Kant: A Biography

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1777 Another essay on the Dessau Philanthropinum.
Tetens, Essays.
Lambert dies.

1778 Declines an offer to become professor in Halle.
Voltaire and Rousseau die.
Lessing, On the Education of the Human Race.

1779-80 Winter semester: Kant serves as dean.

1780 Becomes permanent member of the university senate (until 1804).

1781 May: Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft).

1782 Announcement of the publication of Lambert's Correspondence.
"Information for Medical Doctors" (Nachrichten an Arzte).

1782-83 Winter semester: Kant serves as dean.
r7&3 Prolegomena (Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissen¬
schaft wird auftreten können).
Review of Schulze's Attempt at a Guide toward a Moral Doctrine for All Man¬
kind Independent of Differences of Religion.
December: Kant buys his own house.
Mendelssohn, Jerusalem.

1784 November: "Idea for a Universal History of Mankind" (Idee zu einer allge¬
meinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht) in Berlinische Monatsschrift.
December: "Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment?'" (Beantwor¬
tung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?).
Diderot dies.

'785 January and November: Review of Herder's Ideas in Allgemeine Literatur-
Zeitung (Jena).
March: "Concerning the Volcanoes on the Moon" (Über die Vulkane im
Monde) in Berlinische Monatsschrift.
April: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Grundlegung zur Metaphysik
der Sitten).
May: "On the Wrongful Publication of Books" (Von der Unrechtmäßigkeit
des Bückernachdrucks) in Berlinische Monats-schrift.
November: "On the Definition of the Concept of a Human Race" (Über die
Bestinmung des Begriffs einer Menschenrasse) in Berlinische Monatsschrift.
Mendelssohn, Morning Hours.


1785-86 Winter semester: Kant serves as dean.
Mendelssohn-Jacobi dispute (also knows as the pantheism dispute).

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