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Dare to be Wise
With pleasure today I unearthed an essay Kant wrote in answer to the question: “What is Enlightenment?” Kant’s response: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.” This simple...
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Coffee as Sedative
Coffee is my wake-up beverage, always black, served an hour after my first mug of tea in the morning, and then as a single espresso to get me through the post-lunch energy slump. It’s the C_8 H_10 O_2...
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The Problem of Motivational Force
The mistake of most moralists has always been to consider man as an essentially reasonable being. Man is a sensitive being, who consults solely his passions in order to act, and for whom reason serves...
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Enlightenment and Thinking (Kant)
This morning I reread Kant’s well-known What is Enlightenment? [PDF], an essay that I’ve reflected on many times over the years. Much more interesting (a recent reading, thanks to a friend’s deeper...
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Nothing Compared to the Stars
Text below from a letter, which I think very beautiful, written by German-British astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750-1848). She refers to Aganice (Aglaonice) of Thessaly, considered the first...
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