Abstract

In the following, the American reader is to be familiarized with what is called the Munich School and, in particular, with my systematic philosophical work. The Munich School began to form at the start of the fifties. This School regards itself as philosophically transcendental, not in the sense that a new position is founded by it, but as the advocate and conveyor of the one transcendental philosophy. Transcendental philosophy, namely, was founded, according to the understanding of this School, essentially through René Descartes, and for the first time was detailed and realized as a system by Johann Gottlieb Fichte. In this essay, therefore, I will trace the origin of transcendental philosophy and the development of it, and will try to show the place which my own work and that of the colleagues associated with me have in the presentation of transcendental philosophy.