ABSTRACT
The most distinguished representative of the Kantian movement in France is Jules Lachelier, who stands out as the most profoundly speculative mind of modern French Philosophy. L. Liard interprets the Kantian primacy of the Practical Reason only in its most superficial sense, as a mere renunciation of thought, abandonment to the revelation of consciousness. Like E. Vacherot and Charles Renouvier, the French neo-Kantians have been very much concerned with the problem of the solution of the antinomies. R. Berthelot’s study has given rise to an interesting discussion in which E. Boutroux has taken part, and which shows how the French are gradually acquiring a more thorough knowledge of Hegelianism. Louis Weber sums up in himself, while he supersedes, the whole of contemporary French philosophy, and represents a tendency which is at the same time advancing in Italy and to a certain extent in England, which in the opinion of the present writer is the highest fruit of Hegelianism.
