La Ilustración, va a decir de forma famosa
Kant, supone la salida del hombre de su "autoculpable" minoría de edad. Y su lema es el complemento perfecto de la humildad
del Sócrates del
"Sólo sé que no sé nada": el coraje del ignorante se rebela contra la ignorancia, las "cadenas" a las que se refería
Platón. Porque de nada sirve el "Pienso luego existo" de
Descartes si inmediatamente -por pereza, cobardía o simple estupidez- no nos ponemos a pensar: Sapere aude!
Esquema del contexto histórico y cultural realizado por
Raquel Lama.
PD. Sobre el contrato social, hemos mencionado la teoría:
Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Chapter 13: The natural condition of mankind as concerning their happiness and misery"In such conditions there is
no place for hard work, because there is
no assurance that it will yield results; and consequently no cultivation of the earth, no navigation or use of materials that can be imported by sea, no construction of large buildings,
no machines for moving things that require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no practical skills,
no literature or scholarship,
no society; and—worst of all—continual
fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man
solitary,
poor,
nasty,
brutish, and
short."
y la práctica
Thomas Jefferson,
United States Declaration of Independence, 1776:
"We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all
men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
PD.
Woody Allen se burla de Hobbes al inicio de
Annie Hall 
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