Kant's What Is Enlightenment

Kant wrote "What is Enlightenment" to describe what Enlightenment meant to him, about nonage, the role of an individual in seeking Enlightenment, to encourage individuals to seek Enlightenment , and to define and explain a governing principle of Enlightenment philosophy. Kant includes central ideas like the two groups in society, guardians and angels. Guardians lead and have a plan and a sense of direction while minors follow these plans. Kant says that guardians exist because minors enable them to, people choose to be minors because it's easier, and once they have the power guardians use it to manipulate minors into submission. Kant also used the strategies of cause and effect and compare and contrast. Cause and effect was used to describe
that freedom a prerequisite for enlightenment and also that one cannot achieve this state without having freedom. Compare and contrast was used to distinguish between limitations that are harmful and those that are not.