 In the highly polarized German philosophical community in the 1790s, Maimon’s intellectual allegiances remained rather ambiguous. In a letter of 1791, Maimon had written to Kant that while he found the skeptical part of the Critique of Pure Reason wholly convincing, he harbored doubts about the more dogmatic aspects of Kant’s system. Kant, of course, viewed Maimon not as an ally, but as the best of his critics — it remains an open question whether Maimon saw himself as fundamentally a friend or foe of the critical philosophy. At the very least, however, Maimon’s criticisms of the Critique aim at the core of Kant’s transcendental idealism, in particular because they engage with what Maimon sees as an internal problem for Kant’s system.