1st Half of Kant Paper

Solomon wrote that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. Socrates said that his wisdom was to know he was not wise. It seems that Kant would say “by the proper application of reason I am wise.”Perhaps he could defend this break from the ancients by saying his enlightenment is the result of a mature wisdom still for the individual in Kant’s path there is no place for humility except for the shameful self-incurred variety. This self-incurred humility either occurs in the individual who will not “boldly” “dare to know” or else in the priest who, as a hired man, instructs others in the most difficult and costly life choices which he may or may not believe. Other than in the sad cases of cowardice or hypocrisy, no individual acknowledges anything superior to their own individual human reason. Rather each thinking man is lord over his own mind and looks to no other for wisdom.
Kant’s paradigm recognizes the possibility for error in reason but this is to be solved by free public discourse, which is of course just the massive application of individual human reason. It is only by this Darwinian environment of ideas that a subject of thought can become mature. This supposes that the great tragedies, the great follies and great evils of human history occurred because of a lack of applying human reason rather than through the relentless and reoccurring application of that human reason to tragic, foolish and unabashedly wicked ends. If human reason were naturally as trustworthy and noble as Kant supposes one would wonder how in human history it had been unnaturally subjugated so that the majority in Kant’s day preferred self-incurred ignorance. Either some humans used their reason to subjugate others and were near universally able to do so against other humans capable of reason or else some evil genius interfered with human’s reason so that the majority became clouded by ignorance. In either case Kant’s theory supposes that for no stated reason the subjugating humans will now no longer be successful or else that evil genius has for no stated reason ceased to cloud human reason.
Considering these reservations against the infallibility of human reason it becomes necessary to explain why I study philosophy and am pursuing a career in education, which is primarily about strengthening
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