The Influence of Kant on Chopin House Thought

He is perhaps the first, well certainly the first major Western philosopher to really know about Indian philosophy. And to really find very deep points of resemblance and agreement with it. Such a... Well, he read a version of the Upanishads when he was quite young. And it turned out to be a sort of transformative book for him. Later on he discovered quite a lot about Buddhism and found its doctrines about suffering and the change of consciousness that you need in order to redeem life. He found that was actually very sympathetic to his own views. It was also influenced by Plato, the idea that there's an eternal timeless reality behind the world of our experience which he also found very sympathetic.