ABSTRACT
After his appointment as Professor-in-ordinary, Immanuel Kant effected a reduction of his teaching hours, generally giving only two lectures a day and adding a third on Saturday for revision. He made no further increase in the scope of his lectures, apart from the fact that, in accordance with the current duties of a Professor-in-ordinary of the Faculty of Philosophy, he gave a lecture on pedagogy when it came to his turn to do so. Curtailment of his previously very extensive teaching activities was necessary, apart from any other reason, to give him more time for literary work on the completion of his philosophical system. For this purpose also, he gave up his post as assistant librarian in the Royal Library, which he had only taken in the first place to augment his rather small income. Before assuming his new position, Kant had to take his professor's oath, which, amongst other things, such as the Anabaptists and Zwinghans.
