He himself had come from the rationalistic school of Wolff, but had also been attracted to English empiricism and Rousseau, and Hume had" aroused him from his dogmatic slumbers." .

本人源自沃尔夫的理性主义学派，但也到英国经验主义和卢梭的吸引，而休谟则“唤醒教条主义的沉睡中”。