Schleiermacher busied himself with Kant’s philosophy throughout his life but especially from his nineteenth to his twenty-seventh year.2 Schleiermacher was deeply convinced of the validity of Kant’s negative conclusions with respect to the Ideas of Reason. Dilthey says it never occurred to Schleiermacher to seek for a reinstatement of the metaphysical speculation that had been destroyed by Kant.3 Of Schleiermacher’s relation to Kant, Dilthey says: He took Kant’s critical attitude and point of