英文摘要 |
Roy Porter in his succinct analysis of the Enlightenment proffers an intriguing question. Did the Enlightenment successfully challenge the established authorities or has the Enlightenment become the established authority itself (6)? His answer is that the Enlightenment attempts and achieves both. Dedicated to “man's release from his self-incurred tutelage,” any Enlightenment thinker demonstrates the autonomous and courageous use of his own reason.2 Hence he dares to question religious doctrines, subjecting them to the tribunal of rational examination, like David Hume. |