Keith R. Peterson is Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Michael's College and Champlain College.
Acknowledgments
vii
Abbreviations
ix
Translator's Introduction
xi
The Primacy of the Postulate
xiii
From Postulate to Deduction
xviii
Transcendental Deductions and The Idea of Nature
xxii
Logogenesis, Construction, and Potency in the Philosophy of Nature
xxvii
Conclusion
xxxii
Works Cited
xxxiii
Translator's Note xxxvii
Title Page of Schelling 1799 Edition
1
(2)
Foreword to Schelling 1799 Edition
3
(2)
Outline of the Whole
5
(8)
First Division
13
(58)
I. The Unconditioned in Nature
13
(6)
II. The Original Qualities and Actants in Nature
19
(9)
III. Actants and Their Combinations
28
(7)
IV. Inhibition and Stages of Development
35
(18)
V. Deduction of the Dynamic Series of Stages
53
(18)
Second Division
71
(34)
First System
73
(1)
Second System
74
(4)
Third Possible System
78
(16)
Conclusions
94
(11)
Third Division
105
(88)
I. On the Concept of Excitability
106
(7)
II. Deduction of Organic Functions from the Concept of Excitability
113
(28)
III. The Graduated Series of Stages in Nature
141
(31)
Appendix to Chapter III
158
(14)
IV. General Theory of the Chemical Process
172
(15)
V. The Theater of the Dynamic Organization of the Universe
187
(6)
Introduction to the Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, or, On the Concept of Speculative Physics and the Internal Organization of a System of this Science (1799)
193
(40)
§1. What we call Philosophy of Nature is a Necessary Science in the System of Knowledge
193
(1)
§2. Scientific Character of the Philosophy of Nature
194
(1)
§3. Philosophy of Nature is Speculative Physics
195
(1)
§4. On the Possibility of Speculative Physics
196
(3)
§5. On a System of Speculative Physics in General
199
(2)
§6. Internal Organization of the System of Speculative Physics
201
(32)
Appendix: Scientific Authors
233
(6)
Notes
239
(10)
English-German Glossary
249
(4)
German-English Glossary
253
(4)
Page Concordance
257
(4)
Index
261
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