Kant: A Biography

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  1. Kant, Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, p. im (Ak 4, p. 47411). The
    footnote must have been added either in December of 1785 or early in 1786.

  2. Hamann, Briefwechsel,Vl, p. 349; see also p. 338.

  3. Rink, Ansichten, p. 82.

  4. The literature is vague on the date of Green's death (1786 or 1787). I am grate¬
    ful to Dr. Lindemann-Stark for information about the exact date (based on Alt-
    preussische Biographie, I, p. 229).

  5. Hamann to Jacobi on May 26, 1786; see Hamann, Briefwechsel, VI, p. 401.

  6. Jachmann, Kant, p. 163. Jachmann should have known, because both he and his
    brother had also been friends of Green.

  7. Hamann, Briefwechsel, VII, pp. iO4f., wrote on January 30, 1787: "I ate at Jacobi's
    together with Kant, who intends to prepare his own household, and his head is
    full with this. Crispus [Kraus] is to be his companion.. ."

  8. Hamann, Briefwechsel, VII, p. 148.

  9. Hamann, Briefwechsel, VII, p. 198.

  10. See Voigt, Kraus, pp. 264^

  11. Jachmann, Kant, p. 186, said that these were the people who came to Kant's din¬
    ners "until 1794." I have left out Kraus, whom he also mentioned, since he did
    not come after 1790, and because he was not really a guest before then.

  12. Reusch, Tischfreunde, p. 11.

  13. Voigt, Kraus, p. 198.

  14. Abegg, Reisegeschichte, pp. 255f. (Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 318); see
    also Jachmann, Kant, p. 163 (Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 319).

  15. Jachmann, Kant, pp. i63f. (Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 319).

  16. Brahl in Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 319. For more on this, see pp. 331-
    334 of this volume.

  17. Hasse, Kant's Tischgenossen, pp. 6f.

  18. Abegg, Reisetagebuch, pp. 255f. (see Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 318).

  19. For a discussion of Reid's influence on Jacobi, see Kuehn, Scottish Common Sense,
    pp. 141-162.

  20. Jacobi, Werke, II, pp. 299-304.

  21. Jacobi, Werke, II, pp. 303^

  22. Jacobi, Werke, II, p. 308: "The very word 'sensibility' does not make sense, if we
    do not mean a distinct and real medium between two realities, and if the con¬
    ceptions of externality and connection, of active and passive, of causality and
    dependency are not already contained as real and objective determinations in it;
    and contained in it in such a way that the absolute universality and necessity of
    these conceptions as prior presuppositions is given at the very same time."

  23. Jacobi, Werke, II, p. 309.

  24. Jacobi, Werke, II, p. 304. Herder later followed Hamann and Jacobi's lead, saying
    that Kant created too many artificial distinctions. In his Vernunft und Sprache.
    Eine Metakritik zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft of 1799, he characterized Kant's
    philosophy as a "splitting" (zerspaltende) one, as a "philosophia schismatica."
    Wherever Kant looks, antinomies and splits arise; dichotomies are the work of
    critical philosophy.

  25. For a short summary, see Beiser, The Fate of Reason, pp. 159—164. Beiser does,

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