How real is the phenomenal universe? Immanuel Kant states that space and time, the framework within which we observe the phenomenal universe are a priori projections of the mind. Just as we have categories of perception, so too do we have categories of thought. The empirical ego takes its rise from a Transcendent Self. By a study of the knowledge process itself, this Self the Beutsen Uberhaupt, the Transcendent Ego of Apperception, can be gradually isolated. His followers, like Fichte and others, boldly went forward and developed a new Idealism. Kant saw the moral law as a Transcendant Absolute.