Government

Why did government come about? What is the base for government? - it used to be the Divine Right of Kings, but now that's not allowed.

"Men work themselves gradually out of barbarity if only intentional artifices are no tmade to hold them in it." - Kant, Kant, What is Enlightenment?

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Wrote Kant, What is Enlightenment?
Man's primary problem isn't sin; it's that he doesn't have the freedom to reason & be enlightened (??)

Background

came from Prussia, wrote under Frederick the Great
Kant - a rationalist who wants to confine reason to the bounds of experience

reason is bound by the condition of possible experience; cannot reason about unexperienced things
so, we can't reason a/b God crating the world because we didn't experience it


...'s view of Gov

• man must have freedom to think/speak what he likes
• but he has to follow authority in his actions
• "Guardians" of actions, not thoughts