 In these reflections, Windelband seeks to integrate two main thoughts: First, the idea that philosophy is a reflection of its time and age and, second, the conviction that the history of philosophy has systematic significance. Windelband finds both thoughts in Hegel’s approach to the history of philosophy. Mirroring Hegel’s famous dictum that “philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought”, he speaks of philosophy the “self-consciousness of developing cultural life” (1909: 4). He also applauds Hegel’s “deep insight” that the history of philosophy realizes reason and thus has intrinsic relevance for systematic philosophy (1883: 133). Windelband thinks of history as the “organon of philosophy” (1905: 184), as a guide to the absolute values that the critical method seeks to reveal.