Lipps yana daya daga cikin malaman jami'o'i na Jamus mafi tasiri a lokacinsa, yana janyo hankalin dalibai da yawa daga wasu ƙasashe. Lipps ya damu sosai game da ra'ayoyin fasaha da kuma kyan gani, yana mai da hankali ga yawancin falsafarsa game da irin waɗannan batutuwa. Daga cikin masu sha'awarsa shi ne Sigmund Freud. Lipps a lokacin shine babban mai goyon bayan ra'ayin Unconscious. Ya karbi ra'ayoyin Robert Vischer game da tausayi ko tausayi mai tausayi (Einfühlung, wanda aka fassara shi a zahiri zuwa "ji-in"). Wannan ma'anar jin dadi na jin dadi yana samun daidaituwa a cikin falsafar ilimin lissafi. Daga baya a rayuwa, Lipps ya karbi wasu ra'ayoyi daga Edmund Husserl.
Edmund Husserl