Kant excelled at the University of Konigsberg at the age of 16.

康德16岁便考入了哥尼斯堡大学
At age of 31, he got his first job as an unsalaried lecturer

31岁时他得到了第一份工作编外讲师
paid on commission based on number of students showed up at his lectures.

工资是根据上他课的学生人数来定的
This is a sensible system that Harvard would do well to consider.

这个系统非常明智哈佛也应考虑一下
Luckily for Kant, he was a popular lecturer

康德很幸运他大受欢迎
and also an industrious one and so he eked out a meager living.

当然也很勤奋勉强维持住了拮据的生活
It wasn't until he was 57 that he published his first major work.

直到57岁他才出版了第一本重要著作
But, it was worth the wait,

但等待是值得的
the book was the "Critique of Pure Reason"

这本书就是《纯粹理性批判》
perhaps the most important work in all of modern philosophy.

这或许是现代哲学里最重要的一本著作
And a few years later, kant wrote "the Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals"

几年后康德编著了《道德形而上学的基础》
which we read in this course.

这也是本课程的必读书