Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy: Life As the Schema of Freedom

by Matthews, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9781438434100
• ISBN10: 1438434103
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-02
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Locates in Schelling a new understanding of our relation to nature in philosophy.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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 ¿¿¿¿ and the Eternal Form of Philosophy	p. 20
Organic Unity and Nature's Redemption	p. 27
Ideas in situ: Embedded Thought	p. 33
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. 33
Procreative Logic: Hahn's "ordo generativus"	p. 54
Systemn lnfluxus: 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 "Absolute Selbsttcitigkeit" of Nature	p. 80
The Urform of Reason: ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿	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 "Prinzipien der Vernunft"	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 ¿¿¿óvas the Ideal of Unity and Completeness	p. 115
The World Soul as "The Ideal of the World": 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: Nichtlch = 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 Versefzf: Freedom as the Postulate of Philosophy	p. 189
The Method of Construction: Linbildung 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 "Eulogy Sung at Hahn's Grave"	p. 223
Notes	p. 225
Index	p. 277
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