ABSTRACT
The reception of Immanuel Kant's first Critique, the Critique of Pure Reason, by the main members of the German idealistic movement by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, is a complex and complicated story. Salomon Maimon thought of himself as neither a Kantian nor a non-Kantian. Fichte became acquainted with Kant's philosophy early in his intellectual development, even before he started his academic career. As with Fichte, Schelling's engagement with Kant becomes less dominant in his later writings. According to Hegel, Kant's position with respect to the concept of an intuitive understanding in the first Critique is even more puzzling if one takes into account Kant's assessment of the role of the intuitive understanding in the Critique of the Power of Judgment.
