> What does it add to one's understanding of Kant to know a few anecdotes about the regularity of his life. If we can build up a picture of someone from anecdo

> What does it add to one's understanding of Kant to know a few anecdotes about the regularity of his life. If we can build up a picture of someone from anecdotes about their life we can use this information to inform our understanding of why their work might have taken one form rather than another. For example, Schopenhauer criticised the notoriously obscure schemata of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by saying that it was a result of Kant's psychological need for architectonic symmetry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(Kant)#cite_ref-93 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(Kant)#cite_ref-93