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en-wikipedia-org-5344		Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment? - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2733	353	63	"Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?) is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Kant's opening paragraph of the essay is a much-cited definition of a lack of enlightenment as people's inability to think for themselves due not to their lack of intellect, but lack of courage. Kant answers the question in the first sentence of the essay: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity (Unmündigkeit)." He argues that the immaturity is self-inflicted not from a lack of understanding, but from the lack of courage to use one's reason, intellect, and wisdom without the guidance of another. In this essay Kant argues that the role of the state and church must be such that it allows the individual to practice their public reason.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5344.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5344.txt