Kant: A Biography

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  1. Herder, Werke, ed. Suphan XXIV, pp. 24t". (Malter, Kant in Rede und Gespräch,
    p. 67).

  2. Ak 10, p. 69.

  3. Immanuel Kant, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer Illustrated by Dreams of Metaphysics, tr.
    E. F. Goerwitz (New York: MacMillan, 1900; reprint Glasgow: Thoemmes, 1992),
    pp. 831". I quote from this edition, but I also give the page numbers in Kant, The¬
    oretical Philosophy, 1755-1770 (pp. 33Sf.; Ak 2, p. 348).

  4. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755—1770, p. 336 (Ak 2, p. 348).

  5. Ak 2, p. 271. Kant wrote this essay because the private tutor of the young man
    asked him to; the tutor thought it would help calm the mother. Borowski, Leben,
    p. 52 (Kant saw this and made no comment).

  6. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 306 (Ak 2, p. 319); Dreams, p. 39.

  7. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 355 (Ak 2, p. 369); Dreams, p. 115.

  8. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 359 (Ak 2, p. 373); Dreams, p. 121.

  9. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 358 (Ak 2, p. 372); Dreams, p. 120.

  10. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 355 (Ak 2, p. 369); Dreams, p. 115.

  11. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 339 (Ak 2, p. 352); Dreams, p. 90.

  12. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 315 (Ak 2, p. 328); Dreams, p. 53.

  13. Kant, Of the Beautiful and Sublime, tr. Goldthwait, p. 8.

  14. Ak 2, p. 311.

  15. Erich Adickes, Kant-Studien (Kiel and Leipzig, 1895), p. 52. Compare also his
    long paper on "Die bewegenden Kräfte in Kant's philosophischer Entwicklung
    und die beiden Pole seines Systems," Kant-Studien 1 (1897), pp. 9-59, 161-196,
    352-415, especially pp. nf.

  16. Adickes, Kant-Studien, p. 67.

  17. Adickes, Kant-Studien, p. 70. However, in the early sixties, Kant's view of analy¬
    sis is still "entirely rationalistic" (p. 81), and the basic starting point of his phi¬
    losophy has not changed: "The rationalist background of Kant's epistemology is
    thus in 1763 precisely the same as that in 1755. What is given, the starting point,
    are concepts that are potentially contained in the mind. They only require the
    influxus physicus... and propensity becomes reality" (p. 82).

  18. Adickes, Kant-Studien, p. 99.

  19. Adickes, "Die bewegenden Kräfte," p. 18.

  20. While "Umkippungen" is Kant's own term (Ak 10, p 55), it does not necessarily
    indicate radical change. Kant also said that in each of these changes, he tried to
    show how his errors and insights depended on the method he followed.

  21. See, for instance, Herman-J. de Vleeschauwer's The Development of Kantian
    Thought: The History of a Doctrine, tr. A. R. C. Duncan (London: Thomas Nel¬
    son & Sons, 1962), p. 37. Vleeschauwer places more emphasis on Kant's Newto-
    nianism, but he also argues that Kant never really became an empiricist. See also
    Lewis White Beck, "The Development of Kant's Philosophy before 1769," in
    Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors (Cambridge, Mass.: The Bel-
    knap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969), pp. 438-456. Beck argues that Kant
    "was never an orthodox Wolffian" (p. 439), that he was "a Newtonian not only in
    his cosmology but also in the theory of science" (p. 441), and places more em¬
    phasis on Crusius than does Adickes (pp. 451C). See also his "A Prussian Hume

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