Universal Enlightenment

The aim of intellectuals was to cosmopolitanize their work and make inquiry an international activity which would shed light on the universal collective condition of man. The American and French Revolutions were given their intellectual basis by the common struggle for secular humanistic ideals which, in spite of their differences of opinion, united intellectuals across the Western world. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant was in no doubt about this ...

It is time to cast off man's immaturity through the action of the inquiring mind, even if the limits (?f possible knowledf?e are revealed in the process.

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