Rene Descartes tried to explain how he himself was the final source of predication when he said 'Cogito ergo sum.' But soon enough found that he could say nothing about himself except in terms of God and the world which he had first excluded. Mindful of the failure of Descartes, Kant sought for his self-identity by asserting his freedom from all dependence upon the space-time world or of the laws of morality as revealed by God. But then he found that his freedom was merely a negative freedom. As a result he could not find himself. His noumenal realm is free but free is an unintelligible vacuum.
Cornelius Van Til — Is God dead?
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