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Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer's "The Dialectic of Enlightenment" (Part 1/2)

Theory & Philosophy

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The End of the World - Chapter Three, Excurses Two

Kant says that enlightenment is a point at which people are not dependent on others for knowledge. He proposes what he calls transcendental idea alism, which is just coming into recognition that the world doesn't necessarily exist per se. So we have this propensity for morality that imparts a kind of judgment upon the world. And i'm going to build more from it as we go through kant's text.

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