Kant: A Biography

The Elegant Magister 141 must have all the characteristics commonly ascribed to God. Therefore, God necessarily exists. This a p ...

142 Kant: A Biography So Kant had already been accused of being an idealist in 1763, almost twenty years earlier than is general ...

The Elegant Magister 143 pology as long as he lectured on this subject does not make them any less dated. They must be understoo ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences (1764-1769) Kant at Forty: "When Does One Acquire One's Character?" O N APRIL 22, 1764, Kant ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences 145 also a psychology of character. Indeed, it is this character that is the focus of Kant's ...

146 Kant: A Biography from acting impulsively, from being swept away by emotions and thus act¬ ing foolishly. Though we know thi ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences 147 event in a human life. Maxims, at least "maxims" in the sense of the an¬ thropology lect ...

148 Kant: A Biography To have character is not necessarily to have a morally good character. There are good characters and there ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences 149 which always formed the basis [of his actions] and to which one always had to return. Th ...

150 Kant: A Biography have been very different from the way in which we all experience it. There was denial, there were feelings ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences 151 man of character over the oscillations of feelings and passions, his realiza¬ tion that ...

152 Kant: A Biography subdivides into three parts from those three members, Hepatick, splenetick, meseraick."^24 Burton's book w ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences 153 and made it more difficult for his heart to work. He suffered from a mild form of scolio ...

154 Kant: A Biography life? Some have argued that, but it seems to beg the question.^29 Perhaps it is not altogether false to sa ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences 155 [Kant] is now constantly in England, because Rousseau and Hume are there, of whom his fr ...

156 Kant: A Biography time, but little by little he learned to write philosophy like a bank draft, and he kept hours for writing ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences 157 others within their circle of acquaintance, such as the Englishman Barcklay, the Scottis ...

158 Kant: A Biography understood that the maxim of putting aside regularly smaller amounts of money has more significant rewards ...

A Palingenesis and Its Consequences 159 a letter authorizing it to fill the post of full professor of poetry, which had been vac ...

i6o Kant: A Biography bookstore, which had the atmosphere of a coffeehouse. Kanter not only sold books, which could be inspected ...