What Is Enlightenment?
Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed intellectual immaturity
'Dare to know!' (Sapere aude); Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity; think for yourself
Kant's shortest and most accessible essay. Two pages that define modernity. The entire Enlightenment in a pamphlet.
Key themes: Intellectual courage, autonomy, reason, maturity, thinking for yourself