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For example, Enlightenment ideas were seen in Latin American countries, where people were inspired by both the words and deeds of the Enlightenment to embark in their own fights for individual rights and political independence (i.e., the political reforms and revolutions promoted by Simón Bolívar
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enlightenment, it may force the guardians themselves to remain under the yoke--so pernicious is it to instill prejudices, for they finally take revenge upon their originators, or on their descendants. Thus a public can only attain enlightenment slowly. Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing
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of the latter who are incapable of enlightenment, it may subsequently compel the guardians themselves to remain under the yoke. For it is very harmful to propagate prejudices, because they finally avenge themselves on the very people who first encouraged them (or whose predecessors did so). Thus a public can only achieve enlightenment slowly.
alone can bring about enlightenment among men. The private use of reason, on the other hand, may often be very narrowly restricted without particularly hindering the progress of enlightenment. By the public use of one's reason I understand the use which a person makes of it as a scholar before the reading public. Private use I call
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The Enlightenment By Amy Elizabeth Robinson The Enlightenment was a period in history named not for its battles, but for . its ideas. Still, the intellectual and cultural changes it introduced certainly . contributed to many political revolutions around the world. 970L
Enlightenment is mankind’s exitfrom its self-incurred immaturity.^ Immaturity is the j inability to make use of one’s own understanding without the guidance of another.
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One specific development in the history of philosophy will exemplify the self-destructive tendency of Reason. The eighteenth century in France has been called the era of Enlightenment. The school of thought to which this REASON AGAINST ITSELF 361 term refers includes some of the greatest names of human history. The
