Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Cast of Characters
- Chronology of Kant's Life and Works
- Prologue
- 1 Childhood and Early Youth (1724–1740)
- 2 Student and Private Teacher (1740–1755)
- 3 The Elegant Magister (1755–1764)
- 4 A Palingenesis and Its Consequences (1764–1769)
- 5 Silent Years (1770–1780)
- 6 “All-Crushing” Critic of Metaphysics (1780–1784)
- 7 Founder of a Metaphysics of Morals (1784–1787)
- 8 Problems with Religion and Politics (1788–1795)
- 9 The Old Man (1796–1804)
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
8 - Problems with Religion and Politics (1788–1795)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Cast of Characters
- Chronology of Kant's Life and Works
- Prologue
- 1 Childhood and Early Youth (1724–1740)
- 2 Student and Private Teacher (1740–1755)
- 3 The Elegant Magister (1755–1764)
- 4 A Palingenesis and Its Consequences (1764–1769)
- 5 Silent Years (1770–1780)
- 6 “All-Crushing” Critic of Metaphysics (1780–1784)
- 7 Founder of a Metaphysics of Morals (1784–1787)
- 8 Problems with Religion and Politics (1788–1795)
- 9 The Old Man (1796–1804)
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Strained Friendship: “Writing for Kant”
Kant had said in his Preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (April 1787) that he would no longer engage in disputes with his critics because he would be spending all his time working out “the system behind this propedeutic” (Bxliii). Jachmann observed that during this time, which was that
of the greatest maturity and power of his mind, when he was working on the critical philosophy, he had no greater difficulty than to think himself into the system of some-one else. Even the writings of his enemies he could understand only with the greatest effort because he could leave his own original conceptual system only for short periods. He usually admitted this himself and usually gave to his friends the task to read for him, and to report to him the content, i.e. the main results, of foreign systems in comparison to his own, and it was perhaps for this reason that he left the defense of his system against his enemies to his students and friends.
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