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458 Notes to Pages 129—132

Rousseau.. ." See Johann Gottfried Herder, Sämmtliche Werke, 33 vols., ed.

Bernhard Suphan (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1877-1913), XVIII,

p. 325; VIII, p. 211.

135. Herder, Werke, ed. Suphan, XXI, pp. 121".


136. Herder, Werke, ed. Suphan, XX, pp. 3241I


137. Herder, Werke, ed. Suphan, XX, p. 325.


138. Herder, Werke, ed. Suphan, XVII, p. 404.


139. Abegg, Reisetagebuch, p. 251.


140. Herder, Preface to Kalligone, in Herder, Werke, ed. Suphan, XXII, p. 12.


141. Some have been translated. See Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics, pp. 3-16; and Im¬
     manuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, tr. Peter Heath, ed. Peter Heath and Jerry Schnee-
     wind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 1-36. There are also
     notes taken in Kant's lectures on physical geography, which will be published in
     vol. 26 of the Academy edition.


142. Ak 24.1 (Logik Herder), pp. 3-6, pp. 4f.


143. Ak 29.1,1 (Mathematik Herder and Physik Herder), pp. 49-66, 69-71.


144. SeeAk27.i (Praktische Philosophie Herder), pp. 3-89; and Ak 28.1 (Metaphysik
     Herder), pp. 1-166.


145. Kant, Lectures on Ethics, p. 5 (Ak27.i,p. 6). I will not follow the translation exactly.


146. Kant, Lectures on Ethics, p. 5 (Ak 27.1, p. 6).


147. Kant, Lectures on Ethics, p. 7 (Ak 27.1, p. 11).


148. Ak 27.1, p. 23 (not translated in Kant, Lectures on Ethics).


149. Ak 27.1, p. 8 (not translated in Kant, Lectures on Ethics).


150. Kant, Lectures on Ethic, p. 23 (Ak 27.1, p. 49).


151. Ak 27.1, p. 85 (not translated in Kant, Lectures on Ethics).


152. Ak 20, p. 44. To get some idea of the background of his former view one should
     consult Wieland's "Platonische Betrachtungen über den Menschen" (Platonic
     Meditations on Man) of 1755 (Wieland, Sämmtliche Werke, XIV, pp. 65-100).
     Wieland divides human beings into four classes, and only the class of speculative
     minds and those of genius have any real value. The other two classes are unfor¬
     tunate because they are driven by their sensible nature alone. Curiously enough,
     Kant's mature view is in some ways a return to such "Platonic Meditations
     on Man."


153. Ak 20, p. 30. There is a popular anecdote to the effect that Kant forgot his regu¬
     lar walk because he was so engrossed in Rousseau. Since he did not live the highly
     regulated life of his later years in 1764, this anecdote is probably false.


154. Ak20, p. 43.


155. See also Klaus Reich, "Rousseau und Kant," Neue Hefte fiir Philosophie 29
     (1989), pp. 80-96. Also of interest in this connection are Ernst Cassirer, Rousseau,
     Kant, Goethe, tr. James Gutmann, Paul-Oskar Kristeller, and John Hermann
     Randall (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), and Richard L. Velkley,
     Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Phi¬
     losophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).


156. Ak 20, pp. s8f. Rousseau also influenced Kant in other ways. See Reinhard Brandt,
     "Rousseau und Kants 'Ich denke,'" in Autographen, Dokumente und Berichte, ed.
     Brandt and Stark, pp. 1-18.