Analysis Of Kant's 'Wowufklarung?'

This article – Was ist Äufklarung? - was written by the philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1784. In this year the German newspaper Berlinische Monatschrift published the following question made by the priest Johann Friedrich Zöllner: What is enlightenment? One month later Kant wrote and published in the newspaper this article to answer the question.
Kant starts the article by answering clearly the question what is enlightenment. By enlightenment he understands that is the man´s release from his self-incurred tutelage. I am going to explain these key concepts for the better understanding of this textual commentary. By tutelage Kant means the inability of a person to make use of his own reason or understanding without the guidance from another. By self-incurred he means the tutelage which its motivation lies on lack of determination and courage. Therefore, Kant thinks that people lives under the tutelage, so we cannot think from ourselves; there is somebody else thinking for us. Also, we cannot think for ourselves not because of lack of reason but of …show more content…
The answer is: No, but we live in an age of enlightenment”. By sentence Kant means that, even we are in the way of enlightenment, a great deal is still lacking in order for men to trust themselves and religious issues without direction. While Kant was writing this article, he felt the men were walking in the right way to take the yoke off their shoulders. An individual who is enlightened, who is not afraid of darkness and have a well-disciplined and enlightened army to assure public can say “Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, only obey!”. This is the prince Kant was writing in the beginning of this article. A greater degree of civil freedom is advantageous to people´s spiritual freedom. In this way of enlightenment, people is able to open their minds and finally influences principles of the government that can treat people according their