Kant: A Biography

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484 Notes to Pages 273-278



  1. Rink, Ansichten, p. 82. Rink's account describes the situation after Kant had his
    own cook. But his routine differed little from the way it was two years earlier.

  2. Rink, Ansichten, p. 148.

  3. Rink, Ansichten, p. 47.

  4. Puttlich, in Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 263.

  5. Hamann, Briefwechsel, IV, pp. 386f;VI, p. 199; and VII, pp. 94, 104.

  6. Hamann, Briefwechsel, IV, pp. 386f. See also Ak 10, p. 475.

  7. Hamann, Briefwechsel, VI, p. 199.

  8. See Ak 10, p. 463. See also Hamann, Briefwechsel, VI, p. 349 and VII, p. 44.

  9. See Kuehn, Scottish Common Sense in Germany, p. 211.

  10. See Voigt, Kraus, pp. 315, 392; Beck is called Kraus's "charge" and "Kraus's
    protegee" {Zögling).

  11. Ak 11, p. 442.

  12. See D. E. Walford, "Introduction," in Selected Pre-Critical Writings and Corre¬
    spondence with Beck, ed. G. B. Kerferd and D. E. Walford, with a contribution by
    P. G. Lucas (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1968), p. xxxv.


Chapter 7: Founder of a Metaphysics of Morals (1784-1787)


  1. Hamann, Briefwechsel (September 19-20, 1784): "Kant has sent off the manu¬
    script of the Foundations." See also Ak 10, p. 308, where Kant claims that the
    work was at the printer's twenty days before Michaelmass.

  2. Thus he wrote on December 31, 1765, to Lambert that he had finished a minor
    work on the "Metaphysical Foundations (Anfangsgründe, not Grundlegung) of
    Practical Philosophy," which, together with the "Metaphysical Foundations (An¬
    fangsgründe) of Theoretical Philosophy" was soon to be published. If it had ap¬
    peared, it would no doubt have looked rather different from what he published
    twenty years later. See Ak 10, p. 56. In the winter semester of 1770-71 he ex¬
    pressed again hopes to complete a "pure moral philosophy in which no empirical
    principles can be met." The matters he would have dealt with in this work would
    undoubtedly have been much closer to the Foundations, but they would have still
    been treated differently from the way they are treated in the final product. See
    Ak 10, p. 97. See also pp. 136-138 and pp. 201-204, this volume.

  3. Ak 10, p. 279.

  4. Ak 10, pp. 346f. "This winter I will finish the first part of my morals, if not com¬
    pletely then at least in part. This work allows of greater popularity ..." (August
    16, 1783, to Mendelssohn).

  5. Ak 10, p. 346.

  6. Philosophische Anmerkungen und Abhandlungen zu Ciceros Büchern von den Pflichten.
    This was a translation or adaptation of Cicero's On Duties.

  7. See Klemme, Die Schule Immanuel Kants, pp. 76-78; see also pp. 48-49 of this
    volume.

  8. Ak 9, p. 47. See also Johan van der Zande, "In the Image of Cicero: German
    Philosophy between Wolff and Kant," Journal of the History of Ideas 56 (1995),
    pp. 419-442-

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