Sapere aude (from the Latin. “Be bold to know”) is a Latin maxim contained in the “Messages” of Horace ( Epistulae I 2 40 ). Immanuel Kant translated it as: “Have the courage to use your own mind” ( German: Habe Mut, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen! ).
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- In Kant’s famous quotation from his reply article “What is Enlightenment ?” (1784) - “ Sapere aude! - have the courage to use your own mind! “This is, therefore, the motto of the Enlightenment, ” he writes.
- In the 20th century, Michel Foucault in his essay "What is Enlightenment?" (1984) takes the wording of Kant "Have the courage to know", trying to find a place for human individuality in poststructuralist philosophy and reconcile with the problematic heritage of the Enlightenment. Moreover, in the essay “Baroque episteme : word and thing” (2013), Jean-Claude Wuymen suggested that the Sapere aude Latin phrase should be the motto of the baroque episteme [1] .
- The maxim is the motto of a number of universities in the world - the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) [2] , the National University of Pharmacy , Kherson State University and the University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria [3] . In addition, it was the motto of William Winnie Westcott, one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1887–1923) [4] .
- The name “Sapere aude!” Is a student scientific journal of the law faculty of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov.
Notes
- ↑ Jean-Claude Vuillemin. Epistémè baroque: le mot et la chose, Paris, Hermann, coll. "Savoir Lettres," 2013 ..
- ↑ MIPT in numbers, ratings - MIPT . mipt.ru. The date of circulation is November 10, 2017.
- ↑ University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Inaccessible link) . www-en.fh-ooe.at. The date of circulation is October 22, 2015. Archived October 23, 2015.
- ↑ William Wynn Westcott .