Belief vs. Enlightenment

This week, I was required to read “What is Enlightenment”, by Immanuel Kant; “Christianity or Europe” and “Faith and Love, or King and Queen”, by Novalis; a selection from A General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss; and a selection of Success through Failure, by Henry Petroski (you can find these readings here: http://didascalos.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/readings-week-1-set-2/). The readings were quite interesting. In my study, I noticed a contrast between four of the five selections, those being the selections from Kant, Novalis, and Mauss. I would say that the contrast is between Kant’s “maturity”, and “belief”, exhibited in Novalis’s writings and the belief in magic described by Mauss.