Ak 7 , p. 57.
no. See, however, Ak 8, p. 23. When Kant finds that man is the kind of animal that
"needs a master that breaks his will," that this master must be a human being,
and that therefore perfection on Earth is impossible, we find an echo of this view.
in. Gerhard Ritter, Frederick the Great, tr. Peter Paret (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1974), p. 23.
Ak 8, p. 40.
Kant, Practical Philosophy, p. 17 (Ak 8, p. 36).
Johann George Scheffner, Mein Leben, wie ich es selbst beschrieben (Leipzig: J. G.
Neubert, 1816; 2nd ed. 1823).
This is not meant to give an account of the constitutional history of Prussia and
Konigsberg's role in it. I just mark some of the important milestones in the his¬
tory of the city. The king was not "king of Prussia," for instance, but merely "king
in Prussia."
Fritz Gause, "Königsberg als Hafen- und Handelsstadt," in Studien zur Geschichte
des Preussenlandes, ed. Ernst Bahr (Marburg: N. G. Elwert Verlag, 1963), pp. 342-
352, p- 343-
These numbers exclude the military (another 7,000 or 8,000 people).
Stavenhagen, Kant und Königsberg, p. 9.
Gause, Königsberg, II, p. 53; see also Robert Ergang, The Potsdam Führer: Fred¬
erick William I, Father of Prussian Militarism (New York: Octagon Books, 1972,
reprint of Columbia University Press, 1941), pp. n8f.
See Ergang, The Potsdam Führer, p. 73.
Ergang, The Potsdam Führer, p. 74.
Ergang, The Potsdam Führer, p. 69.
SeeAk 10, pp. 149, 190; pp. n, 78.
Ak7 (Anthropology),]). I2on.
See Vorländer, Immanuel Kant, I, 6, and especially Hamilton Beck, "Moravians
in Königsberg," in Joseph Kohnen (ed.), Königsberg. Beiträge zu einem besonderen
Kapitel der deutschen Geistesgeschichte (Frankfurt [Main]: Peter Lang, 1994),
PP- 335-344, 347-37°-
Springer (alias G. Karl), Kant und Alt-Königsberg, p. 9. Strictly speaking, it was
not the house that Kant was born in, but the house that had replaced it. In 1740
the house had been torn down.
Beck, "Moravians in Königsberg," p. 348.
Since all the land masses in the city are connected by seven bridges, the question
arises whether is it possible for a person to take a walk around town, starting
and ending at the same location, and crossing each of the seven bridges exactly
once. Euler proved this to be impossible.
Hinrichs, Preußentum und Pietismus, p. 293; Riedesel, Pietismus und Orthodoxie
in Ostpreußen, p. 138. See also Walther Hubatsch, Geschichte der evangelischen
Kirche in Ostpreussen, 3 vols. (Göttingen: Vandenhoek and Rupprecht, 1968), I,
pp. 2i8f.
