Immanuel Kant Public And Private Reason

This essay will evaluate Immanuel Kant distinction between public and private reason of An Answer To The Question: What Is Enlightenment? In doing so Kant allows readers to comprehend exactly how to world exists based on his point of view. The thesis will regard the comparison between Kant point of view of the world and how the world is currently functioning right now. This essay will address three topics about this subject which includes the public and private reasons of the politics, religion and the Copernican revolution. Firstly, Kant’s definition of enlightenment consists of a ‘man’s’ emerges from his self imposed immaturity. This describes the intellectual immaturity of children that explains why they should seek to their parents’ behaviours as guidance to shape their own. Speaking of enlightenment, the public reason involves justifying a position by way of reasons that people …show more content…
For example, when he demonstrates that people should pay their taxes because the law requires it. That shows that the government must create the rules based on how the world is being intervene. Also, another thing that can be interpreted in the Copernican revolution that was mentioned in the second paragraph is religion. In Kant’s standpoint he describes that the religion was defined in many different convictions but in the Copernican revolution Galileo insists that the Copernican universe must replace he Ptolemaic point of view of there beliefs. His bold statements made the Catholic Church regret that they can be not real conflict with science and faith. When with Kant’s the conflict between the faith and reason of the three beliefs, there was a bold agreement that they all have to respect each religion even if the beliefs weren’t the same. This shws that in life even if you can come with a lot of evidence between faith and reason about any religion is based on the person to make his own decision on what religion he or she