First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

by Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von; Peterson, Keith R.

• ISBN13: 9780791460030
• ISBN10: 0791460037
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

Keith R. Peterson is Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Michael's College and Champlain College.

Table of Contents

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