Like most of his contemporaries, including Friedrich Theodor Vischer, he began with Hegelianism, but subsequently developed a system of his own.
像他同时代的大多数人（如弗里德里希·西奥多·维舍尔）一样，策勒最初拥护黑格尔主义，但后来发展出一套他自己的体系。