Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is man’s emer-gence from his self-imposed im-maturity for which he himself was responsible. Immaturity and de-pendence are the inability to use one’s own intellect without the direc-tion of another. One is responsible for this immaturity and dependence, if its cause is not a lack of intelligence, but a lack of deter-mination and courage to think without the direction of another. Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding! is therefore the slogan of Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant (1784) 2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets (Ehrlich II) | Nuremberg, 03 October 2008 3 • 57 To bear in Remembrance... Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither under-stood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. Karl R. Popper Even though it’s applied science we’re dealin ’ with, it still is – science