ABSTRACT
It was perhaps the boldness of Kant's attempt at an integral view of man and nature by extension of subjective analysis from the psychological to the rational that provided the greatest stimulus to later generations of philosophers. The inconsistency between the various strands of his thinking, however, had tobe overcome. So long as the method of subjective analysis remained dominant (rather than the positivistic leanings) it was inevitable that the relics of Cartesian dualism and Newtonian absolutism should drop out, resulting in views resembling a Platonic idealism in which communality is conceptual and thus 'transcendentally' knowable.
