This is a presentation of a google-point slide presentation that was made for the discussion of Kant's essay, "What is Enlightenment?" and Foucault's essay of the same name and inspired by Kant. The emphasis is placed on the first paragraph of Kant's essay, specifically the motto of the Enlightenment he articulates therein: "Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own reasoning." With this motto we find a challenge, the challenge of exercising our moral authority, our responsibility to Stop and Think! As educators, it is important (necessary) but not sufficient to make what Foucault calls an 'inventory' of the limits placed upon our profession by managerialism. Indeed, taking up the 'critical attitude' entails being autonomous, which I call, in the spirit of Foucault, being experimental in one's work. The critical attitude of experimentalism is synonymous with originary thinking, which is my ongoing philosophical project
February 13, 2014 was the 10th anniversary of the original experiment that produced 363 phenomenological mediations, published as 'Being and Learning' (Brill: 2012). Each day between Feb 2014-15, I returned to the original meditations, and my commentary is documented here. And then, again, on February 15, 2024, on the 20th anniversary of the first days of the original experiment, I revisit and comment on a daily basis, once again.
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