System of Transcendental Idealism

has long been regarded as established truth, to take it once more under examination, and even assuming that it withstands that examination, at least to let it emerge from it in an entirely new form and shape.

The purpose of the present work is precisely this: to expand transcendental idealism; a school of philosophy that suggests our experience of things is shaped by the necessary structures of our own minds into what it truly ought to be—namely, a system of the whole of knowledge; a complete and unified framework for all human understanding (System des gesammten Wissens). Thus, the proof of that system is to be conducted not merely in general terms, but through the deed itself—that is, through the actual extension of its principles; the foundational laws or axioms of a system to all possible problems regarding the main objects of knowledge. These problems either had already been raised before but remained unresolved, or have only been made possible and newly emerged through the system itself. It follows from this of itself that this writing [deals with] questions and objects...
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