442 Notes to Pages 73-77
... must in his Lectionibus publicis ... finish each semester one Science publique,
for example logica in one and Metaphysica in the other, and so year after year, just
like jus naturalae in one, moral philosophy in the other year so that the Studiosi,
especially those who are poor, can hear all the parts of philosophy free at the uni¬
versity and have the chance to hear in at least three semesters all the fundamental
subjects of philosophy."- Vorländer, Immanuel Kant, I, p. 50.
- Pisanski, Entwurf einer preussischen Literärgeschichte, p. 522. According to Pisanski,
Gregorovius was "one of the last" who taught and defended Aristotle. He was in¬
terested mainly in ethics; one of his books was Observationes Aristotelicae (Königs¬
berg, 1730). - Vorländer found that Gregorovius, as an "old" Aristotelian, was irrelevant to Kant,
and thus dismissed him all too quickly. See Vorländer, Immanuel Kant, I, p. 50. - Kant, Practical Philosophy, p. 574 (Ak 6, p. 455).
- Schulz had arranged for him an associate professorship in 1735.
- See Manfred Kuehn, "Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff," in The Colum¬
bia History of Western Philosophy, ed. Richard H. Popkin (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1999), pp. 472-475. - Vorländer, Kants Leben, p. 21.
- Cursus philosophicus, sive Compendium praecipuarum scientiarutn philosophicarum,
Dialecticae nempe, Analyticae, Politicae, sub qua comprehenditur Ethica, Physicae et
Metaphysicae. Ex evidentioribus rectae rationis pnncipium deductum, methoda scien-
tifica adornatum (Königsberg/Leipzig, 1703). - Erdmann, Knutzen, p. 21.
- But he was by no means the only one. The notorious Fischer, who also had started
out as an Aristotelian, had published in 1716 Problematica dialectka, quibus extan-
tiora dialecticae capita sub expresso problematis schemate ex locis topicis ventilanda
exhibentur (Königsberg, 1716). - See Borowski, Leben, p. 100. See also Vorländer, Immanuel Kant, I, pp. 50,82. Kant
went to the Collegium Fridericianum with Kypke's nephew, who became his friend
and colleague. See also Klemme, Die Schule Immanuel Kants, pp. 40, 46. Werner
Stark thinks it may have been the house of the younger Kypke (Werner Stark,
"Wo lehrte Kant? Recherchen zu Kants Königsberger Wohnungen," in Königs¬
berg. Beiträge zu einem besonderen Kapitel der deutschen Geistesgeschichte, ed. Joseph
Kohnen (Frankfurt [Main]: Peter Lang, 1994), pp. 81-109, p. 88f - Erdmann, Knutzen, p. 68.
- Konschel, Der junge Hamann, pp. 26-27n.
- Konschel, "Christian Gabriel Fischer," p. 433.
- In 1731 he published an English grammar (in Königsberg), Johannis Wallisis trac-
tatus de loquela seu sonorum formatione grammatic-physicus et grammatica linguae
Anglicanae per compendium edita nexis dictionis Anglicanae exemplis selectis. - In 1741 he gave a lecture on Pope, and in 1742 he announced two courses on him.
See Erdmann, Knutzen, pp. 140, I49n. - All this is, of course, somewhat speculative. Kant may have learned of British au¬
thors elsewhere. Their books were everywhere. British thought and culture were
represented prominently at the University of Königsberg when Kant was a student.