"Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist AufklÀrung?), often referred to simply as "What Is Enlightenment?" (Was ist AufklÀrung?), is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinische Monatsschrift (Berlin Monthly), edited by Friedrich Gedike and...