%0 Journal Article
%T THE PUBLIC USE OF REASON IN KANT AND ITS NECESSITY FOR (THE) ENLIGHTENMENT
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%D 2018
%X How to use reason in the face of political and religious authority, and whether, or to what extent, it has freedom have been the subject matter of many philosophical discussions. Kant¡¯s contribution to these discussions is his distinction between the public and private use of reason. The public use of reason (der £¿ffentliche Gebrauch), he claims, is what enables (the) enlightenment to blossom out and provides the learned with the freedom they need in their publications, which serve the function of enlightening the people. Kant does not claim that the authorities ¨C political or religious ¨C are to be abolished; but, stresses that they need to be controlled by constant questioning. For this role, he singles out philosophy, and emphasizes that without it no authority could achieve what it strives for. In light of these issues, in this paper, I will be examining what Kant understands from the public use of reason, and why it is regarded as necessary for (the) enlightenment, taking into account not just his prominent essay, ¡°An Answer to the Question: ¡®What is Enlightenment?¡¯,¡± but also The Conflict of the Faculties
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/flsf/issue/41871/459946