EDGING IMMANUIL. PHILOSOPHY TOP

In 1764 to the Edging it was executed forty years. By this time it has already got popularity, respect of colleagues and students. Also its books well dispersed, and recently written ' Supervision over feeling ennobled and fine ' have brought to it glory of the fashionable author. But Immanuil still remained the privat-senior lecturer, without receiving from university not a stiver.

It was necessary to Fill up the budget, earning additionally the assistant to the librarian in a royal palace, and also finding other small earnings. In the course of time his name became more and more known, it had a possibility to receive a place at other universities (Erlangensky and Jensky), and only the native Kenigsbergsky university still refused to the Edging professorate.

In Berlin understood affectation of a similar situation, and at last in March, 1770 the main dream of the scientist has come true: the special decree of the king it has been appointed by the ordinary professor of logic and metaphysics. In this rank the Edging remained even then when its works have brought to it the world glory, and Kenigsberg became Mecca for students-philosophers. To change the position, it was necessary for scientist to defend the professorial dissertation.

New work was called ' About the form and principles sensually perceived and intelligibelnogo the world '. After protection of this dissertation the Edging already almost printed nothing, devoting all free time to the book ' the Critic of pure reason '. This fundamental work left in 1781 and became top not only German, but also world philosophy.