Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy : Life as the Schema of Freedom
, by Matthews, BruceNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781438434117 | 1438434111
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/1/2011
Locates in Schelling a new understanding of our relation to nature in philosophy.
Bruce Matthews is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bard High School Early College. He is translator of Schelling's The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures, also published by SUNY Press.
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Notes on Sources and Abbreviations | p. xvii |
Life as the Schema of Freedom: Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy | p. 1 |
Subjectivism and the Annihilation of Nature | p. 1 |
Immanent Reconstruction | p. 10 |
Kant and the Categorical Imperative of Unity in Reason | p. 17 |
Plato's o¿ó¿ and the Eternal Form of Philosophy | p. 20 |
Organic Unity and Nature's Redemption | p. 27 |
Ideas in situ: Embedded Thought | p. 35 |
Beginnings: Theosophy and Nature Divine | p. 39 |
The Acculturation of a Prophet of Nature | p. 39 |
The Discipline of Language and Actuality of the Past | p. 40 |
The Tradition of Pietism: Freedom as the Unmediated Experience of the Divine | p. 42 |
Halfway between Tradition and the Enlightenment: Theosophy and the Divinity of Nature | p. 44 |
Oetinger's Genetic Epistemology and the Unmediated Knowing of the Zentralerkenntnis | p. 47 |
Divinity as Freedom in Nature: The Priority of Freedom over Wisdom | p. 49 |
Schelling's Eulogy and the System of Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1739-1790) | p. 51 |
A Theology of Life | p. 53 |
Procreative Logic: Hahn's ôordo generativusö | p. 54 |
Systema Influxus: The Immanent Harmony of the Trichotomy of Body, Soul, and Mind | p. 55 |
Life in the Anticipation of the Eschaton: The Prophet of Freedom and Nature Divine | p. 58 |
Schelling's Eulogy of Hahn (1790) and the Passing of the Flame of Prophecy | p. 61 |
Prophet of the New Religion of Nature: Matter Spiritualized | p. 64 |
The Question of Systematic Unity | p. 69 |
Systematic Unity and the Urform of Reason | p. 69 |
Life Is the Schema of Freedom: The Will of Desire and the Causality of Freedom | p. 71 |
The Antinomy of Aesthetic Judgment | p. 74 |
The Unity of the Ideas of Reason and the Transcendental Ideal as the Form of Forms | p. 76 |
Transcendental Modality: Unity as Grundsatz of Reason | p. 78 |
Weltbegriffe and Naturbegriffe: The Limits of a Mathematical World in the Face of the ôAbsolute Selbsttätigkeitö of Nature | p. 80 |
The Urform of Reason: ¿$$$ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿i¿¿¿¿¿i | p. 81 |
The Logical Visage: The Prinzipien of Unity, Manifoldness, and Continuity | p. 84 |
The Idea of the Maximum as the Analogon of the Schema for the ôPrinzipien der Vernunftö | p. 86 |
The Transcendental Ideas: The Figurative Guarantors of Reason's Extension | p. 88 |
Aesthetic Ideas, the Sublime, and the Internal Intuition of the Supersensible Ground | p. 92 |
Genius: Autoepistemic Organ of Nature? | p. 99 |
The Timaeus Commentary | p. 103 |
To Seek the Divine in Nature | p. 103 |
Schelling's Commentary on the Timaeus | p. 112 |
The Divine Ideas of Reason | p. 113 |
¿ò k¿¿ó¿ as the Ideal of Unity and Completeness | p. 115 |
The World Soul as ôThe Ideal of the Worldö: Organic Life as a Principle of Systematic Unity | p. 119 |
Immanent Preestablished Harmony: The Condition of Possibility of Einheit | p. 124 |
The Ideas: Existence Is Not a Predicate | p. 128 |
The Threefold Form of All Knowing | p. 130 |
Plato's Urform | p. 133 |
On the Possibility of a Form of All Philosophy: The Form Essay | p. 137 |
Schelling's Original Insight | p. 137 |
The Urform of All Forms | p. 141 |
Kant's Progressive Method: The Removal of the Time Condition as the Condition of Comprehending an Absolute Magnitude | p. 144 |
Reciprocal Establishment of the Urform | p. 151 |
The Progressive Method of Disjunctive Identity | p. 153 |
The Urform of Relation | p. 154 |
Philological Justification | p. 156 |
Epistemic Positionality and the Removal of the Time-Condition | p. 161 |
Form of Being Unconditionally Posited: 'I = I' | p. 167 |
Form of the Conditioned: Nichtich = Nicht Ich (Nichtich ≠ Ich) | p. 168 |
Form of Conditionality Determined by Unconditionality = Consciousness | p. 168 |
Disjunctive Identity | p. 170 |
Freedom and the Construction of Philosophy | p. 177 |
The Dynamic Process: Producing the System of Identity | p. 177 |
The Self Versetzt: Freedom as the Postulate of Philosophy | p. 189 |
The Method of Construction: Einbildung as the In-Eins-Bildung of Duality | p. 191 |
Problematic: All Philosophy Is Construction | p. 196 |
An Aesthetic Philosophy | p. 199 |
The Construction of the Self: Theoretical Philosophy and Unconscious Nature | p. 201 |
First Epoch: Productive Intuition of Sensation through the Restriction of the Past | p. 203 |
Second Epoch: Transition from Blind Intuition to Reflection through the Restriction of the Present | p. 205 |
Third Epoch: From Reflection to the Absolute Act of the Will | p. 207 |
The Derivation of the Categories from Time | p. 208 |
Transition to Practical Philosophy: The Absolute Act of the Will | p. 209 |
Time and Historicity | p. 213 |
The Tense of the Absolute: Futurity | p. 215 |
The Endless Process | p. 217 |
Appendix ôEulogy Sung at Hahn's Graveö | p. 223 |
Notes | p. 225 |
Index | p. 277 |
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