.com/philosophy/early-modern-philosophy-16th-18th-century-europe/kant/enlightenment/
German: https://www.textlog.de/2335.html
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