Aufklarung Oder Unmundigkeit: Wie Weit Strahlt Das Licht Der Vernunft?

English summary: As a contribution to the current discussion of values, this book proves the serious relevance of values and ideas of the Enlightenment for the present. Primarly, the historic chapter describes which values and ideas of the period of Enlightenment in Europe and Northern America in the 18th century were developed and fixed in legal terms. The following legal chapter presents that and how these values are transformed by legal documents on the international, European and national Levels into legal orders and prohibitions today. The philosophical chapter proves that These values are also today founded in a philosophical manner in the sphere of ideas. Finally, the critical chapter discusses actual anti-enlightenment powers and behaviours, for example medieval tendencies in basic physics as well as the religious revival and treatment of the actual problems with Islam and Islamism. German description: Das Werk belegt umfassend und detailreich die nach wie vor wesentliche Bedeutung der Werte und Ideale der Aufklarung fur die heutige Zeit.