Kant: ¿Qué es la Ilustración?

Good evening. This video is about Camps' text, which is about the Enlightenment. Well, in this text, he will analyze his era and his time. His era is the Age of Enlightenment. How can we characterize this Age of Enlightenment? What will be the principle that, according to Kant, will describe this era? And the principle is to think

for oneself. Yes, that is the fundamental principle of the Enlightenment. And what does it mean to think for oneself? It is to put all our judgments under examination. Remember that for Kant, thinking and judging are the same. Therefore, putting one's own judgments under examination is to examine what we think. So, what ideas are we putting here? It

opposes individuals following opinions based on the authority of others. That is to say, thinking for oneself is opposing an inertia where one simply follows the opinions of others. So, for Kant, the Enlightenment is a revolution. It is a revolution, but one that has a characteristic: it does not require violence. It is not a revolution that

implies a change of government or form of government, but rather a reform of thinking, not so much in content but in form. Yes, it is a reform of thinking; it is reaching a point where one thinks for oneself. Camps himself says that enlightenment is man's emergence from self-imposed immaturity, from culpable immaturity, and so we have to analyze what Camps means by that. What does he mean by immaturity? That

is, culpable immaturity. Not a child is a minor, but their immaturity isn't culpable because they are a child. But let's suppose if someone is over 18 and continues to behave like a minor, then that's culpable immaturity. And what does this immaturity refer to? It refers to the inability to use one's own understanding. That is,