LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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Question
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“Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, ‘no, ’ but we do live in an age of enlightenment.”
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Immanuel Kant
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John Locke
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David Hume
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Denis Diderot
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Kant argued that society was still in the Age of Enlightenment because both the individual and the public are still under tutelage that was self-imposed. Tutelage is a com-plex process and has methods of sustaining and advancing itself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kant defines enlightenment as “man’s release from his self-imposed tutelage”. ¹ He elucidates the meaning of tutelage as “man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another”.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many historians now date the end of the Enlightenment as the start of the 19th century, with the latest proposed year being the death of Immanuel Kant in 1804.
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