Maimon is a true follower of Kant in that he has drawn the conclusions of critical philosophy with a systematic consistency unsurpassed by any of his contemporaries. In addition, he follows in the tradition of Leibniz, apparent not only in his adoption of certain of Leibniz" doctrines, but also in his realization of the close connection between philosophy and the natural sciences. Of his contemporaries only Beck can be classed with those rationalist thinkers whose philosophic orientation was towards mathematics and the natural sciences; the great speculative system-builders of the post-Kantian period were oriented towards the humanistic branches of knowledge.