478 Notes to Pages 229-233
- Ak 2, p. 452.
- Ak 10, pp. 2iyf. (not in Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig).
- Ak 2 , p. 449.
- For Mendelssohn's biography see especially Altmann, Mendelssohn. See also his
Moses Mendelssohns Frühschriften zur Metaphysik (Tübingen, 1969). Mendelssohn
lived from 1729 to 1786. Though not born in Berlin, he lived most of his life
there. Starting from relatively humble beginnings, he became the most promi¬
nent member of the Jewish community in that city. He was one of the closest
friends of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who portrayed him in one of his plays as
"Nathan the Wise." Advocating the cultural assimilation of the Jewish commu¬
nity into German society, he became famous as "the Jewish Socrates" for his
philosophical thought. He was also the target of attack by fundamentalist Chris¬
tians, who challenged him to explain why - given the enlightened beliefs he
held - he had not yet converted to Christianity. He defended his cause admirably.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who came to his defense in a satirical attack on
the fundamentalists, summed up their fears, saying: "A Jew who was a natural
honest man would be regarded as a fellow human being and might even be pre¬
ferred to a Christian? The very idea makes one shudder." Many enlightened
Germans took Mendelssohn to be the very model of an enlightened person. He
not only was important for his thought, but also became an icon for their most
deeply held beliefs. - Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, p. 87.
- Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, ed. Lewis White Beck
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950), pp. 8f. (Ak 4, pp. 26of). - Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, pp. 58f. (Ak 10, pp. 96f).
- Ak 10, p. 122 (not in Zweig).
- Ak io, p. 123 (not in Zweig).
- Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, pp. 73 (Ak 10, p. 132). See also p. 74 (Ak 10,
p. 133): "The Göttingen reviewer [of the dissertation] dwells on some applica¬
tions of the system that in themselves are not essential and with respect to which
I myself have since changed my view - with the result, however, that my main
aim has only been furthered." - Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, pp."]"]{. (Ak 10, p. 144).
- Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, p. 86 (Ak 10, p. 199).
- Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, p. 89 (Ak 10, p. 213). I have changed the
translation. - Ak 10, pp. 23if. (not in Zweig).
- Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, p. 90 (Ak 10, p. 241).
- Ak 10, p. 241.
- Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, pp. 93f (Ak 10, p. 266).
- Kant, Correspondence, tr. Zweig, pp. ioof. (Ak 10, p. 338). I have slightly changed
the translation. - For a more systematic discussion of the issues connected with this claim, see
Heiner F Klemme, Kants Philosophie des Subjekts. Systematische und entmicklungsge-
schichtliche Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Selbstbewußtsein und Selbsterkenntnis
(Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, 1996).