Notes to Pages 132—136 459- Ak 28.1, p. 5 (not translated in Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics).
- Ak 28.1, p. 6 (not translated in Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics).
- Ak 28.1, p. 14 (not translated in Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics).
- Ak28.i, p. 102.
- Ak28.i, pp. io3f.
- Ak28.i, p. 108.
- This description of Kant's effects on a young mind is taken from R. G. Colling-
wood, An Autobiography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939), who tried to
read the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals at the age of nine. It also de¬
scribes, better than I ever could, my own first exposure to Kant - and, I am sure,
that of many others. - Malter, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 66; see also Dobbek, Herders Jugendjahre,
p. in. Hippel was similarly affected by Rousseau. See Emil Brenning, "Hippel
and Rousseau," Altpreussische Monatsschrift 16 (1873), pp. 286—300. - Herder, "Versuch über das Sein," in Gottfried Martin, "Herder als Schüler Kants,
Aufsätze und Kolleghefte aus Herders Studienzeit," Kant-Studien 41 (1936),
pp. 294-306. - Martin, "Herder als Schüler Kants," p. 304.
- See Herder, Werke, ed. Suphan, XXIX, p. 255.
- Herder, Werke, ed. Suphan, IV, p. 175.
- Schneider, Hippel, p. 124. See also Hamann, Briefwechsel, IV, p. 65, where Herder
wrote: "I am not conscious of having done anything against Hippel either in word
or deed. My course never limited his, even though he amply ridiculed all my first
steps in Königsberg." - Böttiger, Literarische Zustände und Zeitgenossen (1838), p. 133 (Malter, Kant in
Rede und Gespräch, p. 27). - Hamann, Briefwechsel, I, 234.
- Rink, Ansichten, p. 81.
- Hamann, Briefwechsel, II, p. 188.
- This is Werner Stark's suggestion.
- The first is an attempt to describe illnesses of the faculty of cognition. Kant talks
about idiocy, foolishness, insanity, craziness, melancholy (depression), enthusiasm,
hypochondria, etc., in a lighthearted fashion. His description of hypochondria is
interesting from a biographical point of view (see Ak 2, pp. 259-271). The review
(Ak 2, pp. 272f.) is simply a short announcement of a book on a meteor. But Kant
could not refrain from poking fun at Weymann; having spoken of Weymann's me¬
teoric rise before, he characterized the meteor as "bright and terrible, just like
colossal human beings at times, but just as quickly absorbed in the wide chasm
of nothingness" (p. 272). - Ak 2, p. 57. Actually he says "in the logical presentation" or "in dem logischen
Vortrage." - Ak 2, pp. 466f.
- Compare Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, pp. lvii f. However, the book
was reviewed by Resewitz, not by Mendelssohn, as is claimed by Vorländer and
in Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. lx. In fact, Resewitz reviewed most
of the writings from this period.