ABSTRACT
Systematic reflections on possible historical affiliations or systematic analogies presuppose first a sufficiently precise survey of the periods of the development of the systems of German idealism and of the periods of the development of the phenomenological movement. Systematic reflections presuppose secondly an approximately complete list of the explicit references in the different periods of the development. The Absolute given in intellectual intuition was for the German idealists not given as absolute indifference. Already Fichte proposed a method for the systematic explication of the Absolute. Fichte’s transition is, seen from the viewpoint of Husserl, the general foundation for the step beyond Kant toward a metaphysical explication of the Absolute in intellectual intuition and speculative thinking of German idealism. According to Fichte’s interpretation of Kant’s transcendental deduction, consciousness has its ultimate condition of any possible experience in the unity of transcendental apperception, the transcendental ego, an ultimate condition that is itself not given as an object of experience.
