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The work is a reply to the essay of Dr. Hirner Was Michal Steigel a passive epigone of Kant?, which was published in the last number of the Slovak Journal of Philosophy. The author there points out that though Dr. Hirner rightly showed the hitherto insufficient appreciation of Steigel as a pure Kantian he is going too far when appreciating him as Kant’s opponent. We can by no means agree with his statement that Steigel denied the conception about the existence of the thing-in-itself, that he was a persistent sensualist and that he developed that part of Kant’s system which gave birth to the materialistic theory of reflection etc., because for all this there is no ground in Steigel’s Fragment. The contribution of Steigel’s work consists only in the consequences which followed for the speculative nonempiric sciences, such as theology and metaphysics, the righteousness of which, as it seems, Steigel as well as Kant didn’t acknowledge.