Kant
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Kant “What is Enlightenment?” and Lessing’s “Nathan the Wise” and/or Schiller’s “The Robbers”
Kant states in his essay “What is Enlightenment?” that “enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage” (Kant 1) and proclaims the motto of enlightenment as to “Have the courage to use your own understanding” (Kant 1). How do the protagonists of your chosen texts exemplify Kant’s enlightenment motto?