{"id":9009,"date":"2005-08-09T22:24:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T03:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/08\/09\/enlightenment\/"},"modified":"2005-08-09T22:24:27","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T03:24:27","slug":"enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/enlightenment\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things have been busy, but at some point I hope to stop just linking and start actually writing something. In the meantime, why not link to something profound?<\/p>\n

Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if its cause is not lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one’s intelligence without being guided by another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own intelligence!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac” Immanuel Kant, in “What Is Enlightenment?”, 1784<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is it too cynical to think that the anti-science attitude on the part of our government is part of a bigger picture, a roll-back of rationality itself? Shakespeare’s Sister<\/a> examines the evidence, and concludes that it’s not too cynical at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things have been busy, but at some point I hope to stop just linking and start actually writing something. In the meantime, why not link to something profound? Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-science-and-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}