In today's episode, we get to visit one of the most famous texts in philosophy: Immanuel Kant's "Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?" While this short essay can be exciting for undergraduates who are (hopefully) starting to think for themselves, its implications for the religious and for philosophers of religion are less clear. Is tradition a bad thing? Is trusting one's "guardians" always worse than finding one's own answers to religious questions? Is the Enlightenment philosophy of modernity simply one more form of dogmatism? Ask yourself these and related questions while you listen to and think through passages of Kant's prose in German and English!

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