Kant: A Biography

Prologue I MMANUEL KANT died on February 12,1804, at 11:00 A.M., less than two months before his eightieth birthday. Though he w ...

Kant: A Biography or "de-Kanted."^4 Especially during his last two years, no signs of his once- great mind could be observed. Hi ...

Prologue 3 eternal life and a future state, in his personal life he had been cold to such ideas. Scheffner had often heard Kant ...

Kant: A Biography Relatively few would have disputed the fact that Kant really possessed the virtues of "loyalty, benevolence, r ...

Prologue 5 having intentionally committed an injustice." Metzger concluded, "this is the creed of all egoists."^15 While not wan ...

Kant: A Biography Hasse's publication was clumsy and wrong-headed. Though he praised Kant's greatness and intended to give examp ...

Prologue 7 Kant's life and character, but it is neither as reliable nor as extensive as we might wish. The three people who had ...

Kant: A Biography Furthermore, each of them had prejudices and views that could only stand in the way of an objective account of ...

Prologue 9 Unfortunately, perhaps, Pörschke did not publish a biography either. Later, other friends in Königsberg did publish s ...

io Kant: A Biography the necessary qualifications for a Kant biographer. He argued that a biog¬ rapher must be not only someone ...

Prologue 11 Borowski included, he only allowed himself "to delete and change some things." What Kant did is therefore better des ...

12 Kant: A Biography In any case, it is all too clear what bothered Borowski. He could not ap¬ prove of Kant's religion. Rejecti ...

Prologue 13 account against a wider variety of other sources than we can Borowski's, he is also less important. Kant was already ...

Kant: A Biography him say so, and we can discount it.^42 When Jachmann tries to downplay Kant's enthusiasm for the French Revolu ...

Prologue 15 of unintentional, unconscious memoires." Nietzsche should have made an exception for Kant.^50 Since he had no life, ...

i6 Kant: A Biography today. Some of the perceived shortcomings might even be considered virtues by later generations, and some o ...

Prologue 17 II During the two hundred years since Kant's death, not many full biogra¬ phical treatments of Kant have been writte ...

i8 Kant: A Biography is sometimes claimed. His Kant is to a large extent the reflection of his own views on culture and politics ...

Prologue 19 III Biographies of philosophers have been relatively scarce in the recent past.^64 One of the most important reasons ...

20 Kant: A Biography a deadly combination. Furthermore, Kant himself followed in his works the motto "de nobis ipsis silemus" (" ...