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Interpreting Schelling's philosophy is regarded as difficult because of its evolving nature. Schelling's thought in the main has been neglected, especially in the English-speaking world. An important factor in this was the ascendancy of Hegel, whose mature works portray Schelling as a mere footnote in the development of idealism.
The Idea requires something that exceeds it, which Schelling calls das reine Daß—the pure ‘that’, the sheer facticity of anything’s existing at all—as its basis. I say ‘basis’, since the Idea does not admit of anything, let alone the pure ‘that’, as a rational ground. This basis is ‘un-pre-thinkable’.
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Feb 13, 2016 · A key figure in German Idealism, and a major influence on several late nineteenth century thinkers and movements, including Kierkegaard and Marx, Schelling has been, since the mid-twentieth century, the most neglected of the idealist philosophers and possibly also the least understood.
Schelling’s later thought is one of the most difficult areas of modern philosophy and until recently has remained practically unexplored. In the nineteenth century, apart from the purely expository books of Konstantin Franz 1 and Kuno Fischer, 2 only Eduard von Hartmann investigated in a short essay 3 the relation of Schelling’s later ...
- Else-Rahel Freund
- 1979
Schelling’s philosophy has come to be interpreted and understood as a philosophy of affirmation and a philosophy of the exuberance of life as against petrified system of concepts.
conviction which gives rise to Schelling's positive philosophy. This serves to explain, not only why contemporary philos. ophers do, but also why they should, take Schelling seriously. Schelling is not only the first in a long line of post-idealistic meta. physicians, but he also possesses unique qualifications. For hav.
Nov 14, 2022 · Schelling’s investigation into the topic of the system and the absolute reads, not as a disjunctive question of life or death, but as a conjunctive question of death and life. This order and also their conjunction have a specific meaning that sheds light on the whole of Schelling’s philosophy.
