"Kant famously defines enlightenment as having the courage to ""think for yourself”, but continuous with the motto: “Think as much as you please, but obey!” How are we to understand this decree, to think, but obey? Kant, in fact, follows here the model of Socrates, who taught the youth to think for themselves, but still insisted on obedience — as did Spinoza, in the Theological Political Treatise. By reading these thinkers along with more current ones — Arendt, Foucault, Korsgaard, Raz — we will explore the relation between thinking and obedience, autonomy and authority, conscientious objection, revolution, and more. "