The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy

The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy
Author: G.W.F. Hegel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1988-03-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438406290

In this essay, Hegel attempted to show how Fichte's Science of Knowledge was an advance from the position of Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason, and how Schelling (and incidentally Hegel himself) had made a further advance from the position of Fichte. Hegel finds the idealism of Fichte too abstractly subjective and formalistic, and he tries to show how Schelling's philosophy of nature is the remedy for these weaknesses. But the most important philosophical content of the essay is probably to be found in his general introduction to these critical efforts where he deals with a number of problems about philosophical method in a way which is of general interest to philosophers, and not merely interesting to those who accept the Hegelian "dialectic method" which grew out of these first beginnings. Finally, the Difference essay is important in the development of "Nature-Philosophy" as a movement in the history of science.

The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling

The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling
Author: J. G. Fichte
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2012-03-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438440197

The disputes of philosophers provide a place to view their positions and arguments in a tightly focused way, and also in a manner that is infused with human temperaments and passions. Fichte and Schelling had been perceived as "partners" in the cause of Criticism or transcendental idealism since 1794, but upon Fichte's departure from Jena in 1799, each began to perceive a drift in their fundamental interests and allegiances. Schelling's philosophy of nature seemed to move him toward a realistic philosophy, while Fichte's interests in the origin of personal consciousness, intersubjectivity, and the ultimate determination of the agent's moral will moved him to explore what he called "faith" in one popular text, or a theory of an intelligible world. This volume brings together the letters the two philosophers exchanged between 1800 and 1802 and the texts that each penned with the other in mind.

Hegel: Faith and Knowledge

Hegel: Faith and Knowledge
Author: G.W.F. Hegel
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1988-03-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780887068263

As the title indicates, Faith and Knowledge deals with the relation between religious faith and cognitive beliefs, between the truth of religion and the truths of philosophy and science. Hegel is guided by his understanding of the historical situation: the individual alienated from God, nature, and community; and he is influenced by the new philosophy of Schelling, the Spinozistic Philosophy of Identity with its superb vision of the inner unity of God, nature, and rational man. Through a brilliant discussion of the philosophies of Kant, Fichte, and other luminaries of the period, Hegel shows that the time has finally come to give philosophy the authentic shape it has always been trying to reach, a shape in which philosophy’s old conflicts with religion on the one hand and with the sciences on the other are suspended once for all. This is the first English translation of this important essay. Professor H. S. Harris offers a historical and analytic commentary to the text and Professor Cerf offers an introduction to the general reader which focuses on the concept of intellectual intuition and on the difference between authentic and inauthentic philosophy.

The Suspension of Reason in Hegel and Schelling

The Suspension of Reason in Hegel and Schelling
Author: Christopher Lauer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2010-05-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441176233

This unique work analyzes the crisis in modern society, building on the ideas of the Frankfurt School thinkers. Emphasizing social evolution and learning processes, it argues that crisis is mediated by social class conflicts and collective learning, the results of which are embodied in constitutional and public law. First, the work outlines a new categorical framework of critical theory in which it is conceived as a theory of crisis. It shows that the Marxist focus on economy and on class struggle is too narrow to deal with the range of social conflicts within modern society, and posits that a crisis of legitimization is at the core of all crises. It then discusses the dialectic of revolutionary and evolutionary developmental processes of modern society and its legal system. This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society by a leading scholar in the field provides a new approach to critical theory that will appeal to anyone studying political sociology, political theory, and law.

Interpreting Schelling

Interpreting Schelling
Author: Lara Ostaric
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1107018927

The first volume on Schelling in English exploring the study of the history of philosophy and core systematic philosophical issues.

Schelling and the End of Idealism

Schelling and the End of Idealism
Author: Dale E. Snow
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791427453

This comprehensive, general introduction to Schelling's philosophy shows that it was Schelling who set the agenda for German idealism and defined the term of its characteristic problems.

Fichte's Vocation of Man

Fichte's Vocation of Man
Author: Daniel Breazeale
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438447639

New perspectives on Fichte’s best known and most popular work. Written for a general audience during a period of intense controversy in the German philosophical community, J. G. Fichte’s short book The Vocation of Man (1800) is both an introduction to and a defense of his philosophical system, and is one of the best-known contributions to German Idealism. This collection of new essays reflects a wide and instructive variety of philosophical and hermeneutic approaches, which combine to cast new light upon Fichte’s familiar text. The contributors highlight some of the overlooked complexities and implications of The Vocation of Man and situate it firmly within the intellectual context within which it was originally written, relating it to the positions of Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Schlegel, Jacobi, and others. In addition, the essays relate the text to issues of contemporary concern such as the limits of language, the character of rational agency, the problem of evil, the relation of theoretical knowledge to practical belief, and the dialectic of judgment.

Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art

Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art
Author: Devin Zane Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2010-12-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441193693

Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810. Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling's idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant's and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw's careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom.