Kant: A Biography

Childhood and Early Youth 41 of religious discipline, but a warm, understanding, and supportive environ¬ ment that built confide ...

42 Kant: A Biography We also have duties toward others, and the child should learn early Reverence (Ehrfurcht) and respect for o ...

Childhood and Early Youth 43 guild in the early eighteenth century can easily be overestimated, but the social standing of its m ...

44 Kant: A Biography in tune with the values of the members of the guild. Though the Pietists were also known as "Mucker" or "cr ...

Childhood and Early Youth 45 this.^69 In any case, he would soon get to know Pietism from a different perspective. School Years ...

46 Kant: A Biography position for an unusually long period.^74 Kant learned from Boehm the basics of "reading, writing, and arit ...

Childhood and Early Youth 47 different grades solely in accordance with their ability and knowledge. So someone might attend the ...

48 Kant: A Biography the student for the further study of theology at the university. The teachers of the school were well suite ...

Childhood and Early Youth 49 philosophy, while Emanuel was most interested in the classics.^86 Emanuel, David, and Johannes Cund ...

50 Kant: A Biography to provide them with the skills necessary for reading any French author tolerably well. We may therefore as ...

Childhood and Early Youth 51 set aside entirely for repetition; every class began with the repetition of material covered in pre ...

52 Kant: A Biography speaks of the "leaden atmosphere of punishment" that pervaded the en¬ tire place.^101 Kant himself attested ...

Childhood and Early Youth 53 above all, it is necessary to break the natural willfulness of the child. While the school¬ master ...

54 Kant: A Biography and 1740. If Pietism had any influence on Kant at all, then it was a negative one. It may have been precise ...

Childhood and Early Youth 55 not know whether Kant explicitly formulated this thought for himself dur¬ ing his school years, but ...

56 Kant: A Biography Both views are misleading. Königsberg had a somewhat "insular" character, being situated in the northeaster ...

Childhood and Early Youth 57 and preachers. The fines he imposed were sometimes excessive, sometimes strange. Any parson who pre ...

58 Kant: A Biography trading port and the capital of Prussia. It still housed several important institutions of the Prussian sta ...

Childhood and Early Youth 59 new fires were still breaking out.^127 Yet Königsberg itself was by all ac¬ counts beautiful, looki ...

6o Kant: A Biography the only time he was ever in Königsberg, he left little doubt about his sen¬ timents. When a student told h ...