Questions tagged [schelling]
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775 – 1854) was a German philosopher. He was associated with German idealism.
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Was Luhmann influenced by Schelling?
Just wondering. I know little about Schelling and was reading a commentary by Forster on his philosophy of nature. Some of the ideas, such as "irritability" and production of the Umwelt ...
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Where does Schelling discuss the "bad" or spurious infinity?
I read in my Hegel Dictionary that Schelling also discusses a version of the "bad infinity" and gives as an example the repayment of debt by issuing more debt at the Bank of England.
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How influential was "galvanism" on philosophy, and was it rightfully so?
I'm currently reading F. W. Schelling's "First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature". Schelling, a late 18th-early 19th century philosopher, was very well-informed about contemporary ...
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"First Outline" - does Schelling contradict himself in the Sun-Earth relation?
In "First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature", Second Division, Schelling tries to prove that the phenomenon that the Sun creates via the chemical action on Earth is light. During that ...
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Was there an influence of Schellings Naturphilosophie on Einstein?
Darrigol in Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein writes:
In Germany, a few marginal followers of Schellings Naturphilosophie criticised the general notion of fluids acting at a distance and ...
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Is Schopenhauer's World Will generally the same as Schelling’s Absolute Self?
Schopenhauer obviously learns from the German Idealists tradition of assuming an unconscious force acting on the world (or "underneath" it), but Schopenhauer's take is that this force is a blind will, ...
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What is the difference between Schelling and Hegel's philosophies
Two of the biggest German Idealism movement, Schelling and Hegel, have a very similar line of thought. I was wondering a simple question (with probably a long and complex question): What is the ...
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Schelling: from where, or how exactly, do the a priori ideas come?
I'm reading Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism, and in the end of the 3rd part (the end of the theoretical philosophy) schelling disproves the idea that a priori ideas are inherent in us ...
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Have anyone found a good solution to Kant's dualistic approach to consciousness?
Kant, in his studies of transcendental idealism, made the "illogical gap" between theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, at the end of theoretical study, by requiring the contemplation of ...
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Overview of Schelling's philosophy
I am having a hard time understanding Schelling. What should I read in order to make this experience not as nonsensical as it currently is? Is there any overview of his philosophy that will ...
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Did Schelling have a theory of force?
I read the following quote somewhere:
Inspired by the romantic spirit of a 'global spirit' and the understanding that all forces are the manifestation of a unified force; Schelling, Faraday & ...
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Schelling's Organic Form Philosophy. Dynamic Systems
Below is an extract from Schelling's Organic Form Philosophy by Bruce Matthews. Two requests:
I'm completely new to philosophy and trying make sure I'm understanding the fundamentals; jumped in the ...
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Why does Schelling characterise his philosophy as Positive as opposed to the Negative Philosophy of Kant and Hegel?
According to the Routledges History of Philosophy, Vol 6 - The Age of German Idealism, Schelling
had begun to characterize his new standpoint as “positive philosophy,” in contradistinction to the ...
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What are the limitations of Hegels Dialectic that Schelling identified?
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Marx did not need to invert historical idealism because Schelling had already shown the limitations of the dialectic process
Hegels dialectic, roughly, is manifested in ...
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How can Schelling’s philosophy as a whole be characterized?
F. W. J. Schelling’s thought is undergoing an exciting renaissance and reawakening today, which has caused a reconsideration of German Idealism and his influence on the thought of Marx, Freud, Bergson,...
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