ABSTRACT

Neo-Kantianism begins by propounding exactly the same problem as empiricism, the problem of immediate experience: and it solves it in an analogous fashion. Albrecht Lange may be regarded as the founder of neo-Kantianism. The philosophy of A. Riehl contains the dualism in an aggravated form, due to a more complete misinterpretation of Kant. This dualism is the starting-point of the philosophy of value. It represents a compromise between formal logic and philosophical logic. The valuations with which philosophy is concerned are those which have a universal character; they are not the valuations of the individual as such, but those which transcend it. The historical conception of reality which had culminated in Hegel was absolutely lost in the period of naturalism, a doctrine that is essentially anti-historical, and fixes reality once and for all in the motionless forms of matter.