Kant: A Biography

Notes to Pages 360—368 499

123. Maimon, Autobiography, pp. I45f.


124. Malter, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 372.


125. Malter, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 380. The incident led to official proceed¬
     ings against the student, which went all the way to the king in Berlin. He was to
     be incarcerated for fourteen days. But after Kant and other professors attested
     to his otherwise good character, the punishment was reduced to a fine, which ul¬
     timately he did not have to pay.


126. Maimon, Autobiography, p. 145.


127. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 30 (Ak 8, p. 263).


128. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 33 (Ak 8, p. 267).


129. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 34 (Ak 8, p. 267).


130. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 35 (Ak 8, p. 269).


131. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 36 (Ak 8, p. 270).


132. Nicolai sold his Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek to Danish Altona after an order is¬
     sued on April 17, 1794. See Epstein, The Origin of German Conservatism, p. 365;
     see also P. Bailleu, "Woellner."


133. For all this, see Hermann Noack, "Einleitung," in Immanuel Kant, Die Religion
     innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft, ed. Karl Vorländer, introduction by
     Hermann Noack, bibliography by Heiner Klemme (Hamburg: Meiner, 1990),
     pp. xxxi f.


134. Ak 12, pp. 35Qf.


135. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Fichtes Werke, ed. Immanuel Hermann Fichte, 8 vols.
     Nachgelassene Werke, 3 vols. (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1971), V, p. 59.


136. Aku,p. 349.


137. Ak n, p. 350. In December of 1792 he had not yet sent the essay. SeeAk 11, p. 397.


138. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 57.1 have had to change the translation
     to restore the emphasis of the original (compare Ak 6, p. 3).


139. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 71 (Ak 6, p. 22).


140. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 71 (Ak 6, p. 21).


141. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 79 (Ak 6, p. 32).


142. Ibid.


143. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 83 (Ak 6, p. 37).


144. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 88 (Ak 6, pp. 42f.).


145. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 74 (Ak 6, p. 25). Kant also calls Gesin¬
     nung "the first subjective ground of the adoption of maxims."


146. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 74 (Ak 6, p. 25).


147. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 92 (Ak 6, pp. 47f).


148. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 89 (Ak 6, p. 44).


149. Kant, Religion and Rational Theology, p. 88 (Ak 6, p. 43).


150. This is important, and it is often not understood. Thus Allison claims that "char¬
     acter or nature in the full Aristotelian sense ... for Kant, is to a large extent a
     function of factors such as temperament or 'way of sensing' (Sinnesart), over
     which a person has relatively little control" (Kant's Theory of Freedom, p. 141).
     To support this view, he refers to the Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.
     But the passage he refers to does not support the claim. Kant always opposes
     character as Denkungsart to mere temperament as Sinnesart, emphasizing that the