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the person." Though general rules may be more dangerous, they are also more

meritorious when they are correct.

160. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy 1755-1770, p. 273 (Ak 2, p. 299).


161. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy 1755-1770, p. 372 (Ak 2, p. 383).

Chapter 5: Silent Years (1770-1780)

1. Ak 10, p. 91.


2. See Paul Schwartz, Die Gelehrtenschule Preußens unter dem Oberschulkollegium
   (1787-1806) und das Abiturientenexamen. Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica,
   Nr. 50 (1912), pp. 586f. See also Euler and Stiening, "'... und nie der Pluralität
   widersprach'?," p. 64.


3. However, the salary of sublibrarian, amounting to 60 Thalers, must be added to
   this.


4. Davies, Identity or History, p. 20. Davies refers to Jolowicz, Geschichte der Juden
   in Königsberg, p. 92, and Hans Jürgen Krüger, Die Judenschaft in Königsberg in
   Preußen 1700-1802 (Marburg, 1966).


5. Ak 12, p. 208. See also Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, p. 239.


6. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 384 (Ak 2, p. 392). I give the refer¬
   ence in this edition, but for the most part I follow Beck's translation in Kant,
   Latin Writings.


7. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 384 (Ak 2, p. 393).


8. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 384 (Ak 2, p. 392)


9. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 387 (Ak 2, p. 395).


10. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 386 (Ak 2, p. 394).


11. This bit of dogmatism was abandoned by Kant later, but that's a different part
    of the story.


12. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 385 (Ak 2, p. 393).


13. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 408 (Ak 2, p. 412).


14. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, pp. 4isf (Ak 2, p. 419).


15. Ibid.


16. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 388 (Ak 2, p. 396).


17. I use A 576/B604 to flesh out this notion.


18. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 388 (Ak 2, p. 396).


19. Kant seems to have read Plato himself. But, as Michael Gill has pointed out to
    me, much of this can also be found in the works of the so-called Cambridge Pla-
    tonists. Cudworth is a good example of this. Kant probably knew them as well.
    See Ralph Cudworth,^! Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, with
    A Treatise of Freewill, ed. Sarah Hutton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

20. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 388 (Ak 2, p. 396).


21. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 415 (Ak 2, p. 419).


22. Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770, p. 406 (Ak 2, p. 411).


23. Reinhard Brandt, "Materialien zur Entstehung der Kritik der reinen Vernunft (John
    Locke und Johann Schultz)," in Beiträge zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781—ig8i,
    ed. Ingeborg Heidemann and Wolfgang Ritzel (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1981), pp. 37-