By Marcus Clavinicus

Most religions (and many philosophies as well) recount fantastic and extraordinary tales about the creation of human beings. Usually, these stories describe how a god or gods fashioned humans and imparted them with a soul.

By Marcus Clavinicus

By Immanuel Kant, 1784

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] "Have courage to use your own understanding!"--that is the motto of enlightenment.