Kant: A Biography

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129. Wasianski, Kant, p. 23.


130. Some of these have survived. See Hermann Degering (ed.), Immanuel Kants Mit¬
     tagsbüchlein vom ij. August bis 25. September 1802 (Berlin, 1926).


131. Wasianski, Kant, p. 231; compare Jachmann, Kant, p. 207, as well as Rink, An¬
     sichten, pp. 105-119 (Malter, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, pp. 479-484).


132. Wasianski, Kant, p. 264; see also Rink, Ansichten, pp. 111 f. Kant hardly ever drank
     beer.


133. Wasianski, Kant, pp. 23if.


134. I will not mention most of them, since they add nothing to our understanding of
     Kant. A few samples should be sufficient to show that they were signs of senility.


135. Rink, Ansichten, p. 77; Vorländer, Kant, II, p. 28, claims Motherby died in 1799.


136. Jachmann, Kant, p. 163; Ruffmann had died in 1794, Count Keyserlingk in 1788,
     and the Countess in 1791 (see Vorländer, Kant, II, p. 28).


137. Rink to Villers, inVaihinger, "Briefe aus dem Kantkreis," p. 294. He also said that
     he had given up any hope that Kant would get better. Yet, Kant was still spend¬
     ing three hours at his dinner parties.


138. Wasianski, Kant, p. 242.


139. Ak 12, p. 443. The letter was occasioned by an earlier letter from the rector (No¬
     vember 12, 1801), asking for his resignation (Ak 12, p. 442).


140. Wasianski, Kant, p. 251.


141. Wasianski, Kant, p. 253. See also Briefe von und an Scheffner, ed. Warda, II, 401:
     "Kant has divorced Lampe by the power of the police."


142. Wasianski, Kant, p. 257.


143. Andrew Cutrofello, Discipline and Critique: Kant, Poststructuralism, and the Prob¬
     lem of Resistance (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), pp. 103-
     115, used this note and Lampe's relationship to Kant in construing a certain
     picture of Kant's sexuality. He asks "Did Lampe make some sort of explicit sex¬
     ual advance on Kant?" (pp. 1 i2f). He claims that the "imperative to forget the
     name of Lampe can be read in the light of Kant's moral condemnation of ho¬
     mosexuality. A man who approaches another man sexually no longer deserves to
     be a person. If Lampe did approach Kant sexually, Kant would have had a moral
     obligation to stop thinking of Lampe as a person" (p. 113). This is pure fantasy
     or wish fulfillment. Neither the drunk servant nor the feeble and feeble-minded
     Kant had anything of the sort in mind.


144. Scheffner, Briefe von und an Scheffner, II, p. 379.


145. Jachmann, Kant, p. 210.


146. Ibid.


147. Wasianski, Kant, p. 258.


148. Wasianski, Kant, p. 261.


149. Wasianski, Kant, p. 259.


150. Hasse, Merkwürdige Äußerungen, p. 46.


151. Wasianski, Kant, p. 265.


152. Wasianski, Kant, p. 268. Compare p. 156, this volume.


153. Wasianski, Kant, p. 279.


154. Wasianski, Kant, p. 280.