Attenuated Angela
I have a tickle in my throat and have resolved to a bit of attenuation. They create an equilibrium of sorts. I honestly feel fairly even at the moment. Oh, ope! It's now gone. Odd once more. But Immanuel Kant says, deliciously, and quite unrelatedly: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without the gudance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!" Do it, newly attenuated Angela! Use your own understanding! In all matters. Not in a religiously debilitating way, though. Just form your own understanding at least.
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I adore Kant. None of my ethics students seem to share my love of that blessed dead Prussian. Where I see clarity, my students only see convolution. It gladdens the rational bit of my soul to see one so vernal brandishing Kant, for more people ought to. Sapere aude immer! (okay so that's a convergence of Latin and German, but Kant's own name is a convergence of Hebrew and German so I doubt he'd mind)
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