Kant: A Biography

Student and Private Teacher 81 revelation at all, or the Christian revelation is the only one. Since the first disjunct is false ...

82 Kant: A Biography adhere to doctrines of the true faith.^98 Starting from Wolff and Leibniz, he advocated a point of view tha ...

Student and Private Teacher 83 thinkers, who have no proper concept of God and his actions through his creation," but he could h ...

84 Kant: A Biography that could be computed. Though of great interest to the physicist, they did not have to be feared as bad om ...

Student and Private Teacher 85 Wolff would have been critical and largely negative, but he was openly dis¬ cussed. Pietism in Kö ...

86 Kant: A Biography himself was not very mechanically inclined - he later often asked his stu¬ dents to construct physically im ...

Student and Private Teacher 87 he honors and respects "the great masters of our knowledge" whom he is going to attack in this wo ...

Kant: A Biography of the philosophical faculty - and perhaps especially by Knutzen. Or was there perhaps — at least in his eyes ...

Student and Private Teacher 89 be misleading: Kant was not necessarily a protege of Knutzen. The great Knutzen, predictor of the ...

90 Kant: A Biography care whether this principle was called "form," "entelechy," or "force," he claimed that it was central for ...

Student and Private Teacher 91 possess, he tries to show that they may therefore contain an internal prin¬ ciple that causes the ...

92 Kant: A Biography to modify Leibniz's view, these modifications were not meant to be of a fundamental nature. In fact, Kant c ...

Student and Private Teacher 93 It has often been suggested that Kant had Knutzen in mind here. Knutzen did indeed maintain that ...

94 Kant: A Biography anyone else in the Pietistic faction would have been open-minded enough to overlook this departure from the ...

Student and Private Teacher 95 the house, the tools, and the equipment of his father, and to see to it that his brothers and sis ...

Q6 Kant: A Biography of means he became a private teacher (Hofmeister), and took up employment first with the reformed preacher ...

Student and Private Teacher 97 to be godfather during this period. Though the pastor's family spoke Ger¬ man, Kant also had to s ...

98 Kant: A Biography him - and he still thinks with great satisfaction back to this period."^166 Kant never gave up his academic ...

Student and Private Teacher 99 if only because it would immediately be recognized as belonging to the tradition of "Lucretius or ...

The Elegant Magister (1755-1764) First Years (1755—1758): "An Excellent Brain" O N APRIL 17, 1755, Kant handed in his dissertati ...