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Which represents the author’s purpose in saying, “Dare to know! (Sapere aude) ”? to define the nature of the Enlightenment era to suggest the role of defiance in starting a revolution to encourage individuals to seek enlightenment to explain why individuals should seek enlightenment

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to encourage individuals to seek enlightenment

The author’s purpose in saying, “Dare to know! (Sapere aude), was to encourage individuals to seek enlightenment. The phrase was used by Kant in 1784, and it was taken from a Latin book by the Roman poet Horace " First Book of Letters" in 20 BCE.
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