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Reflections on the "Dialectics in Enlightenment":A Review of Kant's "An Answer to the Question:What is Enlightenment"

Deng An-qin

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The symbiosis between and whole process of modernization makes criticism of modernity become criticism of enlightenment.There is no nontrivial originality in thought that is a dialectical process.The key to making an in-depth observation of phenomenon of the enlightenment entailing is how to rise above intrinsic limitations of rather than to make a U turn from advocating to opposing it,for as a mode of thinking dialectics is totally against external negation characterized by making a simple choice between two extremes of good or bad.The achievement of an internal solution to limitations entailed in enlightenment,however,requires our recourse to formulations presented by the authors of enlightenment classics.

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The symbiosis between and whole process of modernization makes criticism of modernity become criticism of enlightenment.There is no nontrivial originality in thought that is a dialectical process.The key to making an in-depth observation of phenomenon of the enlightenment entailing is how to rise above intrinsic limitations of rather than to make a U turn from advocating to opposing it,for as a mode of thinking dialectics is totally against external negation characterized by making a simple choice between two extremes of good or bad.The achievement of an internal solution to limitations entailed in enlightenment,however,requires our recourse to formulations presented by the authors of enlightenment classics.

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The symbiosis between and whole process of modernization makes criticism of modernity become criticism of enlightenment.There is no nontrivial originality in thought that is a dialectical process.The key to making an in-depth observation of phenomenon of the enlightenment entailing is how to rise above intrinsic limitations of rather than to make a U turn from advocating to opposing it,for as a mode of thinking dialectics is totally against external negation characterized by making a simple choice between two extremes of good or bad.The achievement of an internal solution to limitations entailed in enlightenment,however,requires our recourse to formulations presented by the authors of enlightenment classics.

Key concepts: Enlightenment, Dialectic, Modernity, Criticism, Epistemology, Philosophy, Originality, Phenomenon

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