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Enlightenment Thinkers and the Wednesday Society
TLDR Enlightenment thinkers in the Wednesday Society challenged traditional religious ceremonies like marriage, sparking debate with religious figures. Emmanuel Kant defined enlightenment as the emergence from self-imposed immaturity, emphasizing the importance of thinking for oneself to achieve true freedom.
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Revolutionary thinkers in the Enlightenment era formed the Wednesday Society to support and discuss the cultural movement towards secular institutions and away from the church.
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Marriage was historically a religious ceremony, but Enlightenment thinkers questioned why it couldn't be a civil procedure overseen by the state, sparking debate and resistance from religious figures like Reverend Johann Zollner.
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Enlightenment thinkers questioned the concept of Enlightenment itself, leading to a famous response by Emmanuel Kant.
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Kant defines enlightenment as man's emergence from self-imposed immaturity, emphasizing that his contemporaries were on the path to enlightenment but had not yet fully achieved it.
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Kant compares the development of human thought to a person's life, emphasizing the limited experiences and resources available in childhood.
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Kant argues that many adults continue to outsource their thinking and decision-making to others, perpetuating a cycle of immaturity and dependence throughout their lives.
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Outsourcing our thinking to others perpetuates a self-imposed cage of immaturity, but Kant argues that the key to freedom from this cage is within everyone's reach.
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Kant emphasizes the importance of daring to be wise and thinking for oneself to overcome the fear of failure and negative judgment that may hold us back.
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