consider the following questions. Feel free to incorporate any themes or materials that stand out from the course in your essay. Don’t feel limited to this course. Use any materials that you feel are necessary to work through these questions.

Prompt: In 1784 Kant wrote “An Answer To The Question: What is Enlightenment”.Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapre Aude! [Dare to know] Have courage to use your own understanding!Kant believes that an enlightened person would ‘Dare to be wise’ (Sapre aude) or would have the courage to think for themselves and use their own mind and its understanding as a guide.Directions: In a well-organized essay, consider the following questions. Feel free to incorporate any themes or materials that stand out from the course in your essay. Don’t feel limited to this course. Use any materials that you feel are necessary to work through these questions.• How does the ‘enlightened’ person differ from the ‘immature’ person?• Why is it difficult for a person or a group of persons to work their way out of being immature?• Do you see any relevance to our current age regarding immaturity and Sapere aude? Why or why not? Do you see any relevance to this class? Why or why not?• Do you have any examples that relate to the quote “thus it is difficult for each separate individual to work his way out of the immaturity which has become almost second nature to him”? Why is it easier for an immature person to simply continue on thinking as they do? What difficulties do you see for the person that has become ‘enlightened’?• Do you believe that our current age is an enlightened age? Why or why not? How might we go about moving into the type of world that Kant envisions?• Finally, do you feel that free thought has value? Can you envision a day where human beings have all adopted the motto of Sapre aude, or is this simply wishful thinking on the part of Kant? Would that type of future be a desirable one?