Sunday, February 5, 2012

DGP What Is Enlightenment?

I can honestly say that the reading was hard to understand because it was difficult to pin point what the author was talking about.  There are some concepts that I understood clearly though.  One being the idea of enlightenment.  Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage.  The definition of tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.  The author in my mind was looking ahead to our generation and seeing the lack of knowledge and free will of society.  There are tons of people in the world today who are incapable of not only thinking for themselves, but solving and figuring out problems by themselves.  Some people feel as if they need to be pointed the right direction in order to find out the truth about something.  Yet what people should do is find the answers by themselves because every person thinks differently.  Each answer and discovery is unique and should not be limited by a being dictating how you should think or answer. 

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