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Philosophize This!
The title was cited as a clear illustration of Kant's argument that enlightenment requires shedding self‑imposed tutelage and embracing reason, which the hosts linked to broader calls for liberty, equality and solidarity. Stephen West highlighted the essay in relation to Bookchin's ideas, and the episode summaries reiterated Kant's "dare to know" motif as a challenge to religious dogma.
Episode: Episode #193 ...The chief export of the western wo...
The book was mentioned as a demonstration of how Enlightenment ideas align with Bookchin's view on the human tendency toward greater liberty, equality and solidarity, referencing Kant's call for removing oneself from self-imposed tutelage and using reason to structure society.
You know when Immanuel Kant writes his famous essay in 1784 called What is Enlightenment and he says that to be enlightened We got to remove ourselves of our self-imposed tutelage of the past to him meaning the needless authority of religious thought and then when he says that moving forward we should be using reason as a more reliable guide for structuring the systems in our world When Kant writes that that is him and many others existing in a society where they look around them and obviously feel like something's very wrong about the way things are and it's them Standing up to the authority of religious claims to truth and demanding greater levels of Liberty equality and solidarity for people in the process.
Episode: Episode #134 ... Consequences of Reason
It was written by Immanuel Kant and describes enlightenment as "man's removal of his self-incurred tutelage." Kant refers to the tutelage of thousands of years of religious dogma and challenges thinkers to "dare to know" or "dare to think for yourselves."
man's removal of his self-incurred tutelage.
Episode: Episode #134 ... Consequences of Reason
This essay is about man's removal of self-incurred tutelage (i.e. religious dogma) and that man needs another way than religious faith to be able to arrive at the truth about things, because faith has caused a lot of problems historically.
man's removal of his self-incurred tutelage.
dare to know or dare to think for yourselves for once.