Browse — tag · naturphilosophie
Tag: naturphilosophie
Pages tagged with naturphilosophie.
16 pages
-
Anarchy in the Ground (das Regellose im Grunde)
Schelling's name in the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809) for the irreducible non-rule (das Regellose) that persists in the ground even after the eternal act of self-revelation. The canonical passage (De…
-
Barbarian Principle
Schelling's concept of the irreducible wild essence at the heart of existence — "could be stifled, but never suppressed" (Ages of the World). Appropriated by Merleau-Ponty as être sauvage (wild being) and esprit sauvage (wild mind), the ba…
-
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
German philosopher (1775-1854), founder of Naturphilosophie. In Knight's reading, Schelling is the decisive — and insufficiently acknowledged — influence on Merleau-Ponty's late ontology. Where the standard reception traces Merleau-Ponty's…
-
Ground / Existence Distinction (Schelling)
Schelling's central original distinction, articulated in the "Deduction from the Philosophy of Nature" section of the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809): "being in so far as it exists" (Existenz) vs. "bei…
-
Jakob von Uexküll
Estonian-German biologist (1864–1944), founder of theoretical biology and biosemiotics, principal scientific source for Merleau-Ponty's 1956–58 Nature courses (Course 1: Animality, Course 2: Animality, the Human Body, Transition to Culture…
-
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, literary critic, and pioneering philosopher of history and language (1744–1803). Three roles in Schelling's 1809 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom: (1) the author of God. Some Co…
-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, novelist, natural-philosopher (1749–1832); cardinal figure of Weimar Klassik; his works span lyric poetry, drama (Faust I/II), the Bildungsroman (Wilhelm Meister), the philosophical novel (Die Wahlverwandtschaften), and natura…
-
Leben (Life, Hegel — logical category)
Das Leben — Life — is the first concrete shape of die Idee in the Doctrine of the Concept (GW 12 pp. 179–198). Crucially: Hegel insists that the logical concept of Life is to be distinguished from Naturleben (the life of nature, treated in…
-
Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism
Author(s): Taylor Knight Year: 2024 Type: Book (Edinburgh University Press, New Perspectives in Ontology series) Foreword: Emmanuel Falque
-
Natural Symbolism
Nature itself operates symbolically, and human symbols are a "second physis" that repeats natural symbolics rather than imposing external meaning. Knight argues that Merleau-Ponty's late philosophy, read through Schelling's Naturphilosophi…
-
Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1956–60)
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Compiler/editor (French): Dominique Séglard Translator: Robert Vallier Original French: La Nature: Notes, cours du Collège de France (Éditions du Seuil, 1995) English edition: Northwestern University Press, 20…
-
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith
Author: F. W. J. Schelling · Year: 1809 (Love & Schmidt translation 2006, SUNY Press) · Type: Book (treatise plus appended Supplementary Texts)
-
Raymond Ruyer
French philosopher (1902–1987), specialist in the philosophy of biology and animal behavior. In the wiki's context, Merleau-Ponty's primary source for the animal and embryological material in the 1954–55 Institution course. MP follows Ruye…
-
Taylor Knight
Author of Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism (Edinburgh University Press, New Perspectives in Ontology series, 2024; foreword by Emmanuel Falque) — the wiki's primary source for the elemental-ontology…
-
Ungrund (Schelling / Boehme)
The non-ground — Schelling's most distinctive move in the closing "All-Unity of Love" of the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). The Ungrund is "the absolute considered merely in itself" prior to the dual…
-
What is Merleau-Ponty's relation to Ruyer's finalism?
A split. Merleau-Ponty in the 1954–55 Institution course follows raymond-ruyer's 1953 Les Temps Modernes article "Les conceptions nouvelles de l'instinct" closely for data — Lorenz on imprinting, Tinbergen on supra-normal stimuli, Gesell o…