What is Enlightenment?

Kant's life Immanuel Kant was born on April 22, 1724 in Königsberg on the Baltic Sea. He died there on February 12, 1804. Kant was the son of a saddler. He became an important German thinker. He taught logic and metaphysics at the university in Königsberg for a long time. His book "Critique of Pure Reason" is very important. It processed the entire old philosophy and founded his Enlightenment on it. He was also known as the "crusher of everything". Kant stayed in Königsberg all his life. He took the same walk every day, right on time. People said: "You can set your watch by Kant." He only wanted to concentrate on his work. He was never married. Kant allegedly said: "It's like practicing the violin. It takes too much time." He only wanted to practise thinking. Kant was also often funny. He liked to invite merchants, sailors, soldiers and others for lunch. They told him about the world. The battles for freedom such as the peace between his country Prussia and France, the French and American Revolutions made a great impression on him. Everyone loved him. The whole town and many others came to his funeral. Kant's philosophy Kant's work is divided into two parts: Before and after his book "Critique of Pure Reason". Before that, Kant thought similarly to other thinkers. He called this period "dogmatic slumber". In 1770, his thinking changed. He only worked on a new theory. In his "quiet time", Kant spent eleven years writing the book "Critique of Pure Reason". By "critique" he means a precise examination. It deals with the prerequisites for cognition. The "Critique of Pure Reason" made him famous. The second "Critique" deals with action. The third "Critique" is about judgment. Kant also wrote about astronomy, religion, law and history. Kant changed the way we think about knowledge and life. His ideas are still valid today. For Kant, philosophy has only four questions: What can I know? What should I do? What can I hope for? What is human?

Dr. Patrick Krause (born 1965) is a journalist, author, and publisher. "Writes like Charlie Parker plays," said Dr. Wolfgang Stock from Econ Verlag. During his philosophy studies, he worked as a copywriter. After his Ph.D. in 1998, he founded his own publishing company for customer magazines, worked as a journalist, ghostwriter, and creative director, and wrote travel guides and children's books. From 2010, Krause was a culture editor and from 2015, editor-in-chief of the lifestyle travel magazine QVEST. Simultaneously, he completed several therapy and coaching training courses. His openness and diverse interests led Patrick Krause around the world and to well-known interview partners. Often, pure curiosity turns into passion, an idea, and a text. Krause plays drums in workshops with professional musicians and hopes for numerous gigs in his old age.

Andreas Stobbe was born in 1968. He is a digital entrepreneur and designer. In the 1990s, he founded his own company during his studies. Since 1996, he has been working in the digital field. In the same year, he founded the company reality bytes. This company became one of the top 50 internet companies in Germany. From 2016, he sold parts of his company to the TWT Digital Agency Group. This group belongs to the Greven Group and the Irene and Sigurd Greven Foundation. Until 2024, he merged his company with other companies, forming TWT Growth, which now has more than 120 employees. Andreas Stobbe has a son with autism. He is committed to improving learning opportunities for people with disabilities, especially in making world literature accessible to them.