El sentido de la “ilustración” para Kant

Abstract

Our actual purpose is to show how a concrete philosophical thought, Kant’s, faces the roblematic of a historical epoch also concrete, the Illustration, from a specific point of view: the science, and how Kant pretends with it, to enable the awareness by the society to which it belongs with respect to its value and to the political limitations of his epoch. In other words we try to recover the Kantian reflection with respect to the function that a specific society fulfils with respect to the human freedom. Our work will take as a basis a small article written by Kant entitled

Answer to the question what is the Illustration Sapere aude! Have the courage to serve your own understanding. Here is the symbol of the Illustration.” written by the author in 1784, in which he consigns in this way his conception of it: “