What is the self? Is it a unity or a chimera? Can there be said to be a ‘self’ at all? Of all Enlightenment philosophers, it is perhaps Immanuel Kant who gave, to these questions, the most startlingly original answers.
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Enlightenment: 'Humanising' the Arts
As the eighteenth-century rolled on, god’s divine light grew dimmer and the light of man’s reason, brighter. It was the beginning of a self-referential, human-derived and human-validated moral order. It was the beginning of the Enlightenment.
Age of Reason
By what means does knowledge enter our awareness? How can we be certain of the truth of the ideas we possess? It would be the task of the Enlightenment to address these queries; to dissect man’s inner spark, understand it, and give it its proper name: Reason.