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Answer the question: What is Enlightenment?
Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?
(Konigsberg in Prussia, 30 September 1784)
By
Immanuel Kant
(Born in 1724 and died in 1804)
Translation into English by Daniel Fidel Ferrer (2013)
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Table of Contents
Immanuel Kant’s Text translated into English (pages 2 to 10).
Notes, Bibliography, Related Links, Etc., Appendix A (pages 12 to 24).
Word Index (pages 25 to 43).
[Start of Immanuel Kant’s Text]:
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity
(selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit). Immaturity is the inability to use one
understanding without guidance from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage
when its cause lies not in lack of understanding (Versandes), but rather of
resolve and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere Aude!
[Latin translated: Dare to know, from Horace]. Have courage to use your
own mind! Thus is the motto of Enlightenment.
Laziness and cowardice are the causes (Ursachen), why such a large
part of humanity, after nature has released them from external guidance
(natura liter maiorennes) [Latin translated: come of age via nature],
remain; but like life immaturity, and why it is so easy to set themselves up
as their guardians. It is so convenient to be immature. I have a book, which
understands for me, a pastor who has conscience (Gewissen) for me, and a
physician who decides my diet, etc., so I do not even need to try. I do not
think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for
me. That by far the largest proportion of people (including the entire
(ganze) fair sex), the step to maturity, but this is that it difficult, even for
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very dangerous to think, have rendered those guardians, the ultimate
supervisor (Oberaufsicht) of them graciously took upon themselves. Once
they have made their domestic cattle first stupid and have made sure that
were these placid creatures will not dare step without the harness is it a like
a children’s walking cart (Perreten), if they try it go alone it shows them
the danger to them threatens. Now this danger is not so great, for they
would learn to walk by falling a few steps times, but an example of this
kind makes men timid and usually frightens them out of all further
attempts.
So it is difficult for any single individual to work himself out of
immaturity as has become almost his own nature. He has even grown fond
and forehand is really incapable of his own use of his understanding
(Verstandes), because you never let him make the attempt. Statutes and
formulas, those mechanical tools of the rational use, or rather misuse, of his
natural gifts, are the fetters of an everlasting immaturity (Unmündigkeit).
Whoever throws them off would still do well on the narrowest trench only
an uncertain leap, because he is not accustomed to kind of free movement.
Therefore, there are few who have succeeded in extricate themselves by
their own exercise of mind (Geistes) from immaturity and still a steady
pace.
But that the public should enlighten itself is more possible, yes, it is; if
one is only allowed freedom, Enlightenment is almost sure. For there will
always be some independent thinkers (Selbstdenkende), found even among
the established guardians of the great masses, who, after throwing off the
yoke of immaturity themselves thrown to think the spirit of a reasonable
estimate of their own worth and every man's vocation, will spread even to
themselves. Especially is herein: that the public, which previously brought
by them under this yoke by them afterwards even, forces them to remain
among them, when some of his guardians (Vormünder), who are altogether
incapable of Enlightenment been incited to do so. Thus, harmful it is, to
plant prejudices; for they finally take revenge on those themselves, or their
predecessors have been their authors. Thus, a public can only slowly attain
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Enlightenment. A revolution is perhaps probably a waste of personal
despotism or of avaricious or tyrannical oppression (herrschsüchtiger
Bedrückung); but never a true reform in ways of thinking can come about;
but rather, are new prejudices, just as well serve as the old ones to harness
the great unthinking mass (gedankenlosen großen Haufens).
For this Enlightenment nothing is required but freedom, namely the
most harmless amongst all what may be called freedom, namely: to make
use of one’s reason (Vernunft) in all public use. But I hear calling from all
sides: do not argue! The officer says: do not argue but rather drill! The tax
collector: do not argue, but rather pay! The clergyman: do not argue, but
rather believe! (Only one ruler in the world says: argue all you want and
what you want, but obey (gehorcht)). Here is everywhere restriction
(Einschränkung) of freedom. But which restriction hinders Enlightenment
and which not, but instead actually advances it? - I answer: the public use
of reason (Vernunft) must always be free, and it alone can bring about
Enlightenment among men; the private use (Privatgebrauch) of reason may
often be very narrowly restricted without particularly hindering the
progress of Enlightenment. But I understand the public use (öffentlichen
Gebrauche) of one's reason, to anyone as a scholar makes of reason before
the entire literate world. Private use I call that which he entrusted to him in
a certain civil post or office shall make use of his reason. Is now to some
businesses (Geschäfte) that run in the interest of the community, a certain
mechanism is necessary, by means of which some members of the
community must passively conduct themselves in order, by an artificial
unanimity, the government for public purposes or the destruction of at least
held to these purposes. It is certainly not allowed to see reason alternative,
but rather one must obey. If, however, this part of the machine [Translator
note: German word is ‘Maschine’] at the same time as a member of a
whole commonwealth, regards itself at the world civil society, and thus in
the quality of a scholar who can addresses an audience at the proper sense
of expediency alternate, however, without prejudice to the businesses
suffering to which he is in part responsible as a passive member. So it
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would be very disastrous if an officer, who is commanded by his superior,
was serving on the desirability or utility of a given to command -- he must
obey. He cannot be justly constrained from making a scholar of the error in
the military service notes and submit them to the public for their opinion.
The citizen cannot refuse to pay the taxes imposed on them, indeed,
impertinent criticism of such levies, if they are to be paid by them, as a
scandal (occasion general insubordination) could be punished. However,
the same person does not act contrary notwithstanding this the duty of a
citizen, when he publicly expresses his thoughts as a scholar resists the
impropriety or even injustice of such tenders. Similarly, a clergyman is
connected to do his catechism students and his community after the Church
he serves his presentation symbol [Translator note: the German word is
indeed: Symbol], for he has been accepting to this condition. But as a
scholar he has complete freedom, indeed even the calling to all his
carefully tested and well-intentioned thoughts on the faulty in that symbol
and suggestions for the better establishment of religion and Church being
communicated to the audience. There is devised nothing that could be put
to burden his conscience. For what he teaches as a result of his duties as
business of the Church, which he presents as something, in respect of
which he has not free of violence to teach as he sees fit; but rather that he is
hired to carry forward provision for and in the name of another. He will
say: our Church teaches this or that and these are the arguments, which he
uses. He thus extracts all practical uses for his congregation from precepts
to which he would not himself subscribe with complete conviction; but
whose presentation he can nonetheless undertake, since it is not entirely
impossible that truth lies hidden; but in any event, at least nothing of the
inner religion contradictory fact is encountered. Because he believed he
had found them, he would not administer his office with a conscience, and
he would have to resign. The use, therefore, to an appointed teacher makes
of his reason before his congregation is merely private, because this is only
one home, however large meeting, and in respect of which he is a priest not
free and should it not also be such because he is someone else. In contrast,
as a scholar, who through his writings to his public; says the world, the
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clergyman in the public use of his reason enjoys an unlimited freedom to
use his own reason and to speak in his own person. If the fact that the
guardians of the people (in spiritual matters) should themselves be
immature is an absurdity, which amounts to the perpetuation of absurdities
(Denn daß die Vormünder des Volks (in geistlichen Dingen) selbst wieder
unmündig sein sollen, ist eine Ungereimtheit, die auf Verewigung der
Ungereimtheiten hinausläuft).
But should not be a society of pastors, perhaps a Church assembly or a
venerable classis (as they call themselves among the Dutch), authorized to
commit itself by oath to a certain unalterable symbol in order to secure a
constant guardianship over each of its members and by means they lead
over the people and to perpetuate this at all? I say this is altogether
impossible. Such a contract (Kontrakt), whose intention is to shut off
forever all further Enlightenment of the human race would be closed, is
absolutely null and void and even if it should be confirmed by the supreme
power, by parliaments, and the most solemn peace treaties. One age
(Zeitalter) cannot bind itself and to conspire (verschwören), to put the
following in a condition that it must be impossible for it to extent it (mainly
so earnestly (angelegentliche)) knowledge of errors and clean all
continuous writing (weiterzuschreiten) in the Enlightenment. That would
be a crime against human nature, whose original determination
(Bestimmung) lies precisely in such progress, and the offspring would be
fully justified in rejecting those agreements as unauthorized and take
malicious manner to discard. Whether the people could themselves have
imposed such a law: the touchstone of all that can be adopted as law by a
people lies in the question? Now this would have to speak with the
expectation of a better specific short period possible to introduce some
order: one might let every citizen, and especially the clergy, freely and
publicly in the quality of a scholar, that is, make through his writings, on
the erroneous of the present institution's remarks. However, the newly
introduced order might last until insight into the nature of these matters had
so far and tried, that by uniting their voices (though not all) of a proposal
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could bring the throne to take those congregations under protection which
had united after their terms of better access to a changed religious
organization, but without interfering with those who wanted to leave it at
the same. But a persistent, some from anyone publicly doubting religion
constitution even within the lifetime of a human, and thus destroy a period
in the progress of mankind toward improvement, and is fruitless. But this
probably disadvantage even to make the progeny (Nachkommenschaft) is
absolutely unauthorized. A man may for his person, and even then only for
some time in what is for him to know, postpone Enlightenment; but to do it
to renounce it for himself, but even more for posterity, is the sacred violate
human rights and get trampled underfoot (Füßen). But what may not
decree a people by themselves may still less by a monarch, the people, for
their legal authority rests on the fact that it unites the entire people’s will
(Volkswillen) in their own. If he only sees to it that all the real or
perceived improvement there with the civil order: he may demonstrate to
his subject’s salvation sake by the way can only make themselves
necessary what they are doing. This does not concern him, but rather to
prevent, lest any other violent is prevented, in the provision and delivery
the same to work his fortune after all. He does even his majesty crash
when he mixes in this, since the writings, which seek to bring his subjects
their insights into the pure, evaluate his own governance, he does this on
his own highest insight, where he lays upon himself the reproach: Caesar
non est supra Grammaticos [Latin translated: Caesar is not above the
grammarians], as well. It is still more when his supreme authority as far
humbled, to support the spiritual despotism of some tyrants in his state over
his other subjects.
When we are asked now: are we now living into an enlightened age?
Then answer is: No (Nein), but in an age of Enlightenment. That the
people, as matters now stand, in the whole (Ganzen), would have been able
to or could be reduced only in religious matters are using their own
understanding without direction from another secure and good to use, it is
still missing a lot. The very fact that now being opened for the field to deal
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with these things and that the obstacles (Hindernisse) to general
Enlightenment or the release from their self-imposed immaturity is
gradually less, of which we have clear indications. In this regard, this age is
the age of Enlightenment or the century of Frederick (In diesem Betracht
ist dieses Zeitalter das Zeitalter der Aufklärung, oder das Jahrhundert
Friederichs).
A prince (Ein Fürst), who finds it not unworthy, that he considered it
a duty in matters of religion prescribe nothing to men; but rather to allow
complete freedom while renouncing the haughty name of tolerance, is
himself enlightened and deserves to be praised by a grateful world and
posterity as the first to the sexual immaturity of the human race, proposed
(entschlug) at least part of the government, and each was free to operate in
all matters of conscience to his own reason. Under him venerable clergy
(Geistliche) are allowed, regardless of their official duties, they from the
accepted symbol here or there different judgments and insights into the
quality of the scholars freely and publicly explain the world for testing; but
much more than any other, which is restricted by no official duties
(Amtspflich). This spirit of freedom spreads beyond this land, even where
external obstacles to a misunderstanding their own government is
struggling; because this is illuminated by the example that was at liberty to
procure for the public peace (öffentliche Ruhe) and not in the least the
unity of the commonwealth. People gradually work their way little by little
from rudness (Roheit) of their own accord if only one does not deliberately
to keep them in it. (Die Menschen arbeiten sich von selbst nach und nach
aus der Roheit heraus, wenn man nur nicht absichtlich künstelt, um sie
darin zu erhalten).
I have the main point (Hauptpunkt) of Enlightenment, that is [d.i.],
the escape of men from their self-imposed immaturity, especially set in
matters of religion: because in respect to the arts and sciences, our rulers
(Beherrscher) have no interest in playing guardian over their subjects,
moreover, even those immaturity, as is the most harmful, so even the most
degrading of all. But the thinking of a head of state who favors religious
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Enlightenment goes even further and sees: that even in regard to its
legislation, there is no danger of allowing his subjects to exercise their own
public reason use and their thoughts concerning better formulations of the
same even with a frank criticism of the already given, before the public
world, of which we have a shining example wherein no monarch surpasses
the one whom we venerate [Translator note: or, ‘worship’, or, ‘adore’; the
German word is ‘verehren’].
But only one who is himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows, at the
same time, however, has a well-disciplined and numerous army to
guarantee public peace, can say what no free state (Freistaat) may dare,
namely: argue all you want, and about what you want; but obey! It appears
here is a strange, unexpected transition in human affairs, as well as
elsewhere, when you look at it in the large, in which almost everything is
paradoxical. A greater degree of civil freedom seems advantageous to a
people freedom of thought and yet it places inescapable limitations, a lesser
degree of contrast gives this room, all fully to expand its capacity. If,
however, that is the hillside and work for free thinking is unwrapped, the
nature of this hard shell, the germ, for which it makes most fondly: so does
this return gradually to the temperament (Sinnesart) of the people (which
this act of freedom gradually is enabled). Finally even to the principles of a
government [Translator note: or regime (Regierung)], which itself is would
provide conducive to them, the man who is now more machine than as to
treat their dignity. *)
[Kant’s uses the = “ *) ” as his a symbol for this footnote].
Konigsberg in Prussia, 30 September. 1784.
I. Kant
*) I read just today, the weekly news of Büsching's wöchentliche
Nachrichten of 13 September, that in 30 September in the Monthly
Berlinischen, in which the Herrn Mendelssohn has answered the just stated
the same question. To me his answer has not yet come to hand, otherwise I
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would have held back the current essay, because which may now be only
for testing how far the chance’s path could bring unanimity of our thought.
[(*) In den Büsching'schen wöchentlichen Nachrichten vom 13. Sept. lese
ich heute den 30sten eben dess. die Anzeige der Berlinischen Monatsschrift
von diesem Monat, worin des Herrn Mendelssohn Beantwortung eben
derselben Frage angeführt wird. Mir ist sie noch nicht zu Händen
gekommen; sonst würde sie die gegenwärtige zurückgehalten haben, die
jetzt nur zum Versuche da stehen mag, wiefern der Zufall Einstimmigkeit
der Gedanken zuwege bringen könne.]. This is Kant’s only footnote in his
text.
END of Immanuel Kant’s TEXT.
[Last page, citation: Immanuel Kant AA. VIII. AK 8:42].
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Translator’s remarks. My translation is closer word for word of Immanuel
Kant’s actual written text than most of the other translations; therefore, I
did not re-write or revise Kant to help the reader better understand Kant. I
have generally followed Kant’s punctuation and paragraphs as well. All
translations are an interpretation – even mine. Indeed, Kant’s German is
not easy. Caveats are many: I am not a native speaker of German, I do not
know conversational German, I do not teach the German language, I am
not a philologist, and I am not a professional translator. Martin Luther who
did the famous translation of the Bible into German wrote in a letter, “If
anyone does not like my translation, they can ignore it… (September 15,
1530)”. I did this translation to learn some of Immanuel Kant’s German
and appreciate the feel of Kant’s text.
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Dedication and Acknowledgements.
To my many conversations with Harvey Williams about Immanuel Kant. A
lunch and an afternoon walk with Professor Dr. Lewis White Beck.
Recently, my e-mails about Immanuel Kant’s philosophy with Professor
Dr. A. K. Rai of Banaras Hindu University’s Philosophy Department
(where I went to graduate school). I would also like to acknowledge the
general philosophical encouragement of Professor Dr. Dr. Holger
Zaborowski. My longtime friend and philosophical questioner: Richard
Pulaski, including our recent conversations on purpose of Kant’s project. I
alone have done this translation. All the errors our mine alone.
Dedication to family members. Julius Kuhn (born in the city of Verden an
der Aller, Germany in 1847; he died in 1890 in the city of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, U.S.A.). Ernesto B. Ferrer, Louise (born Reavis) Ferrer, Joseph
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Rafael Ferrer, Loren Fidel Ferrer, and Cory G. Ferrer. My family in
Germany (Deutschland), particularly: Dr. Jan-Peter Wülbern and his wife
Almuth Wülbern. Friends in Chicago and Khambholaj, Natu Patel and
families.
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Notes, Bibliography, Related Links, Etc., Appendix A
Notes for the text.
Original publication of Immanuel Kant’s essay:
By Immanuel Kant. “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?” in
Berlinische Monatsschrift Book. 4, 12. (December, 1784), pages 481-494.
Berlinische Monatsschrift. 1783-1811 (full scan text for these years).
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufkl/berlmon/berlmon.htm
Immanuel Kant: AA VIII, AK 8: 33 to AK 8:42. Beantwortung der Frage:
Was ist Aufklärung? 1784. Academy Edition of Immanuel Kant (AK).
Elektronische Edition der Gesammelten Werke Immanuel Kants. Normal
citation format is AK, volume, and page number.
In this case, this essay is Immanuel Kant AK 8:33 to 8:42.
From Immanuel Kant’s Volume 8, title page, page 33:
http://www.korpora.org/Kant/aa08/033.html
To Immanuel Kant’s Volume 8, last page, page 42:
http://www.korpora.org/Kant/aa08/042.html
Latin phrases used in the text by Immanuel Kant.
Sapere Aude!
[Latin translated: Dare to Know]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapere_aude
From Quintus Horatius Flaccus (born 65 BC – died in 8 BC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace
natura liter maiorennes
[Latin translated: come of age via nature]
[Latin translated: those who come of age by virtue of nature]
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Caesar non est supra Grammaticos
[Latin translated: Caesar is not above the grammarians]
[Latin translated: the emperor is not above the grammerians]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(C)
German Links:
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beantwortung_der_Frage:_Was_ist_Aufkl%C
3%A4rung%3F
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn
Ueber die Frage: was heißt aufklären? By Moses Mendelssohn.
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Ueber_die_Frage:_was_hei%C3%9Ft_aufkl
%C3%A4ren%3F Citation: Berlinische Monatsschrift Bd. 4 (1784), pages
193-200.
Berlinische Monatsschrift. 1783-1811 (full scan text for these years).
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufkl/berlmon/berlmon.htm
Immanuel Kant’s writings in German, AK, volumes 1-23.
Elektronische Edition der Gesammelten Werke Immanuel Kants.
Druckähnliche Darstellung der Bände 1-23.
http://www.korpora.org/Kant/
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Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm. 16 Bde. in 32
Teilbänden. Leipzig 1854-1961. Quellenverzeichnis. Leipzig 1971. Online-
Version vom 10.08.2013.
“aufklärung, f. aufklärung ist die maxime jederzeit selbst zu denken. Kant
1, 136; befreiung vom aberglauben heiszt aufklärung, weil, obschon diese
benennung auch der befreiung von vorurtheilen überhaupt zukommt, jener
doch vorzugsweise ein vorurtheil genannt zu werden verdient. 7, 153;[Bd.
1, Sp. 675] man spricht viel von aufklärung und wünscht mehr licht. mein
gott, was hilft aber alles licht, wenn die leute entweder keine augen haben,
oder die, welche sie haben, vorsätzlich verschlieszen. Lichtenberg 1, 201.
auch nur aufschlusz, erklärung: kannst du mir aufklärung geben?”
English Links:
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/
http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/DB047
Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_is_Enlightenment%3F
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mendelssohn/
Moses Mendelssohn. “On the question: what does“to enlighten” mean?”
Philosophical Writings. By Moses Mendelssohn and Daniel O. Dahlstrom.
(Cambridge University Press, 1997), pages 311-317.
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Age of Enlightenment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/
Background and Historical Context.
Steve Naragon of Manchester University gives us these remarks on the
historical and background on the occasion of Immanuel Kant’s essay on
Enlightenment and he writes:
“Enlightenment “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?”
in Berlinische Monatsschrift (December 1784), pages 481-94. [AK. 8:35-
42] “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” Translated by
Ted Humphrey in Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace and Other
Essays (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983), pages 41-46. Translated by Mary J.
Gregor in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, edited by Mary J. Gregor
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pages 17-22.
J. F. Zöllner published an article in the December 1783 issue of the
Berlinische Monatsschrift in which he opposed the institution of civil
marriage — an idea suggested in an article anonymously written by the
journal’s editor, J. E. Biester, for the previous September issue and which
claimed that tying marriage to religion was contrary to Enlightenment
ideals. Zöllner countered that marriage was too important an institution for
this and required a stability that only religion could provide. The very
foundations of morality were being shaken, Zöllner wrote, and we should
rethink our steps before “confusing the hearts and minds of the people in
the name of Enlightenment” — at which point he asked in a footnote:
“What is enlightenment? This question, which is nearly as important as
‘What is truth?’ should be answered before one begins to enlighten.”
Zöllner’s question led to a series of essays appearing in the Berlinische
Monatsschrift and elsewhere, most famously Kant’s (Dec. 1784). An essay
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by Moses Mendelssohn (“On the Question: What is Enlightenment?”) was
first delivered as a speech (16 May 1784) before the “Wednesday Society”
to which he, Zöllner, Biester, and other leading figures of the Berlin
Enlightenment belonged.”
http://www.manchester.edu/kant/helps/KantsLife.htm#1780
Steve Naragon of Manchester University gives us these remarks on the
historical and background on Immanuel Kant’s essay on Enlightenment,
and in these specific remarks about the role, that Johann Friedrich Zöllner
(1753-1804) played in the overall process and events; and he writes:
“Zöllner also belonged to a secret society in Berlin known as the
“Wednesday Society” (Mittwochsgesellschaft), although members referred
to the group as “Friends of Enlightenment.” It included various high
government officials like von Dohm and Klein, philosophers like Moses
Mendelssohn, theologians like Spalding, Teller, and Zöllner, as well as the
two editors of the Berlinische Monatsschrift (Gedike and Biester ), perhaps
the leading journal of enlightenment thought in Germany. Zöllner
published an article in the December 1783 issue of that journal in which he
opposed the institution of civil marriage — an idea suggested in an article
anonymously written by Biester for the September issue and which claimed
that tying marriage to religion was contrary to Enlightenment ideals.
Zöllner countered that marriage was too important an institution for this,
and that it required the stability only religion could provide. The very
foundations of morality were being shaken, he wrote, and we should
rethink our steps before “confusing the hearts and minds of the people in
the name of Enlightenment” — at which point he asked in a footnote:
“What is enlightenment? This question, which is nearly as important as
‘What is truth?’ should be answered before one begins to enlighten.” This
question led to a series of essays appearing in the Berlinische Monatsschrift
and elsewhere, most famously Immanuel Kant’s “In answer to the
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question: What is Enlightenment?” (Dec. 1784). Moses Mendelssohn's
essay (“On the Question: What is Enlightenment?”) was first delivered as a
speech (16 May 1784) before the same “Wednesday Society.”
http://www.manchester.edu/kant/Bio/FullBio/ZollnerJF.html
Berliner Mittwochsgesellschaft (Wednesday Society)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Mittwochsgesellschaft
Gesellschaft der Freunde der Aufklärung,
or Society of Friends of the Enlightenment.
Founded in the Fall 1783, and dissolved in Novermber 1798 (by order of
Frederick William III of Prussia). There were 24 members. Most of the
members published articles in the Berlinische Monatsschrift.
James Schmidt wrote: “In addition to serving as co-editor of the
Berlinische Monatsschrift, Biester was secretary to Baron Karl Abraham
von Zedlitz (Frederick II’s minister for ecclesiastical and educational
affairs) as well as librarian of the Royal Library in Berlin. ”What Counts as
an Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?”. By James Schmidt.
http://people.bu.edu/jschmidt/James_Schmidt/Welcome_files/What%20Co
unts.pdf
Manfred Kuehn in his outstanding biography of Immanuel Kant
writes: “In December of that same year he published his essay "What Is
Enlightenment?" - again in the Berlinische Monatsschrift. Kant dated it
September 30, 1784. The essay represents a response to a question by
Johann Friedrich Zöllner (1748-1805), who was a member of a group of
Enlightenment thinkers centered in Berlin. In response to an article in the
Monatsschrift, whose author had advocated that priests and ministers
should no longer play a role in marriage, and that the religious ceremony of
marriage contra dicted the spirit of the Enlightenment, Zöllner argued that
the principles of morality were already in decline (wankend) and that the
disparagement of religion could only accelerate this process. One should
not, "in the name of Enlightenment confuse the heads and hearts of the
people." In a note in the text, he asked: "What is Enlightenment? This
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question, which is all most as important as 'What is truth?' should really be
answered before one starts to enlighten! And yet, I have not found an
answer to it anywhere."
This was the question that Kant meant to answer. He was by no
means the only one who addressed this question. A dispute ensued. Kant's
answer was the most philosophical, or perhaps better, the most principled
one, but it was far from being the only one. He maintained that
Enlightenment is humanity's destiny, whereas most of the other papers
were concerned with more practical issue.” Kant: a biography,
(Cambridge University Press, 2001), page 290.
In part of Mary J. Gregor’s introduction to her translation in 1996 of
Immanuel Kant’s essay, she wrote:
“Since the eighteenth century was the “Age of Enlightenment,” it was
appropriate to ask “What is Enlightenment?” Kant's answer to the question
appeared in the December 1784 issue of the Berlinische Monatsschrift. As
his concluding note indicates, the September issue, which Kant had not yet
received, contained an essay on the same topic by Moses Mendelssohn.
The occasion for both replies to the question could have been an essay in
the December 1783 issue,
“Is It Advisable to Sanction Marriage through Religion?” by Johann
Friedrich Zöllner, which contained the passage:
“What is Enlightenment? The question, which is almost as
important as the question What is truth?, should be answered
before one begins to enlighten others. And yet I have never found
it answered anywhere.”
As might be expected, Kant's answer and Mendelssohn's were not in
agreement. Consistently with his eudaimonism, Mendelssohn had located
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enlightenment in the cultivation of what Kant would call the theoretical, as
distinguished from the practical, use of one's intellectual powers. To this
extent, Kant's reply to Garve in “Theory and Practice” would serve against
Mendelssohn as well.
Kant's insistence upon freedom of the press, in the present context as the
instrument of enlightenment, reappears in virtually all his political writings.
A number of points introduced here – Kant's distinction between the public
and the private use of reason, his principles of scriptural exegesis, his views
about what kind of sect a government could sanction consistently with its
own interest – were elaborated in a treatise written in 1794, which had to
be withheld from publication because of the repressive measures of
Frederick the Great's nephew and successor.” (Immanuel Kant, Practical
Philosophy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), page 13).
Johann Friedrich Zöllner (1748—1805). "Ist Es Rathsam, Das Ehebündniß
Nicht Ferner Durch Die Religion Zu Sancieren?" Berlinische Monatsschrift
II (December, 1783): pages 508-516); and on very last page, page 516 at
the bottom of the page, the footnote [ * ] asked the question: What is
Enlightenment? And Immanuel Kant was indeed most likley responding to
this question.
See. Berlinische Monatsschrift. 1783-1811 (full scan text for these years).
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufkl/berlmon/berlmon.htm
James Schmidt brilliant note on the use of German terminology by
Immanuel Kant in this essay.
“Notes 1. The phrase selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit is central to Kant's
entire argument. As Kant explained in his Anthropology, Unmündigkeit
designates both "minority of age" (Minderjährigkeit) and "legal or civil
immaturity" (AA VII: 208-209 [Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of
View, trans. Mary J. Gregor (The Hague, 1974), pages 79-80]). Those who
are legally immature—a group that includes children, so long as they
remain "naturally immature," and women, no matter what age—must be
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represented in legal proceedings by a "curator" (Kurator), a "proxy"
(Stellvertreter), or a "guardian" (Vormund). (All of these designations have
their origins in Roman law and were given exhaustive definitions in
Christian Wolff's Grundsätze des Naturund Völckerrechts §§898-912.)
[1769]. Kant's use of these terms echoes that of Ernst Ferdinand Klein, who
in an article on freedom of the press published a few months earlier in the
Berlinische Monatsschrift had called on those kings and princes who had
taken on the role of Vormüdern over their unmündigen Kinder to follow the
example of Frederick the Great and grant them freedom of expression
(translated above, pp. 90-91). Enlightened theologians such as Semler and
Spalding had also used the term.” “What Is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-
century Answers and Twentieth-century Questions. The Regents of the
University of California, 1996, page, 63. By James Schmidt.
Select Bibliography
Professor Dr. James Schmidt.
http://people.bu.edu/jschmidt/James_Schmidt/Welcome.html
James Schmidt, 2011. “Misunderstanding the Question: ‘What is
Enlightenment?’: Venturi, Habermas, and Foucault,” History of European
Ideas 37, no. 1 (2011), pages 43-52.
Schmidt, James, 2006. "What Enlightenment Was, What it Still Might Be,
and Why Kant May Have Been Right After All," American Behavioral
Scientist 49:5 (2006), pages 647-663.
Schmidt, James, 1999. “Liberalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth
Century Germany.” Critical Review, 13 (1–2), pages 31–53.
Schmidt, James, 1996. What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century
Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions, Berkeley: University of
California Press, xii, 563 pages. Many excellent translations from German.
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Schmidt, James, 1989. “The Question of Enlightenment: Kant,
Mendelssohn, and the Mittwochsgesellschaft.” Journal of the History of
Ideas, 50(2), pages 269–91.
Michael Clarke (1997). “Kant's Rhetoric of Enlightenment”. The Review
of Politics, Volume 59, No. 1 (Winter, 1997), pages 53-73
Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment? (Summary) - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3iFie_CrFc
Books by Immanuel Kant with this 1784 essay translated into
English
Chronological Order.
“Answer the Question, What is Enlightening?” By Immanuel Kant. Essays
and Treatises on Moral, Political, Religious, and Various Philosophical
Subjects. (London: William Richardson: 1798-1799). Volume I., pages A2
to 14. http://archive.org/details/essaysandtreati01kantgoog
“What is Enlightenment?” On history. By Immanuel Kant. Translation by
Lewis White Beck, Robert E. Anchor and Emil L. Fackenheim.
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963), pages 3-10.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-
dc.org/pdf/eng/12_EnlightPhilos_Doc.2_English.pdf
“An Answer to the Questions: ‘What is Enlightenment?”. By Immanuel
Kant. Translation by H.B. Nisbet. Kant’s Political Writings (Cambridge
University Press, 1970), pages 54-60.
“An answer to the question, What is enlightenment? (1784 )”. By
Immanuel Kant. Translation by Ted Humphrey. Perpetual peace, and
other essays on politics, history, and morals. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983),
pages 41-46.
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“What is Enlightenment? (1784)”. Foundations of Ethics. By Immanuel
Kant. Translation by Albert Anderson. (Millis MA: Agora Publications
1995, 2nd edition 2010), pages 1-6.
“An Answer To the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784)”. By
Immanuel Kant. Translation by By James Schmidt. What Is
Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-century Answers and Twentieth-century
Questions. By James Schmidt. (The Regents of the University of
California, 1996), pages 58-64.
Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996), pages 17-22. By Immanuel Kant. Translation by Mary J.
Gregor. Chapter DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511813306.005
Mary J. Gregor’s translation full text here:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/enlightenment.htm
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html
Here is an example of a short note from Immanuel Kant which has at the
end a remark about “enlightenment”.
“1020. 1773–75? 1775–77? 1776–78? 1778–79? M 251.
ρ2? σ2? υ4? χ4?? M 251'.
Immanuel Kant citation: AK Volume 15: 456
“Everything that is desired or abhorred must be represented (ignoti nulla
cupido); but not every representation is the cause of a desire. That in the
object which pleases practically as belonging to one’s condition or person
is desired, either practically or [as] wished. The placens or displicens is the
causa impulsiva. People can desire the same thing, but from different
motivating causes: honorableness pleases one person because it causes a
good reputation, etc. The causa impulsiva is either an impression or a
concept, a representation of satisfaction or dissatisfaction through the
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senses or the understanding, of the agreeable or the good. The first impel
per stimulos, the second per motiva. The arbitrium immediate eterminatum
per stimulos is brutum. Motiva are either sensitive quoad materiam and
immediate and intellectual only quoad formam aut media, but then they are
still stimuli, because an action derives its name from its cause and not its
manner. The motiva intellectualia pura are what please immediately in the
concept; now this is nothing other than a good will, since everything else
can only please conditionally as a means (e.g., the works of creation, the
talents of human beings) and has the condition that there is a will to make
good use of all this. Thus moral goodness alone is absolute goodness, and
the motiva moralia are pura. But that which is the universal necessary
means for distinguishing motives, namely the enlightenment of practical
reason, is also a motivum purum. Hence practical truth.”
[Doch ist das, was daß allgemein nothwendige Mittel ist sie zu
unterscheiden: nemlich die Aufklärung der practischen Vernunft, auch ein
motivum purum. Mithin practische Warheit.]
Notes and Fragments. By Immanuel Kant. (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005), pages 407-408. Also in http://books.google.com/
Appendix A.
First page of Immanuel Kant’s Text of 1784 from the German
Original
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[Caption: this is the first page of Immanuel Kant’s article in German and
from the original publication of 1784].
Index
A
AA, 10, 12, 19
aber, 14
aberglauben, 14
abhorred, 22
able, 7
about, 4, 9, 11, 16, 19, 22
above, 7, 13, 20
Abraham, 17
absichtlich, 8
absolute, 23
absolutely, 6-7
absurdities, 6
absurdity, 6
Academy, 12
accelerate, 17
accepted, 8
accepting, 5
access, 7
accord, 8
accustomed, 3
acknowledge, 11
Acknowledgements, 11
act, 5, 9
action, 23
actual, 10
actually, 4
addition, 17
addressed, 18
addresses, 4
administer, 5
adopted, 6
adore, 9
advances, 4
advantageous, 9
Advisable, 18
advocated, 17
affairs, 9, 17
afraid, 9
After, 20
after, 2-3, 5, 7
afternoon, 11
afterwards, 3
again, 17
against, 6, 19
Age, 15, 18
age, 2, 6-8, 12, 19
Agora, 22
agreeable, 23
agreement, 18
agreements, 6
AK, 10, 12-13, 15, 22
Albert, 22
Alice, 11
All, 10-11, 20
all, 3-9, 18-19, 23
Aller, 11
alles, 14
allgemein, 23
allow, 8
allowed, 3-4, 8
allowing, 9
almost, 3, 9, 18
Almuth, 11
alone, 3-4, 11, 23
Index
already, 9, 17
Also, 23
also, 5, 11, 16, 20, 23
alternate, 4
alternative, 4
although, 16
altogether, 3, 6
always, 3-4
am, 10
Amanda, 11
American, 20
among, 3-4, 6
amongst, 4
amounts, 6
Amtspflich, 8
An, 15, 21-22
an, 3-7, 10-11, 15-18, 20, 22-23
Anchor, 21
And, 18-19
and, 1-12, 14-24
Anderson, 22
angeführt, 10
angelegentliche, 6
anonymously, 15-16
another, 2, 5, 7
Answer, 1, 15, 17, 21-22
answer, 4, 7, 9, 16, 18, 21
answered, 9, 15-16, 18
Answering, 14
Answers, 20, 22
Anthropology, 19
any, 3, 5, 7-8
anyone, 4, 7, 10
anywhere, 18
Anzeige, 10
appeared, 18
appearing, 15-16
appears, 9
Appendix, 2, 12, 23
appointed, 5
appreciate, 10
appropriate, 18
arbeiten, 8
arbitrium, 23
are, 2-5, 7-8, 10, 19, 23
argue, 4, 9
argued, 17
argument, 19
arguments, 5
army, 9
article, 15-17, 20, 24
articles, 17
artificial, 4
arts, 8
As, 18-19
as, 2-10, 15-20, 22-23
Ashlynn, 11
Ashmita, 11
ask, 18
asked, 7, 15-17, 19
assembly, 6
at, 4-9, 15-16, 19, 22
attain, 3
attempt, 3
attempts, 3
Attribution, 10
auch, 14, 23
Aude, 2, 12
audience, 4-5
auf, 6
aufklären, 13
Aufklärung, 1, 8, 12-13, 15, 17, 23
aufklärung, 14
aufschlusz, 14
augen, 14
aus, 8
aut, 23
author, 17
authority, 7
authorized, 6
authors, 3
avaricious, 4
B
back, 10
Background, 15
background, 15-16
Banaras, 11
Baron, 17
BC, 12
Bd, 13-14
Bde, 14
Be, 20
be, 2-8, 10, 15-16, 18-19, 22
Beantwortung, 1, 10, 12-13, 15
Because, 5
because, 3, 5, 8, 10, 19, 22-23
Beck, 11, 21
become, 3
Bedrückung, 4
Index
Been, 20
been, 3, 5, 7, 18
before, 4-5, 9, 15-18
befreiung, 14
begins, 15-16, 18
Behavioral, 20
Beherrscher, 8
being, 5, 7, 15-16, 18
beings, 23
believe, 4
believed, 5
belonged, 16
belonging, 22
benennung, 14
Berkeley, 20
Berlin, 16-17
Berliner, 17
Berlinische, 12-13, 15-20
Berlinischen, 9-10
Bestimmung, 6
Betracht, 8
better, 5-7, 9-10, 18
between, 19
beyond, 8
Bible, 10
Bibliography, 2, 12, 20
Biester, 15-17
bind, 6
biography, 17-18
Bobbs, 21
Book, 12
book, 2
Books, 21
Born, 1
born, 11-12
both, 18-19
bottom, 19
brilliant, 19
bring, 4, 7, 10
bringen, 10
brought, 3
brutum, 23
burden, 5
business, 5
businesses, 4
But, 3-9, 23
but, 2-5, 7-9, 18, 22-23
BY, 10
By, 1, 12-14, 17, 20-23
by, 1-8, 12, 15-22
Bände, 13
Büsching, 9-10
C
Caesar, 7, 13
California, 20, 22
call, 4, 6, 19
called, 4, 20
calling, 4-5
Cambridge, 14-15, 18-19, 21-23
can, 2-7, 9-10, 22-23
cannot, 5-6
capacity, 9
Caption, 24
carefully, 5
carry, 5
cart, 3
case, 12
catechism, 5
cattle, 3
causa, 22
cause, 2, 22-23
causes, 2, 22
Caveats, 10
CCPL, 10
centered, 17
central, 19
Century, 20
century, 8, 18, 20, 22
ceremony, 17
certain, 4, 6
certainly, 4
chance, 10
changed, 7
Chapter, 22
Chicago, 11
children, 3, 19
Christian, 20
Chronological, 21
Church, 5-6
Citation, 13
citation, 10, 12, 22
citizen, 5-6
city, 11
civil, 4, 7, 9, 15-16, 19
claimed, 15-16
Clarke, 21
classis, 6
clean, 6
clear, 8
clergy, 6, 8
clergyman, 4-6
Index
closed, 6
closer, 10
co, 17
collector, 4
come, 2, 4, 9, 12
command, 5
commanded, 5
Commercial, 10
commit, 6
Commons, 10
commonwealth, 4, 8
communicated, 5
community, 4-5
complete, 5, 8
concept, 22-23
concern, 7
concerned, 18
concerning, 9
concluding, 18
condition, 5-6, 22-23
conditionally, 23
conducive, 9
conduct, 4
confirmed, 6
confuse, 17
confusing, 15-16
congregation, 5
congregations, 7
connected, 5
conscience, 2, 5, 8
considered, 8
Consistently, 18
consistently, 19
conspire, 6
constant, 6
constitution, 7
constrained, 5
contained, 18
Contents, 2
Context, 15
context, 19
continuous, 6
contra, 17
contract, 6
contradictory, 5
contrary, 5, 15-16
contrast, 5, 9
convenient, 2
conversational, 10
conversations, 11
conviction, 5
copyright, 10
Cory, 11
could, 5-7, 10, 15-19
countered, 15-16
Counts, 17
courage, 2
course, 11
cowardice, 2
crash, 7
creation, 23
Creative, 10
creatures, 3
crime, 6
Critical, 20
criticism, 5, 9
cultivation, 19
cupido, 22
curator, 20
current, 10
Curtis, 11
D
da, 10
Dahlstrom, 14
danger, 3, 9
dangerous, 3
Daniel, 1, 10-11, 14
Dare, 2, 12
dare, 3, 9
darin, 8
Darstellung, 13
Das, 19
das, 8, 23
dated, 17
daß, 6, 23
deal, 7
Dec, 15, 17
December, 12, 15-19
decides, 2
decline, 17
decree, 7
Dedication, 11
definitions, 20
degrading, 8
degree, 9
deliberately, 8
delivered, 16-17
delivery, 7
demonstrate, 7
Index
den, 10
denken, 14
Denn, 6
Department, 11
der, 1, 6, 8, 10-15, 17, 23
derives, 23
derselben, 10
des, 6, 10, 20
deserves, 8
designates, 19
designations, 20
desirability, 5
desire, 22
desired, 22
despotism, 4, 7
dess, 10
destiny, 18
destroy, 7
destruction, 4
determination, 6
Deutsches, 14
Deutschland, 11
devised, 5
dicted, 17
did, 10
Die, 8, 19
die, 6, 10, 13-14, 23
died, 1, 11-12
diese, 14
diesem, 8, 10
dieses, 8
diet, 2
different, 8, 22
difficult, 2-3
dignity, 9
Dingen, 6
direction, 2, 7
disadvantage, 7
disastrous, 5
discard, 6
disciplined, 9
disparagement, 17
displicens, 22
dispute, 18
dissatisfaction, 22
dissolved, 17
distinction, 19
distinguished, 19
distinguishing, 23
distribution, 10
do, 2-5, 7, 10
Doch, 23
doch, 14
does, 5, 7-10, 14
Dohm, 16
DOI, 22
doing, 7
Dolores, 11
domestic, 3
done, 11
doubting, 7
Dr, 11, 20
drill, 4
Druckähnliche, 13
du, 14
Durch, 19
Dutch, 6
duties, 5, 8
duty, 5, 8
E
each, 6, 8
earlier, 20
earnestly, 6
easy, 2, 10
eben, 10
ecclesiastical, 17
echoes, 20
edited, 15
Edition, 12-13
edition, 22
editor, 15, 17
editors, 16
educational, 17
Ehebündniß, 19
Eighteenth, 20, 22
eighteenth, 18
Eighteenthcentury, 20
Ein, 8
ein, 14, 23
eine, 6
Einschränkung, 4
Einstimmigkeit, 10
either, 22-23
elaborated, 19
Elektronische, 12-13
else, 5, 23
elsewhere, 9, 15-16
emergence, 2
Emil, 21
Index
emperor, 13
enabled, 9
encountered, 5
encouragement, 11
END, 10
end, 22
English, 1-2, 14, 21
enjoys, 6
enlighten, 3, 14-16, 18
Enlightened, 20
enlightened, 7-9
Enlightening, 21
Enlightenment, 1-4, 6-9, 14-22
enlightenment, 15-16, 19, 21-23
ensued, 18
entire, 2, 4, 7, 19
entirely, 5
entrusted, 4
entschlug, 8
entweder, 14
erhalten, 8
erklärung, 14
Ernesto, 11
Ernst, 20
erroneous, 6
error, 5
errors, 6, 11
Es, 19
escape, 8
Especially, 3
especially, 6, 8
essay, 10, 12, 15-19, 21
Essays, 15, 21
essays, 15-16, 21
est, 7, 13
established, 3
establishment, 5
estimate, 3
Etc, 2, 12
etc, 2, 22
eterminatum, 23
Ethics, 22
eudaimonism, 18
European, 20
evaluate, 7
even, 2-3, 5-10
event, 5
events, 16
everlasting, 3
every, 3, 6, 22
Everything, 22
everything, 9, 23
everywhere, 4
example, 3, 8-9, 20, 22
excellent, 20
exegesis, 19
exercise, 3, 9
exhaustive, 20
expand, 9
expectation, 6
expected, 18
expediency, 4
explain, 8
explained, 19
expresses, 5
expression, 20
extent, 6, 19
external, 2, 8
extracts, 5
extricate, 3
F
Fackenheim, 21
fact, 5-7
fair, 2
Fall, 17
falling, 3
families, 11
family, 11
famous, 10
famously, 15-16
far, 2, 6-7, 10, 18
faulty, 5
favors, 8
feel, 10
Ferdinand, 20
Ferner, 19
Ferrer, 1, 10-11
fetters, 3
few, 3, 20
Fidel, 1, 10-11
field, 7
figures, 16
Finally, 9
finally, 3
finds, 8
First, 23
first, 3, 8, 16-17, 23-24
fit, 5
Flaccus, 12
Index
follow, 20
followed, 10
following, 6
fond, 3
fondly, 9
footnote, 9-10, 15-16, 19
For, 3-5
for, 2-10, 12-13, 15-19, 23
forces, 3
forehand, 3
forever, 6
formam, 23
format, 12
formulas, 3
formulations, 9
fortune, 7
forward, 5
Foucault, 20
found, 3, 5, 18
Foundations, 22
foundations, 15-16
Founded, 17
Frage, 1, 10, 12-13, 15
Fragments, 23
frank, 9
Frederick, 8, 17, 19-20
Free, 10
free, 3-5, 8-9
freedom, 3-6, 8-9, 19-20
freely, 6, 8
Freistaat, 9
Freunde, 17
Friederichs, 8
Friedrich, 16-19
friend, 11
Friends, 11, 16-17
frightens, 3
From, 12
from, 2-5, 7-8, 18-20, 22-24
fruitless, 7
full, 12-13, 19, 22
fully, 6, 9
further, 3, 6, 9
Fürst, 8
Füßen, 7
G
ganze, 2
Ganzen, 7
Garve, 19
geben, 14
Gebrauche, 4
Gedanken, 10
gedankenlosen, 4
Gedike, 16
gegenwärtige, 10
gehorcht, 4
Geistes, 3
Geistliche, 8
geistlichen, 6
gekommen, 10
genannt, 14
General, 10
general, 5, 8, 11
generally, 10
germ, 9
German, 4-5, 9-10, 13, 19-20, 23-24
Germany, 11, 16, 20
Gesammelten, 12-13
Geschäfte, 4
Gesellschaft, 17
get, 7
Gewissen, 2
gifts, 3
given, 5, 9, 20
gives, 9, 15-16
go, 3
goes, 9
good, 7, 22-23
goodness, 23
gott, 14
governance, 7
government, 4, 8-9, 16, 19
graciously, 3
gradually, 8-9
graduate, 11
grammarians, 7, 13
Grammaticos, 7, 13
grammerians, 13
Grand, 11
grant, 20
grateful, 8
Great, 19-20
great, 3-4
greater, 9
Index
Gregor, 15, 18-19, 22
Grimm, 14
group, 16-17, 19
grown, 3
großen, 4
Grundsätze, 20
guarantee, 9
guardian, 8, 20
guardians, 2-3, 6
guardianship, 6
guidance, 2
H
haben, 10, 14
Habermas, 20
Hackett, 15, 21
had, 5-7, 17-20
Hague, 19
hand, 9
hard, 9
harmful, 3, 8
harmless, 4
harness, 3-4
Harvey, 11
has, 2-3, 5, 9, 22-23
Haufens, 4
haughty, 8
Hauptpunkt, 8
Have, 2, 20
have, 2-3, 5-11, 18, 20
He, 3, 5, 7, 18
he, 3-5, 7-8, 11, 15-17
head, 8
heads, 17
hear, 4
hearts, 15-17
heiszt, 14
heißt, 13
held, 4, 10
help, 10
Hence, 23
her, 18
heraus, 8
Here, 4, 22
here, 8-9, 19, 22
herein, 3
Herrn, 9-10
herrschsüchtiger, 4
heute, 10
hidden, 5
high, 16
highest, 7
hilft, 14
hillside, 9
him, 3-4, 7-8
himself, 3, 5, 7-9
hinausläuft, 6
hindering, 4
Hindernisse, 8
hinders, 4
Hindu, 11
hired, 5
his, 2-11, 17-19
Historical, 15
historical, 15-16
History, 20-21
history, 21
Holger, 11
home, 5
honorableness, 22
Horace, 2
Horatius, 12
how, 10
However, 5-6
however, 4-5, 9
human, 6-9, 23
humanity, 2, 18
humbled, 7
Humphrey, 15, 21
Händen, 10
I
ich, 10
idea, 15-16
ideals, 15-16
Ideas, 20-21
If, 4, 6-7, 9-10
if, 2-3, 5-6, 8
ignore, 10
ignoti, 22
II, 17, 19
III, 17
illuminated, 8
Immanuel, 1-2, 10-19, 21-24
Index
immature, 2, 6, 19
Immaturity, 2
immaturity, 2-3, 8, 19
immediate, 23
immediately, 23
impel, 23
impertinent, 5
important, 15-16, 18
imposed, 2, 5-6, 8
impossible, 5-6
impression, 22
impropriety, 5
improvement, 7
impulsiva, 22
In, 5, 8, 10, 12, 16-18
in, 1-20, 22-24
inability, 2
incapable, 3
incited, 3
included, 16
includes, 19
including, 2, 11
incurred, 2
Indeed, 10
indeed, 5, 19
independent, 3
Index, 2
Indianapolis, 15, 21
indicates, 18
indications, 8
individual, 3
inescapable, 9
injustice, 5
inner, 5
insight, 6-7
insights, 7-8
insistence, 19
instead, 4
institution, 6, 15-16
instrument, 19
insubordination, 5
intellectual, 19, 23
intellectualia, 23
intention, 6
intentioned, 5
interest, 4, 8, 19
interfering, 7
interpretation, 10
into, 1-2, 6-8, 10, 21
introduce, 6
introduced, 6, 19
introduction, 18
irksome, 2
Is, 4, 17-18, 20, 22
is, 1-10, 12-24
issue, 15-16, 18
Ist, 19
ist, 1, 6, 8, 10, 12-15, 23
It, 2, 4, 7, 9, 16, 18
it, 2-10, 16-18, 20, 22
its, 2, 6, 9, 19, 23
itself, 3-4, 6, 9
J
Jacob, 14
Jahrhundert, 8
James, 17, 19-22
Jan, 11
jederzeit, 14
jener, 14
jetzt, 10
Jo, 11
Johann, 16-19
Joseph, 11
Journal, 21
journal, 15-16
Juanita, 11
judgments, 8
Julius, 11
just, 4, 9
justified, 6
justly, 5
K
Kaiden, 11
kannst, 14
Kant, 1-2, 9-24
Kants, 12-13
Karl, 17
keep, 8
keine, 14
Khambholaj, 11
kind, 3, 19
Kinder, 20
kings, 20
Index
Kiran, 11
Klein, 16, 20
Know, 12
know, 2, 7, 10
knowledge, 6
known, 16
Konigsberg, 1, 9
Kontrakt, 6
Kuehn, 17
Kuhn, 11
Kurator, 20
könne, 10
künstelt, 8
L
lack, 2
land, 8
language, 10
Large, 11
large, 2, 5, 9
largest, 2
Last, 10
last, 6, 12, 19
Latin, 2, 7, 12-13
Laurie, 11
law, 6, 20
lays, 7
Laziness, 2
lead, 6
leading, 16
leap, 3
learn, 3, 10
least, 4-5, 8
leave, 7
led, 15-16
legal, 7, 19-20
legally, 19
legislation, 9
Leipzig, 14
lese, 10
less, 7-8
lesser, 9
lest, 7
let, 3, 6
letter, 10
leute, 14
levies, 5
Lewis, 11, 21
Liberalism, 20
liberty, 8
librarian, 17
Library, 17
License, 10
licht, 14
Lichtenberg, 14
lies, 2, 5-6
life, 2
lifetime, 7
like, 2-3, 10-11, 16
likley, 19
limitations, 9
Links, 2, 12-14
liter, 2, 12
literate, 4
little, 8
living, 7
located, 18
London, 21
long, 19
longer, 17
longtime, 11
look, 9
Loren, 11
lot, 7
Louise, 11
lunch, 11
Luther, 10
M
MA, 22
machine, 4, 9
made, 3
mag, 10
mails, 11
main, 8
mainly, 6
maintained, 18
maiorennes, 2, 12
majesty, 7
make, 3-4, 6-7, 23
makes, 3-5, 9
making, 5
malicious, 6
Maliha, 11
Index
man, 2-3, 7-9, 14
Manchester, 15-16
Manfred, 17
mankind, 7
manner, 6, 23
Many, 20
many, 10-11
Marguerita, 11
Marriage, 18
marriage, 15-17
Martin, 10
Mary, 15, 18-19, 22
Maschine, 4
mass, 4
masses, 3
materiam, 23
matter, 19
matters, 6-8
maturity, 2
maxime, 14
May, 16-17, 20
may, 4, 7, 9-10
me, 2, 9
mean, 14
means, 4, 6, 18, 23
meant, 18
measures, 19
mechanical, 3
mechanism, 4
media, 23
meeting, 5
mehr, 14
mein, 14
member, 4, 17
members, 4, 6, 11, 16-17
men, 3-4, 8
Mendelssohn, 9-10, 13-14, 16-19, 21
Menschen, 8
merely, 5
Merrill, 21
Michael, 21
Michigan, 11
Might, 20
might, 6, 18
military, 5
Millis, 22
mind, 2-3
Minderjährigkeit, 19
minds, 15-16
mine, 10-11
minister, 17
ministers, 17
minority, 19
Mir, 10
mir, 14
missing, 7
Misunderstanding, 20
misunderstanding, 8
misuse, 3
Mithin, 23
Mittel, 23
Mittwochsgesellschaft, 16-17, 21
mixes, 7
monarch, 7, 9
Monat, 10
Monatsschrift, 10, 12-13, 15-20
Monthly, 9
months, 20
Moral, 21
moral, 23
moralia, 23
morality, 15-17
morals, 21
more, 3, 7-9, 18
moreover, 8
Moses, 13-14, 16-18
Most, 17
most, 4, 6, 8-10, 15-16, 18-19
Motiva, 23
motiva, 23
motivating, 22
motives, 23
motivum, 23
motto, 2
movement, 3
much, 8
must, 4-6, 19, 22
My, 10-11
my, 2, 10-11
N
nach, 8
Nachkommenschaft, 7
Nachrichten, 9-10
name, 5, 8, 15-17, 23
namely, 4, 9, 23
Naragon, 15-16
narrowest, 3
narrowly, 4
native, 10
Index
Natu, 11
natura, 2, 12
natural, 3
naturally, 19
nature, 2-3, 6, 9, 12
Naturund, 20
NC, 10
nd, 22
nearly, 15-16
necessary, 4, 7, 23
need, 2
Nein, 7
nemlich, 23
nephew, 19
never, 3-4, 18
new, 4
newly, 6
news, 9
Nicht, 19
nicht, 8, 10
Nisbet, 21
No, 7, 21
no, 8-9, 17-20
noch, 10
Non, 10
non, 7, 13
nonetheless, 5
Normal, 12
not, 2-10, 13, 17-18, 22-23
note, 4-5, 9, 17-19, 22
Notes, 2, 12, 19, 23
notes, 5
nothing, 4-5, 8, 23
nothwendige, 23
notwithstanding, 5
Novermber, 17
Now, 3, 6
now, 4, 7, 9-10, 23
null, 6
nulla, 22
number, 12, 19
numerous, 9
nur, 8, 10, 14
O
oath, 6
Oberaufsicht, 3
obey, 4-5, 9
object, 22
obschon, 14
obstacles, 8
occasion, 5, 15, 18
oder, 8, 14
of, 2-12, 15-24
off, 3, 6
office, 4-5
officer, 4-5
official, 8
officials, 16
offspring, 6
often, 4
old, 4
On, 14, 16-17, 21
on, 3, 5-7, 11, 15-16, 18-21
Once, 3
One, 6, 17
one, 2-6, 8-9, 15-16, 18-19, 22
ones, 4
OnlineVersion, 14
Only, 4
only, 2-3, 5, 7-10, 15-18, 23
opened, 7
operate, 8
opinion, 5
opposed, 15-16
oppression, 4
or, 3-10, 17-20, 22-23
Order, 21
order, 4, 6-7, 17
organization, 7
Original, 12, 23
original, 6, 24
origins, 20
Other, 15
other, 7-8, 10, 16, 18, 21, 23
others, 2, 18
otherwise, 9
our, 5, 8, 10-11, 15-16
out, 3
outstanding, 17
over, 6-8, 20
overall, 16
own, 2-3, 6-9, 19
Index
P
pace, 3
page, 10, 12, 18-20, 23-24
pages, 2, 12-15, 19-23
paid, 5
papers, 18
paradoxical, 9
paragraphs, 10
parliaments, 6
part, 2, 4, 8, 18
particularly, 4, 11
passage, 18
passive, 4
passively, 4
pastor, 2
pastors, 6
Patel, 11
path, 10
pay, 2, 4-5
pdf, 17
Peace, 15
peace, 6, 8-9, 21
People, 8, 22
people, 2, 6-7, 9, 15-17
per, 23
perceived, 7
perhaps, 4, 6, 16, 18
period, 6-7
Perpetual, 15, 21
perpetuate, 6
perpetuation, 6
Perreten, 3
persistent, 7
person, 5-7, 22
personal, 4
Peter, 11
philologist, 10
philosophers, 16
Philosophical, 14, 21
philosophical, 11, 18
Philosophy, 11, 15, 19, 22
philosophy, 11
phrase, 19
phrases, 12
physician, 2
placens, 22
places, 9
placid, 3
plant, 3
play, 17
played, 16
playing, 8
please, 23
pleases, 22
Point, 19
point, 8, 15-16
points, 19
Political, 21
political, 19
Politics, 21
politics, 21
possible, 3, 6
post, 4
posterity, 7-8
postpone, 7
power, 6
powers, 19
pp, 20
Practical, 15, 19, 22
practical, 5, 18-19, 23
practically, 22
Practice, 19
practische, 23
practischen, 23
Pragmatic, 19
praised, 8
precepts, 5
precisely, 6
predecessors, 3
prejudice, 4
prejudices, 3-4
prescribe, 8
present, 6, 19
presentation, 5
presents, 5
Press, 14-15, 18-23
press, 19-20
prevent, 7
prevented, 7
previous, 15
previously, 3
priest, 5
priests, 17
prince, 8
princes, 20
principled, 18
principles, 9, 17, 19
Private, 4
private, 4-5, 19
Privatgebrauch, 4
probably, 4, 7
proceedings, 20
Index
process, 16-17
procure, 8
professional, 10
Professor, 11, 20
progeny, 7
progress, 4, 6-7
project, 11
proper, 4
proportion, 2
proposal, 6
proposed, 8
protection, 7
provide, 9, 15-16
provision, 5, 7
proxy, 20
Prussia, 1, 9, 17
Public, 10
public, 3-6, 8-9, 19
publication, 12, 19, 24
Publications, 22
publicly, 5-8
published, 15-17, 20
Pulaski, 11
punctuation, 10
punished, 5
pura, 23
pure, 7
purpose, 11
purposes, 4
purum, 23
put, 5-6
Q
quality, 4, 6, 8
Quellenverzeichnis, 14
Question, 14-17, 20-22
question, 1, 6, 9, 14-19, 21
questioner, 11
Questions, 20-22
Quintus, 12
quoad, 23
R
race, 6, 8
Rafael, 11
Rai, 11
Rapids, 11
rather, 2-5, 7-8
Rathsam, 19
rational, 3
re, 10
read, 9
reader, 10
readily, 2
real, 7
really, 3, 18
reappears, 19
reason, 4-6, 8-9, 19, 23
reasonable, 3
Reavis, 11
received, 18
recent, 11
Recently, 11
reduced, 7
referred, 16
reform, 4
refuse, 5
regard, 8-9
regardless, 8
regards, 4
Regents, 20, 22
Regierung, 9
regime, 9
rejecting, 6
Related, 2, 12
release, 8
released, 2
Religion, 18-19
religion, 5, 7-8, 15-17
Religious, 21
religious, 7-8, 17
remain, 2-3, 19
remark, 22
remarks, 6, 10, 15-16
ren, 13
rendered, 3
renounce, 7
renouncing, 8
replies, 18
reply, 19
representation, 22
Index
represented, 20, 22
represents, 17
repressive, 19
reproach, 7
reputation, 22
required, 4, 15-16
reserved, 10
resign, 5
resists, 5
resolve, 2
respect, 5, 8
responding, 19
response, 17
responsible, 4
restricted, 4, 8
restriction, 4
rests, 7
result, 5
rethink, 15-16
return, 9
revenge, 3
Review, 20-21
revise, 10
revolution, 4
Rhetoric, 21
Richard, 11
Richardson, 21
Right, 20
rights, 7, 10
Rita, 11
Robert, 21
Roheit, 8
role, 16-17, 20
Roman, 20
room, 9
Royal, 17
rudness, 8
Ruhe, 8
ruler, 4
rulers, 8
run, 4
rung, 13
Ruth, 11
S
sacred, 7
sake, 7
salvation, 7
same, 4-5, 7, 9, 17-18, 22
Sancieren, 19
Sanction, 18
sanction, 19
Sapere, 2, 12
satisfaction, 22
say, 5-6, 9
says, 4-5
scan, 12-13, 19
scandal, 5
schen, 10
Schmidt, 17, 19-22
scholar, 4-6
scholars, 8
school, 11
sciences, 8
Scientist, 20
Scott, 11
scriptural, 19
second, 23
secret, 16
secretary, 17
sect, 19
secure, 6-7
See, 19
see, 4
seek, 7
seems, 9
sees, 5, 7, 9
sein, 6
selbst, 6, 8, 14
Selbstdenkende, 3
selbstverschuldeten, 2, 19
Select, 20
Self, 2
self, 2, 8
Semler, 20
sense, 4
senses, 23
sensitive, 23
Sept, 10
September, 1, 9-10, 15-18
series, 15-16
serve, 4, 19
serves, 5
service, 5
serving, 5, 17
set, 2, 8
sex, 2
sexual, 8
shadows, 9
shaken, 15-16
Index
shall, 4
she, 18
shell, 9
shining, 9
Shobha, 11
short, 6, 22
should, 3, 5-6, 15-18
shows, 3
shut, 6
sich, 8
sides, 4
sie, 8, 10, 14, 23
Similarly, 5
Since, 18
since, 5, 7, 23
single, 3
Sinnesart, 9
slowly, 3
So, 3-4
so, 2-3, 6, 8-9, 19
Society, 16-17
society, 4, 6, 16
solemn, 6
sollen, 6
some, 3-4, 6-7, 10
someone, 5
something, 5
sonst, 10
Sp, 14
Spalding, 16, 20
speak, 6
speaker, 10
specific, 6, 16
speech, 16-17
spirit, 3, 8, 17
spiritual, 6-7
spread, 3
spreads, 8
spricht, 14
stability, 15-16
stand, 7
Start, 2
starts, 18
state, 7-9
stated, 9
Statutes, 3
steady, 3
stehen, 10
Stellvertreter, 20
sten, 10
step, 2-3
steps, 3, 15-16
Steve, 15-16
Still, 20
still, 3, 7, 23
stimuli, 23
stimulos, 23
strange, 9
struggling, 8
students, 5
stupid, 3
subject, 7
Subjects, 21
subjects, 7-9
submit, 5
subscribe, 5
succeeded, 3
successor, 19
Such, 6
such, 2, 5-6, 20
suffering, 4
suggested, 15-16
suggestions, 5
Summary, 21
superior, 5
supervisor, 3
support, 7
supra, 7, 13
supreme, 6-7
sure, 3
surpasses, 9
Symbol, 5
symbol, 5-6, 8-9
T
Table, 2
take, 3, 6-7
taken, 20
talents, 23
tax, 4
taxes, 5
teach, 5, 10
teacher, 5
teaches, 5
Ted, 15, 21
Teilbänden, 14
Teller, 16
temperament, 9
tenders, 5
term, 20
Index
terminology, 19
terms, 7, 20
tested, 5
testing, 8, 10
TEXT, 10
Text, 2, 23
text, 10, 12-13, 17, 19, 22
than, 8-10, 23
That, 2, 6-7, 22
that, 2-9, 15-20, 22-23
The, 4-5, 7, 15-23
the, 1-24
their, 2-3, 5-9, 20
them, 2-3, 5, 8-9, 20
themselves, 2-4, 6-7
Then, 7
then, 7, 23
theologians, 16, 20
theoretical, 19
Theory, 19
There, 5, 17
there, 3, 7-9, 23
Therefore, 3
therefore, 5, 10
these, 3-6, 8, 12-13, 15-16, 19-20
they, 3, 5-8, 10, 19, 23
thing, 22
things, 8
think, 2-3
thinkers, 3, 17
thinking, 4, 8-9
This, 7-8, 10, 15-18
this, 2-12, 15-19, 21, 23-24
Those, 19
those, 3, 6-8, 12, 20
though, 6
thought, 9-10, 16
thoughts, 5, 9
threatens, 3
throne, 7
through, 5-6, 18, 22
throwing, 3
thrown, 3
throws, 3
Thus, 2-3, 23
thus, 4-5, 7
time, 4, 7, 9
times, 3
timid, 3
title, 12
To, 9, 11-12, 19, 22
to, 2-12, 14-23
today, 9
tolerance, 8
too, 15-16
took, 3
tools, 3
topic, 18
touchstone, 6
toward, 7
trampled, 7
trans, 19
transition, 9
Translated, 15
translated, 2, 7, 12-13, 20-21
Translation, 1, 10, 21-22
translation, 10-11, 18, 22
translations, 10, 20
Translator, 4-5, 9-10
translator, 10
treat, 9
treaties, 6
treatise, 19
Treatises, 21
trench, 3
tried, 6
true, 4
truth, 5, 15-16, 18, 23
try, 2-3
tutelage, 2
Twentieth, 20, 22
two, 16
tying, 15-16
tyrannical, 4
tyrants, 7
U
Ueber, 13
ultimate, 3
um, 8
unalterable, 6
unanimity, 4, 10
unauthorized, 6-7
uncertain, 3
und, 8, 14
Under, 8
under, 3, 7
underfoot, 7
understand, 4, 10
understanding, 2-3, 7, 23
Index
understands, 2
undertake, 2, 5
unexpected, 9
Ungereimtheit, 6
Ungereimtheiten, 6
united, 7
unites, 7
uniting, 6
unity, 8
universal, 23
University, 11, 14-16, 18-23
unlimited, 6, 10
unmündig, 6
unmündigen, 20
Unmündigkeit, 2-3, 19
unterscheiden, 23
unthinking, 4
until, 6
unts, 17
unworthy, 8
unwrapped, 9
up, 2
upon, 3, 7, 19
Ursachen, 2
us, 15-16
use, 2-7, 9, 19-20, 23
used, 12, 20
uses, 5, 9
using, 7
usually, 3
utility, 5
V
Vandana, 11
Various, 21
various, 16
venerable, 6, 8
venerate, 9
Venturi, 20
Verden, 11
verdient, 14
verehren, 9
Verewigung, 6
Vernunft, 4, 23
Versandes, 2
verschlieszen, 14
verschwören, 6
version, 10
Verstandes, 3
Versuche, 10
very, 3-5, 7, 15-16, 19
via, 2, 12
viel, 14
View, 19
views, 19
VII, 19
VIII, 10, 12
violate, 7
violence, 5
violent, 7
virtually, 19
virtue, 12
vocation, 3
voices, 6
void, 6
Volks, 6
Volkswillen, 7
Volume, 12, 21-22
volume, 12
volumes, 13
vom, 10, 14
von, 8, 10, 14, 16-17
Vormund, 20
Vormüdern, 20
Vormünder, 3, 6
vorsätzlich, 14
vorurtheil, 14
vorurtheilen, 14
vorzugsweise, 14
Völckerrechts, 20
W
walk, 3, 11
walking, 3
wankend, 17
want, 4, 9
wanted, 7
Warheit, 23
Was, 1, 12-13, 15, 20
was, 5, 8, 13-19, 23
waste, 4
way, 7-8
ways, 4
we, 7-9, 15-16
Index
Wednesday, 16-17
weekly, 9
weil, 14
weiterzuschreiten, 6
welche, 14
well, 3-5, 7, 9-10, 16-17, 19
wenn, 8, 14
went, 11
werden, 14
were, 3, 15-20
Werke, 12-13
What, 1, 14-22
what, 4-5, 7, 9, 14, 19, 23
When, 7
when, 2-3, 5, 7, 9
where, 7-8, 11
whereas, 18
wherein, 9
Whether, 6
which, 2-10, 15-16, 18-19, 22-23
while, 8
White, 11, 21
who, 2-5, 7-10, 12, 17-20
Whoever, 3
whole, 4, 7
whom, 9
whose, 5-6, 17
Why, 20
why, 2
wieder, 6
wiefern, 10
wife, 11
Wilhelm, 14
will, 2-3, 5, 7, 23
William, 17, 21
Williams, 11
Winter, 21
wird, 10
wished, 22
with, 5-9, 11, 18-19, 21
withheld, 19
within, 7
without, 2-4, 7
Wolff, 20
women, 19
Word, 2
word, 4-5, 9-10
worin, 10
work, 2-3, 7-9
works, 23
world, 4-5, 8-9
worship, 9
worth, 3
would, 3, 5-7, 9-11, 19
write, 10
writes, 15-17
writing, 6
Writings, 14, 21
writings, 5-7, 13, 19
written, 10, 15-16, 19
wrote, 10, 15-18
wöchentliche, 9
wöchentlichen, 10
Wörterbuch, 14
Wülbern, 11
wünscht, 14
würde, 10
X
xii, 20
Y
year, 17
years, 12-13, 19
yes, 3
yet, 9, 18
yoke, 3
you, 3-4, 9
Young, 11
your, 2
YouTube, 21
Z
Zaborowski, 11
Zedlitz, 17
Zeitalter, 6, 8
Zoe, 11
Zu, 19
zu, 8, 10, 14, 23