Kant: A Biography

Prologue 21 early philosophical work developed as a series of responses to the philo¬ sophical Preisaufgaben set by the Berlin a ...

22 Kant: A Biography focus more on the younger philosopher, who first conceived the project of a Critique of Pure Reason. I hope ...

Prologue 23 Of course, there is no guarantee that we will learn important and worth¬ while lessons from the study of any particu ...

Childhood and Early Youth (1724-1740) Early Childhood (1724-1731): "The Best Education from the Moral Point of View" T HE YEAR 1 ...

Childhood and Early Youth 25 came out, as did Bernard de Fontenelle's De l'Origine des fables (The Ori¬ gin of Myths) intended t ...

26 Kant: A Biography University of Königsberg of the most outspoken advocate of Wolffian philosophy. Christian Gabriel Fischer ( ...

Childhood and Early Youth 27 settle disputes among themselves.^7 The lives of members were ruled by old customs, which did not a ...

28 Kant: A Biography produced harnesses for horses, carriages, and sleds as well as other imple¬ ments having to do with transpo ...

Childhood and Early Youth 29 the situation worsened as he grew older. On March 1, 1729, his grand¬ father died. It appears that, ...

Kant: A Biography It is easy to see how these two trades came into conflict. They were com¬ peting for essentially the same cust ...

Childhood and Early Youth 31 have been unusual for small tradesmen of the period, and it would be wrong to say that the Kants we ...

32 Kant: A Biography had been most important for the first formation of his character, as well as for having laid the foundation ...

Childhood and Early Youth 33 best way to convince her of the contrary would be to take a spoonful herself. She did, then realize ...

34 Kant: A Biography time Kant was a famous philosopher, some people tried to argue that the Kant family was destitute, but that ...

Childhood and Early Youth 35 gone a so-called Bußkampf ov struggle of repentance that led to a conver¬ sion (Bekehrung) and awak ...

36 Kant: A Biography fields, and thus cut into their profits. The ensuing battle between the cen¬ tralist forces in Berlin and t ...

Childhood and Early Youth 37 a calling" (unberuffene Winckelprediger) in Königsberg. They were accused of founding illegitimate ...

Kant: A Biography Cholera" or a hidden choleric streak. Furthermore, though he might have been willing to compromise in theology ...

Childhood and Early Youth 39 to Pietism. In pursuing the program of Frederick William I against the wishes of the more orthodox ...

40 Kant: A Biography to his own mother's demands during his earliest years. In a similar vein, Rink quoted Kant as having said o ...