What is Enlightenment?

1. What does Kant mean by "freedom"?
Immanuel Kant's meaning of freedom is becoming of age or maturing.

2. Why does Kant feel that "freedom" is so central to the Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant believes "freedom" is an important key to the Enlightenment period because the "freedom" is the one thing or idea that will allow one open up doors in a one's mind and it can also help people break away from the "prison of immaturity".

3. How do people become Enlightened and what is the appropriate environment to accomplish this?
People can become Enlightened in a way as simple as just being mature. They can achieve this by taking the "dangerous and difficult path" or journey to becoming one of maturity.

4. How does Kant relate Enlightenment and politics?
Imannuel Kant defines the relationship between the Enlightenment and politics, from his vantage point, as that if a country's ruler is childish or immature, then the ruler's country could be one of immaturity. So the that is basically saying that the maturity level or the conditions of the country is in depends on the behavior of its ruler.