Matthews Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy

Life as the Schema of Freedom
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3412-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matthews, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources and Abbreviations

1. Life as the Schema of Freedom: Schelling’s

Organic Form of Philosophy
Subjectivism and the Annihilation of Nature
Immanent Reconstruction
Kant and the Categorical Imperative of Unity in Reason
Plato’s o(do/j and the Eternal Form of Philosophy
Organic Unity and Nature’s Redemption
Ideas in situ: Embedded Thought

2. Beginnings: Theosophy and Nature Divine

The Acculturation of a Prophet of Nature
The Discipline of Language and Actuality of the Past
The Tradition of Pietism: Freedom as the Unmediated
Experience of the Divine
Halfway between Tradition and the Enlightenment: Theosophy and the Divinity of Nature
Oetinger’s Genetic Epistemology and the Unmediated Knowing of the Zentralerkenntnis
Divinity as Freedom in Nature: The Priority of Freedom over Wisdom
Schelling’s Eulogy and the System of Philipp Matthäus Hahn(1739–1790)
A Theology of Life
Procreative Logic: Hahn’s “ordo generativus”
Systema Infl uxus: The Immanent Harmony of the Trichotomy of Body, Soul, and Mind
Life in the Anticipation of the Eschaton: The Prophet of Freedom and Nature Divine
Schelling’s Eulogy of Hahn(1790)and the Passing of the Flame of Prophecy
Prophet of the New Religion of Nature: Matter Spiritualized

3. The Question of Systematic Unity

Systematic Unity and the Urform of Reason
Life Is the Schema of Freedom: The Will of Desire and the Causality of Freedom
The Antinomy of Aesthetic Judgment
The Unity of the Ideas of Reason and the Transcendental Ideal as the Form of Forms
Transcendental Modality: Unity as Grundsatz of Reason
Weltbegriffe and Naturbegriffe: The Limits of a Mathematical World in the Face of the “Absolute Selbsttätigkeit” of Nature
The Urform of Reason: ai( suna/pasai e)pisth=mai
The Logical Visage: The Prinzipien of Unity, Manifoldness, and Continuity
The Idea of the Maximum as the Analogon of the Schemafor the “Prinzipien der Vernunft”
The Transcendental Ideas: The Figurat

Über Autor(innen)

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.