Kant: A Biography

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450 Notes to Pages 96—100


Frank Aschoff, "Zwischen äußerem Zwang und innerer Freiheit. Fichte's
Hauslehrer-Erfahrungen und die Grundlegung seiner Philosophie," Fichte-
Studien 9 (1997), pp. 27-45.


  1. See Waschkies, Physik undPhysikotheologie, p. 28; but see also Michaelis, "Kant-
    Hauslehrer in Judtschen?," Kant-Studien 38 (1933), pp. 492-493.

  2. Compare Vorländer, Immanuel Kant, I, pp. 65-68.

  3. Though it is likely he never learned to speak it well.

  4. This is about as far as Kant ever traveled from Königsberg. Though he often went
    on excursions around Königsberg, the only trips that are comparable are those
    to Goldapp (about seventy-five miles). Otherwise, Kant seems to have stayed
    within a thirty-mile radius. (Pillau was that far away.)

  5. Rink, Ansichten, p. 29.

  6. Ak 10, p. 2. ,. '

  7. Feder, Leben, pp. 173.

  8. Borowski, Leben, pp. 4of.

  9. It is often assumed that Kraus's remark that he did not know anything of a "Kon¬
    dition" with the Keyserlingks means that Kant could not have been a teacher
    in their household at that time. However, since the Keyserlingk family lived in
    Königsberg at least during part of the relevant period, Kant could well have been
    a teacher there, without living in their household (for that is what "in Kondition"
    means).

  10. SeeAki,p. 185....

  11. Ak 1, p. 191.

  12. Ak 1, p. 213.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Ak 1, p. 226. Another way of putting this might be that he is following up the
    Cartesian side of his earlier enterprise, leaving the Leibnizian aspect to one side.

  15. Ak 1, p. 221; compare Ak 23, pp. nf. These claims suggest that it is necessary to
    compare his work with those of Lau and Fischer. Kant knew that these would be
    fighting words — at least as far as the Pietists were concerned.

  16. Ak 1, p. 221.


Chapter 3: The Elegant Magister (1755-1764)


  1. See Immanuel Kant, Kant's Latin Writings: Translations, Commentaries, and Notes,
    2nd revised edition by Lewis White Beck, Mary J. Gregor, Ralf Meerbote, and
    John A Reuscher (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 11-35. The dissertation is,
    according to Beck, interesting mainly as "a succinct, reasonably accurate and
    well-informed presentation of a venerable but incorrect theory in the later stage
    of its life" (p. 12). It also is important for revealing the corpuscularian back¬
    ground of Kant's mechanics.

  2. See Reicke, Kantiana, p. 48 (Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 19).

  3. In Latin, of course. This text does not appear to have survived. Its title is simi¬
    lar to that of Kypke's speech. (Werner Stark, "Kants akademische Kollegen,"
    unpublished manuscript).

  4. Borowski, Leben, p. 41.

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