Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?

Edition

Wikisource transcription (status “fertig”) of the first printing, Berlinische Monatsschrift, vol. 4, twelfth issue (December 1784), pp. 481-494, checked line by line against the page scans of the Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld (ds.ub.uni-bielefeld.de, record 2239816_004, images 513 to 526). The spelling and punctuation of 1784 are kept (Muth, Theil, Zwekke, räsonnirt, Despotism). Normalizations: the Fraktur letters are set in roman type (long s as s); words divided at line and page ends joined; running heads, page numbers, signatures and catchwords left out. Type: the letter-spaced words of the print are letter-spaced, the words in its heavier type are bold, and the Latin words, set in roman type within the Fraktur, are italic. The masthead of the issue (Berlinische Monatsschrift. 1784. Zwölftes Stük. December.) is summed up in the kicker and the footer, and the number of the article in the issue (1.) is left out; the title and the reference under it, (S. Decemb. 1783. S. 516.), are in the header. Kant’s footnote, called with *) in the print, is numbered. Two misprints are corrected as in the Wikisource transcription, which records them: “der der Welt” (p. 492) and “zuükgehalten” (p. 494). The two dashes are en dashes, as in the transcription (the print has long rules). The notes of Wikisource and its bracketed expansions of abbreviations (S.[iehe], Decemb.[er], I.[mmanuel], Septemb.[er], Sept.[ember], dess.[elben]) are not in the print and are left out.

Rights

Immanuel Kant died on 12 February 1804 (Wikidata Q9312) and the essay was published in December 1784: it is in the public domain in France (author died before 1 January 1956) and in the United States (published before 1931). The Wikisource transcription copies the print and adds nothing of its own to the poster; its notes are left out.