Notes to Pages 125—129 457- After Hippel experienced the freeing of his soul in Petersburg, he appreciated
Kant more - or so it appears. But for what it is worth, he never appears to have
viewed himself as a "student" of Kant, and he found it strange when he was later
characterized in this way. - Schulz began his studies on September 25, 1756. Borowski is not the only one to
mention him as one of Kant's important students. Wald does so too. See Reicke,
Kantiana, pp. 31, 37. Since Schulz said in his reponse to Wald that he did not
"dare" to decide who were Kant's most important students and thus left the
space blank, it may have been modesty that kept him from pointing out that he
was Kant's student. - Ak 2, p. 41.
- Ak 2, p. 42.
- I am grateful to Werner Stark for this information.
- Hamann, Briefwechsel, I, 234.
- Hagen in Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 76. While the anecdote is prob¬
ably spurious, it does illustrate the social climate of the time. A professor seemed
to count for less than an officer. See also Mortzfeld according to Maker, Kant in
Rede und Gespräch, p. 75 - Ak 10, p. 34 (April 5,1761). Borowski was at the house of the Knoblochs at Kant's
recommendation. - Molyneux had proposed in 1690 in a letter to Locke that the question of how
much in perception was native and how much was learned could be solved by de¬
priving people from birth of all visual sensory experience and therefore also of
the opportunity for visual perceptual learning. When normal sensory function
was restored, they could be tested to see whether any perceptual functions were
still intact. This problem was hotly debated during the eighteenth century. Such
operations as the one Kant attended yielded only ambiguous evidence, insuffi¬
cient to answer the question. - Schneider, Hippel, p. 124.
- Johann Gottfried Herder, Briefe, Gesamtausgabe 1763-1803, ed. Karl-Heinz
Hahn (Weimar: Herman Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1977-88), I, p. 95. Kant also rec¬
ommended Herder to Schiffen as a teacher at the Collegium Fridericianum. But
Herder apparently did not find teaching at this institution a pleasant experience. - Dobbek, Herders Jugendjahre, p. 94.
- Dobbek, Herders Jugendjahre, p. 93. He apparently moved into his own house in
1761 (see also Hamann, Briefwechsel, II, p. 119). - It is not known when Kant moved from his quarters in Kypke's house to the Ma-
gistergasse. But it probably was sometime during the early sixties. - Stark, "Wo lehrte Kant," p. 90.
- Borowski, Leben, pp. 73f, 69.
- Borowski, Leben, p. 72.
- I quote from Lewis White Beck's translation in "Kant's Life and Work," in Im¬
manuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (New York: Macmillan,
1990), p. xxvi. At another place Herder said: "I have heard in Königsberg Kant's
judgments on Leibniz, Newton, Wolff, Crusius, Baumgarten, Helvetius, Hume,