2004•Yunnan Daxue xuebao. Shehui kexue banRequires access
Enlightenment: Reason and Rationalism
Han Shui-f
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Abstract
With Kant's enlightening maxims as the starting point, the author analyses the complicated relationship between enlightenment and reason, reason and rationalism, and reaches the following conclusion: when reason is defined as a kind of rationalism, enlightenment is separated from this very rationalism. Thus, it is not that enlightenment does not need rationalism but that rationalism confines itself and hinders the development of enlightenment.