Otis Chandler

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What is enlightenment? In a 1784 essay with that question as its title, Immanuel Kant answered that it consists of “humankind’s emergence from its self-incurred immaturity,” its “lazy and cowardly” submission to the “dogmas and formulas” of religious or political authority.
Otis Chandler
Isn’t it the age of science?
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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