ABSTRACT
Turning over the leaves of the three volumes of Die Deutsche Philosophic in Selbstdarstellungen, which have suggested to our editor the plan of this book, I find that the task set to each contributor is twofold. He is expected, on the one hand, himself to cast up, as it were, the sum of his philosophical life-work, and, on the other, to give an autobiographical account of the experiences and influences which have made his philosophy what it is. How did his philosophy come to be? And what does it amount to? These are, broadly, the two questions to which, in self-interpretation, we are asked to give an answer.
