Read the excerpt from Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" and answer the question. ...a large degree of civic freedom appears to be of advantage to the intellectual freedom of the people, yet at
the same time it establishes insurmountable barriers. A lesser degree of civic freedom, however, creates
room to let that free spirit expand to the limits of its capacity. Nature, then, has carefully cultivated the seed
within the hard core--namely the urge for and the vocation of free thought. And this free thought gradually
reacts back on the modes of thought of the people, and men become more and more capable of acting in
freedom. At last free thought acts even on the fundamentals of government and the state finds it agreeable to
treat man, who is now more than a machine, in accord with his dignity.
Kant concludes his essay with this excerpt, in which he purports that civic freedom and intellectual freedom
(enlightenment) are .
A. Impossible
B. paradoxical
C. proportionate
D. Intangible