Enlightenment

Coffee has been consumed for at least 1,500 years and some say its impact is so great that it helped fuel the Enlightenment, which gave rise to some of the big ideas that underpin the world as we know it.

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One academic - Jurgen Habermas – even says without coffee we might not have had the Enlightenment.

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This so-called Age of Enlightenment radically changed the world as we knew it.

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them I'm just asking for a historian no no no I mean I think that if you think about the many of the Great figures in the history of of let's say European philosophy uh I think of David Hume I mean David hum was an historian he wrote a five volume history of England as well as being one of the great uh philosophers of the Enlightenment I think and in a way something happened to all the disciplines in the later 19th century they

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this reason, any individual person would have to live an inordinately long period of time in order to learn how to make full use of all of his natural predispositions, or if nature has limited the span of his life, as has in fact happened, it requires a perhaps incalculable number of generations, of which each passes its enlightenment on to the next, in order to eventually bring the seeds in our

Immanuel Kant 1784 - Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective

their fellows whom they can neither endure nor do without. Here the first true steps are taken from brutishness to culture, which consists actually in the social worth of human beings, and here all of the talents are gradually developed, taste is formed, and even through continual enlightenment the beginning of a foundation is laid for a manner of thinking which is able over time to transform

Immanuel Kant 1784 - Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective

diminishes the powers of the whole for this reason limitations on personal activities are increasingly lifted and the general freedom of religion extended in this way although folly and capris will appear occasionally enlightenment arises as a great good one which the human race must rest even from the self-aggrandizement of its masters as long as they understand their own interests but

Immanuel Kant 1784 - Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective

We turn now from the early enlightenment and its concern with naturalism and the laws of history and the laws of human nature to the late enlightenment or what I would call the high enlightenment, that moment of the enlightenment which is most famous for its aspirations, its optimism, and its cult of human perfectibility and progress, and I want to examine that cult of progress.

Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History

I will do this by examining one essay written in 1784 by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest thinkers of the enlightenment who was in many ways a transitional figure between that high enlightenment and the ensuing age of romanticism. But first, I want to begin by talking a bit about the high enlightenment's conception of history. The enlightenment is characterized by an incredibly optimistic belief in the growth of human reason and the growth of human rationality.

Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History

Kant wrote not long after the American Revolution, which was an event that further emboldened the mind of the high enlightenment to believe that the age of despotism, of monarchy, of inequality, and of fundamental irrationality was coming to a close and that a greater expansion of human freedom and human potentialities had begun and would continue. In fact, they believed the only hindrances to such development and such growth were superstition or ignorance.

Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History

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You used to be protected by your pre-enlightenment mythology, but now you're going to need a stronger friend named Latex. Are you having the sex talk with me? Well, someone has to. Oh, dear Lord. No, don't look to him.

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With the Enlightenment era, the game moved from royal courts to coffeehouses.

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He is trying to construct a coherent explanation or account of the external world of nature, the internal world of consciousness and experience, and the process by which consciousness develops in historical time. So, what he does is take the idealist tradition that comes from Greece into the Enlightenment and historicizes it, trying to construct a system around that historical development of the human mind or the human psyche, or as he would put it, the Geist. Now, before I go any further, it's worth noting that Hegel's original training and education was in theology.

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How did such a revolt even happen? What were the causes? The real cause was the Enlightenment, I would say, and the French Revolution. All these aristocrats, all these officers were well-educated in the spirit of the Enlightenment, and furthermore, just imagine, they were all in the war in France; they saw a totally different life there.

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And what he's gesturing at here is the whole tendency of thought since the Enlightenment, which tends to move away from theological or, more precisely, metaphysical structures towards an emphasis on the empirical external world. Perhaps this is a homage to the rise of modern natural science, but Husserl says that the rise of modern natural science has misled us, has caused us to misunderstand the world around us, and has put philosophy on the wrong footing. The result of this has been an impoverishment of our culture.

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Immanuel Kant is arguably the most important figure in the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and as Professor Stalloff just showed you, his treatment of epistemological and ontological problems is profound and synthesizes many trends that have been present in the history of continental rationalism and also in British empiricism. The remainder of his philosophy, the moral philosophy and the political philosophy, also deals with themes that had been developed in the previous history of moral thought.

Kant's Moral Philosophy

It's an idea derived from Rousseau. Freedom is not the arbitrary liberties of the savage in the state of nature; for Kant, freedom is regulated freedom under law. Freedom is the activity of making a moral law that you yourself obey. This is what enlightenment is: coming to our maturity, taking responsibility for our actions, realizing that there is one universal moral law which commands us to become free, rational, good, virtuous moral agents.

Kant's Moral Philosophy

Kant has a political philosophy; it's sort of an addendum to it, but it also is one of the high points of the political theory of the Enlightenment. And it corresponds in some respects to the differences between the Kantian and Humean system. Hume is essentially an empiricist and rather a conservative with regard to political philosophy. He likes things more or less as they are, and you can see how that would appeal to an empiricist. Empiricists, being rational risk minimizers, know what's happened in the past.

Kant's Moral Philosophy