ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to trace the progress of modern thought along each independent line of its development. Modern idealism has completed the criticism of that Kantian movement which culminated in Hegel. But the modern criticism of this movement, far from being destructive, as its ill-informed advocates have believed it to be, is genuinely constructive; it has begun to bridge the gulf between Kant and Hegel and to develop the new features of their philosophy. The philosophy of immediate experience breaks out into transcendence in several directions. The departmental sciences are one of the most fruitful fields for historical culture. The problem of the sciences only arose in the nineteenth century. In the Hegelian philosophy there are no sciences, there is only science; and this is why Hegel’s philosophy was so ready to devour its own offspring and so anxious to absorb and include everything in itself.
