Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy: Life as the Schema of Freedom (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. 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 & Delta;o & Sigma; And The Eternal Form Of Philosophy -- Organic Unity And Nature's Redemption -- Ideas In Situ: Embedded Thought -- Ch. 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 Zentralerkennims -- Divinity As Freedom In Nature: The Priority Of Freedom Over Wisdom. Schelling's Eulogy And The System Of Philipp Matthaus Hahn (1739-1790) -- A Theology Of Life -- Procreative Logic: Hahn's Ordo Generations -- Systema Influxus: 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 -- Ch. 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 Selbsttatigkeit Of Nature. The Urform Of Reason: & Alpha; & Iota; & Sigma;u & Nu; & Alpha; & Pi; & Alpha; & Sigma; & Alpha; & Iota; & Epsilon; & Pi; & Iota; & Sigma; & Tau; & Eta; & Mu; & Alpha; & Iota; -- The Logical Visage: The Prinzipien Of Unity, Manifoldness, And Continuity -- The Idea Of The Maximum As The Analogon Of The Schema For The Prinzipien Der Vernunft -- The Transcendental Ideas: The Figurative Guarantors Of Reason's Extension -- Aesthetic Ideas, The Sublime, And The Internal Intuition Of The Supersensible Ground -- Genius: Autoepistemic Organ Of Nature? -- Ch. 4 The Timaeus Commentary -- To Seek The Divine In Nature -- Schelling's Commentary On The Timaeus -- The Divine Ideas Of Reason -- & Tau;o & Kappa; & Alpha; & Lambda;o & Nu; As The Ideal Of Unity And Completeness -- The World Soul As The Ideal Of The World: Organic Life As A Principle Of Systematic Unity -- Immanent Preestablished Harmony: The Condition Of Possibility Of Einheit -- The Ideas: Existence Is Not A Predicate -- The Threefold Form Of All Knowing -- Plato's Urform. First Epoch Productive Intuition Of Sensation Through The Restriction Of The Past -- Second Epoch Transition From Blind Intuition To Reflection Through The Restriction Of The Present -- Third Epoch From Reflection To The Absolute Act Of The Will -- The Derivation Of The Categories From Time -- Transition To Practical Philosophy: The Absolute Act Of The Will -- Time And Historicity -- The Tense Of The Absolute: Futurity -- The Endless Process. Bruce Matthews. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Schelling’s Organic Form of Philosophy 4 Contents 8 Preface 12 Acknowledgments 16 Notes on Sources and Abbreviations 18 1. Life as the Schema of Freedom: Schelling’s Organic Form of Philosophy 20 Subjectivism and the Annihilation of Nature 20 Immanent Reconstruction 29 Kant and the Categorical Imperative of Unity in Reason 36 Plato’s oδoσ and the Eternal Form of Philosophy 39 Organic Unity and Nature’s Redemption 46 Ideas in situ: Embedded Thought 54 2. Beginnings: Theosophy and Nature Divine 58 The Acculturation of a Prophet of Nature 58 The Discipline of Language and Actuality of the Past 59 The Tradition of Pietism: Freedom as the Unmediated Experience of the Divine 61 Halfway between Tradition and the Enlightenment: Theosophy and the Divinity of Nature 63 Oetinger’s Genetic Epistemology and the Unmediated Knowing of the Zentralerkenntnis 66 Divinity as Freedom in Nature: The Priority of Freedom over Wisdom 68 Schelling’s Eulogy and the System of Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1739–1790) 70 A Theology of Life 72 Procreative Logic: Hahn’s “ordo generativus” 73 Systema Influxus: The Immanent Harmony of the Trichotomy Body, Soul, and Mind 74 Life in the Anticipation of the Eschaton: The Prophet of Freedom and Nature Divine 77 Schelling’s Eulogy of Hahn (1790) and the Passing of the Flame of Prophecy 80 Prophet of the New Religion of Nature: Matter Spiritualized 83 3. The Question of Systematic Unity 88 Systematic Unity and the Urform of Reason 88 Life Is the Schema of Freedom: The Will of Desire and the Causality of Freedom 90 The Antinomy of Aesthetic Judgment 93 The Unity of the Ideas of Reason and the Transcendental Ideal as the Form of Forms 95 Transcendental Modality: Unity as Grundsatz of Reason 97 Weltbegriffe and Naturbegriffe: The Limits of a Mathematical World in the Face of the “Absolute Selbsttätigkeit” of Nature 99 The Urform of Reason: αι σuναπασαι επιστημαι 100 The Logical Visage: The Prinzipien of Unity, Manifoldness, and Continuity 103 The Idea of the Maximum as the Analogon of the Schema for the “Prinzipien der Vernunft” 105 The Transcendental Ideas: The Figurative Guarantors of Reason’s Extension 107 Aesthetic Ideas, the Sublime, and the Internal Intuition of the Supersensible Ground 111 Genius: Autoepistemic Organ of Nature? 118 4. The Timaeus Commentary 122 To Seek the Divine in Nature 122 Schelling’s Commentary on the Timaeus 131 The Divine Ideas of Reason 132 τo καλoν as the Ideal of Unity and Completeness 134 The World Soul as “The Ideal of the World”: Organic Life as Principle of Systematic Unity 138 Immanent Preestablished Harmony: The Condition of Possibility of Einheit 143 The Ideas: Existence Is Not a Predicate 147 The Threefold Form of All Knowing 149 Plato’s Urform 152 5. On the Possibility of a Form of All Philosophy: The Form Essay 156 Schelling’s Original Insight 156 The Urform of All Forms 160 Kant’s Progressive Method: The Removal of the Time Condition as the Condition of Comprehending an Absolute Magnitude 163 Reciprocal Establishment of the Urform 170 The Progressive Method of Disjunctive Identity 172 The Urform of Relation 173 Philological Justification 175 Epistemic Positionality and the Removal of the Time-Condition 180 Form of Being Unconditionally Posited: ‘I = I’ 186 Form of the Conditioned: NichtIch = Nicht Ich (Nichtich ≠ Ich) 187 Form of Conditionality Determined by Unconditionality = Consciousness 187 Disjunctive Identity 189 6. Freedom and the Construction of Philosophy 196 The Dynamic Process: Producing the System of Identity 196 The Self Versetzt: Freedom as the Postulate of Philosophy 208 The Method of Construction: Einbildung as the In-Eins-Bildung of Duality 210 Problematic: All Philosophy Is Construction 215 An Aesthetic Philosophy 218 The Construction of the Self: Theoretical Philosophy and Unconscious Nature 220 First Epoch: Productive Intuition of Sensation through the Restriction of the Past 222 Second Epoch: Transition from Blind Intuition to Reflection through the Restriction of the Present 224 Third Epoch: From Reflection to the Absolute Act of the Will 226 The Derivation of the Categories from Time 227 Transition to Practical Philosophy: The Absolute Act of the Will 228 Time and Historicity 232 The Tense of the Absolute: Futurity 234 The Endless Process 236 Appendix 242 Notes 244 Index 296 "The life and ideas of F.W.J. Schelling are often overlooked in favor of the more familiar Kant, Fichte, or Hegel. What these three lack, however, is Schelling's evolving view of philosophy. Where others saw the possibility for a single, unflinching system of thought, Schelling was unafraid to question the foundations of his own ideas. In this book, Bruce Matthews argues that the organic view of philosophy is the fundamental idea behind Schelling's thought. Focusing in particular on Schelling's early writings, especially on Plato and Kant, Matthews explores Schelling's idea that any philosophical system must be perspectival and formed by each individual student of philosophy, providing a unique new understanding of an important and often-overlooked figure in the history of philosophy."--Publisher description The life and ideas of F.W.J. Schelling are often overlooked in favor of the more familiar Kant, Fichte, or Hegel. What these three lack, however, is Schelling's evolving view of philosophy. Where others saw the possibility for a single, unflinching system of thought, Schelling was unafraid to question the foundations of his own ideas. In this book, Bruce Matthews argues that the organic view of philosophy is the fundamental idea behind Schelling's thought. Focusing in particular on Schelling's early writings, especially on Plato and Kant, Matthews explores Schelling's idea that any philosophical system must be perspectival and formed by each individual student of philosophy, providing a unique new understanding to an important and often overlooked figure in the history of philosophy.