Transcendental Synthetism of W. T. Krug and its Reception by V. D. Kudryavtsev-Platonov
... he derived the being of the real and ideal world from the fact of self-consciousness. Unlike Krug, Kudryavtsev-Platonov ascribes to a priori forms of cognition not only subjective but also objective meaning. I conclude that Kudryavtsev-Platonov’s transcendental monism is genetically connected with Krug’s transcendental synthetism, i.e. its modification with a metaphysical slant. Krug’s ideas show themselves in a peculiar way in the Russian philosopher’s epistemological ideas: in the methodology of deriving ...
