Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment?

              In Immanuel Kant's 'What is Enlightenment', he argues that enlightenment is being released from self indulged tutelage. When he says self indulged, he means that we are responsible for the tutelage-others thinking for us- that we are bonded in. Kant says that in order to be released from the bondage, we need to first realize that we are in bondage.
            'What is Enlightenment' can be connected to Paulo Freire's 'The Banking Concept of Education'. In this article Freire explains the Baking concept which is where the teacher tells the student what to know. He says that it is dehumanizing because the students do not think for themselves. Kant argues that this is exactly the cause of enlightenment, so that people can start to think for themselves, and be released from their self indulged tutelage.

Question: Why does some one else have to release us from bondage?




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