ABSTRACT
Rudolph Eucken leads the new metaphysical movement. He understands that the theory of the immediate subjectivity of consciousness leads to naturalistic subjectivism, and that it must therefore be surmounted. W. Wundt, the most distinguished exponent of this movement, starts from the general assumption of empiricism, the identity of subject and object in immediate consciousness. The neo-Kantian philosophy is thus the outcome of the same attempt as empiricism, and, like empiricism, it fails even to reach the position of E. Kant. The chapter discusses the forms in which this phenomenon is manifested in contemporary German philosophy. It shows how from the heart of naturalism there rises a tendency which is opposed to it and attempts to suppress and destroy it, but which nevertheless carries in itself the germs of the very corruption from which it is trying to escape.
