L'educació del gènere humà

When Lessing published The Education of the Gender in 1780, it took another four years for Kant to adopt the famous motto Sapere aude, which summed up the meaning of the Enlightenment. The value he attached to this current focused on the use of reason itself as the main tool of knowledge, as opposed to the preeminence in Europe, for many centuries, of the religious mentality. The power which ecclesiastical institutions had attained made any reference to the subject susceptible of being severely censured or punished, and for this reason this major work of enlightened thought which vindicates reason must be read very carefully -and often between the lines- above all and raises the need for a divinity disregarding revelation and the writings of religious hermeneutics.