Andrei Belyi's interpretation of Kant in Istoriia stanovleniia samosoznaiushchei dushi (ISSD) is the focus of this article. Belyi sees the main manifestation of the Self-consciousness Soul in the fact that Kant constructed his philosophical system solely out of his own resources without adhering to tradition, as well as in the "ingenious" question "How is pure science of nature possible?" But Belyi harshly criticises the abstraction and subjectivity of Kant's theory of knowledge together with its limited solutions, as they do not take the development of humanity into consideration. Nevertheless, he highlights a way to facilitate a breakthrough to self-awareness within Kant's practical philosophy, and identifies the imperative character of practical reason with the power of the Self-consciousness Soul. He believes the Kantian "scheme" to be the true aim of knowledge, an aim which the philosopher himself had not adequately managed to realise. In Belyi's theory of cognition, Kant's scheme is of fundamental importance. He transforms it into a dynamic concept, an "imaginative notion" identified with Goethe's concept of prototype.
