# Critique, Enlightenment, and Public Reason

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Critique disciplines reason by requiring it to examine its own claims instead of appealing blindly to authority. Kant connects enlightenment with the public use of reason, while his political writings pursue lawful freedom and international peace within assumptions that also warrant historical criticism.

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