IT 1751 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Carlo Goldoni, Immanuel Kant, Montesquieu

• School: York University
• Department: Italian
• Course: IT 1751
• Professor: John Picchione

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Immaturity is the inability to use one"s own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. Motto of enlightenment: have courage to use your own understanding! Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large proportion of men, even when nature has long liberated them from alien guidance, nevertheless glady remain immature for life. Dogmas and formulas, those mechanical instruments for rational use (or rather misuse) of his natural endowments, are the ball and chain of his permanent immaturity. Provides the western world with the basis of modernity. Progress and emancipation (to make ourselves better) Was a french enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of christianity, especially the roman catholic church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state.