Being and Time completed continuation of his project: Although Heidegger describes his method in "Being and Time" as phenomenological, the question of its relation to the phenomenology of Husserl is complex. The fact that Heidegger believes that ontology includes an irreducible hermeneutic (interpretative) aspect, for example, might be thought to run counter to Husserl's claim that phenomenological description is capable of a form of scientific positivity. On the other hand, however, several aspects of the approach and method of "Being and Time" seem to relate more directly to Husserl's work. The central Husserlian concept of the directedness of all thought—intentionality—for example, while scarcely
German idealism philosopher at all". Reality results from God’s thinking, according to Hegel. Objects that appear to a spectator originate in God’s mind. Neo-Kantianism refers broadly to a revived type of philosophy along the lines of that laid down by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, or more specifically by Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy in his work "The World as Will and Representation" (1818), as well as by other post-Kantian philosophers such as Jakob Friedrich Fries and Johann Friedrich Herbart. It has some more specific reference in later German philosophy. Hegel was hugely influential throughout the nineteenth century; by its