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Perhaps the most famous eighteenth-century attempt a defining the concept "enlightenment" was sparked by an article by Johann Friedrich Zöllner in the December 1783 issue of the Berlinische Monatsschrift, an influential Berlin journal with links to the Wednesday Society, a group of self-described "Friends of Enlightenment." In a footnote to an article on the advisability of clergy participating in wedding ceremonies, Zöllner asked Quote footnote

The footnote touched of an extended discussion of the question. In a September 1784 article in the ''Berlinische Monatsschrift' that originated as a lecture to the Wednesday Society, 'Moses Mendelssohn defined to Enlightenment Immanuel Kant also wrote a response, referring to Enlightenment as "man's release from his self-incurred tutelage", tutelage being "man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another".[171] This intellectual model of interpretation has been adopted by many historians since the 18th century, and is perhaps the most commonly used interpretation today.