The Challenges of the Modern Mind Set

Descartes and many after him make an assumption about reason, that it's universal. If wed just applied our reason to every field, we'd see the same explosion of progress as with the natural sciences. John locke declared that all people are born free and promoted some of the earliest writings on individual liberty or notions of private property. emanuel kant said in his essay, what is enlightenment? He says this immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another.