Universities Students Professors. Fichte, Johann Gottlieb [ July 91 ]. Herder, Joh. Hippel, T. Hogendorp, Dirk van [ early 80s ]. Kant [ s ][ ] [ Oct 94 ]. Kraus, Chr. Mortzfeld, Joh. Purgstall, Gottf. Wenzel [ April 95 ]. Puttlich, Chr. Reichardt, Johann Friedrich [ ]. Rink, Fr. Schön, H. Wannowski, Stephan [ after ]. Zedlitz, K. Ludwig Ernst Borowski was an early student of Kant's and later close acquaintance. The following comes from his biography of Kant:. I attended his first lecture in He lived then in the house of Professor Kypke, [1] in the Neustadt, where he had a spacious lecture Dating Kant S Vorlesungen Kuehn. This, as well as the stairway and the entrance hall, was filled with a nearly unbelievable number of students. This seemed to make Kant quite embarrassed. Unused to this situation, he nearly lost his composure, speaking even more softly than usual and often correcting himself. But this just increased our admiration of the man whom we presumed to have the most wide-ranging learnedness and who seemed to us merely modest, rather than afraid. Things were already quite different by the next lecture. His delivery was, just as in the lectures that followed, not only thorough, but also liberal-minded and pleasant. The textbook upon which he more or less based his lectures was never followed closely, and only such that he arranged his own teaching according to the ordering of the author. The fullness of his learning often led him into digressions, that were still always quite interesting. He often brought a special, hand-written notebook, besides his textbook, whose margins were filled with notes. Admittedly it was necessary to pay close attention to his lectures. Everything must be carefully noted, as is only reasonable. He was not keen on taking notes. It bothered him when he noticed that more important material was being overlooked, while the less important was being noted down; also other things bothered him, e. Seldom did teachers warn students from this as often and as earnestly as did Kant. Doubt from students and requests for a closer explanation, he accepted in his early years most agreeably. Even his lectures were a free discussion spiced with and good humor. Often citations and references to writings that he had just read; occasional anecdotes which, however, always suited the material. I never heard in his lectures any sexually suggestive remarks, by which many other teachers, however, would use to enliven their lectures, but which drives the good, well-raised boys from their lecture halls. His later students have also testified to this. One of these, now a man, always thought well of Kant to the very end, praised Kant to me recently that Kant in his lectures was always so careful in his interaction with the students regarding anything that could have been harmful to them. Trust in his knowledge and the desire to take classes from him went so far during his years as a lecturer that one believed he was able to teach anything that could be considered part of the philosophy faculty. So some students, mainly from Curland, wanted him to offer a course on aesthetics and lessons on German eloquence. He surely would have done a fine job lecturing, but it was simply too Dating Kant S Vorlesungen Kuehn afield for him; he assigned it to me and under his direction I gave lessons on this during the winters of and to a circle of young people, some of whom are still living. Forty years and more he was a thoroughly honored teacher in our province, whose lecture room was never empty. Many indeed came merely to be able to say that they had taken his class.
Kant’s Lectures by discipline
List of Lectures (by discipline) Stark (Hrsg.), Kant-Forschungen, Bd. I [im Erscheinen]. Studien The course topics over which Kant is reported as having lectured are listed here, along with information on how often they were taught and when. 3 Vgl. M. Kuehn, Dating Kant's 'Vorlesungen?ber philosophische Enzyklop?die', in: Kant. List: Contemporary AccountsThe Vernunftlehre would have cost three and one-half months of the pay Kant received for his work as a sub-librarian [, ]. Was er der gelehrten Welt geleistet, dies bedarf keiner Anpreisung, seine Werke sprechen für ihn selbst. Rege Aufmerksamkeit war freilich immer erforderlich. Meine Verachtung der Menschheit kam hinzu. Die übrige Vorlesungen dieses halben Jahres sind schon gehöriges Orts öffentlichangezeigt worden. His teaching skills, as well as his many-sided knowledge that, because of its relevance to the human condition, provided his talents for social conversation such a wide playing field; and this, along with the fame from his earlier writings, especially the Allgemeine Naturgeschichte des Himmels appearing in , [1] quickly made his lecture hall into one of the most frequented, even though he was just a private lecturer, and also led many students to him outside the lecture hall, and won for him many respectable friends and admirers.
Journal Overview
), Immanuel Kant, Vorlesungen zur Moralphilosophie (Berlin: de Gruyter, ), pp. vii–xxxvCrossRefGoogle Scholar. Studien Contemporary Accounts of Kant's Lectures. The vast majority of the following excerpts come from Rudolf Malter's fine collection of texts on Kant's life. The course topics over which Kant is reported as having lectured are listed here, along with information on how often they were taught and when. Kuehn, Manfred, 'Introduction' in Immanuel. 3 Vgl. M. Kuehn, Dating Kant's 'Vorlesungen?ber philosophische Enzyklop?die', in: Kant. Stark (Hrsg.), Kant-Forschungen, Bd. I [im Erscheinen].Announcing Best Books of Einige haben sie mit der Aristotelischen verbunden, wie z. Other comments on logic texts can be found in the student notes: an-Wien Among the moderns, Leibniz and Wolff are to be noted. Other than that, he lives in his small house on a side street. Alles dieses aber nicht mit derjenigen Vollständigkeit und philosophischen Genauheit in den Theilen, welche ein Geschäfte der Physik und Naturgeschichte ist, sondern mit der vernünftigen Neubegierde eines Reisenden, der allenthalben das Merkwürdige, das Sonderbare und Schöne aufsucht, seine gesammelte Beobachtungen vergleicht und seinen Plan überdenkt. Nach ein paar Tagen erschien er. It involved rather less preparation than a normal course of lectures, meeting a bit less than one-fourth the hours of the other public lectures. In my spare time, I am trying to prepare a preliminary study for the students out of this very pleasant empirical study, an analysis of the nature of skill prudence and even wisdom that, along with physical geography and distinct from all other learning, can be called knowledge of the world. Kant, wenn ich nicht den Verzug der Übersendung Ihrer phys. IX-X Mechanicam, Hydrostaticam, Hydraulicam, Aerometriam, Martin thinks that this was clearly a two-semester sequence:. Diversity, I think, will compensate for incompleteness, since each set of notes will have noticed something different. I intend to use it to disclose the sources of all the practical sciences, the science of morality, of skill, of human intercourse, of the way to educate and govern human beings, and thus of everything that pertains to the practical I shall seek to discuss phenomena and their laws rather than the foundations of the possibility of human thinking in general. It was a joy to see how these boys would delight in the new prospects of human beings and nature opened up to them — and next to them would sit such learned and intelligent business men, such as the Privy Councilor Morgenbesser and others, who also found a complete nourishment for their souls. Purgstall, Gottf. Report Translate review to English. Nicolovius zum HE. Malter , ] [ For his other lectures he prepared special notebooks; except for physics which he based on Erxleben. Report an issue with this product. Kant owned the ed. He most preferred hearing Kant talk about astronomy, physical geography, and in general about the great laws of nature: here his presentation was splendid. Among the older books, more are on mathematics and physics than on philosophy. After returning from my travels to Holland and Germany, I was his dinner guest, usually twice per week, in the years and , as I also was after my return from Curland, from to Trust in his knowledge and the desire to take classes from him went so far during his years as a lecturer that one believed he was able to teach anything that could be considered part of the philosophy faculty. Yet all of that did not wholly lift the weight of his financial burden, and it was entirely justified that he once returned the remainder of an honorarium to a poor student who had wanted to pay him, after — as Kant himself said — he used some to finish paying his six-month rent and kept just a little extra for himself. Ohne diese war sein Vortrag unverstanden, folglich verloren.
