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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…
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German post-Kantian philosopher (1788–1860) whose system — laid out in Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1818, expanded 1844) — articulates a metaphysics of the Will (the thing-in-itself underlying all phenomena), an ethics of compassion…
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Evil as Positive Reversal (Schelling)
Schelling's distinctive theory of evil from the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809): evil is not privation (Augustine, Leibniz) and not mere sensuality ("Monotheletism") but the positive reversal of the in…
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
German philosopher (1743–1819), the principal anti-rationalist opponent in Schelling's 1809 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and the initiator of the Pantheismusstreit (1785). Jacobi's claim that the only cons…
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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…
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German idealist philosopher (1762–1814), author of the Wissenschaftslehre (1794 and multiple revisions), the Grundlage des Naturrechts (1796), the Reden an die deutsche Nation (1808). On the wiki, Fichte enters as a foil in Hegel's WdL: (i…
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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)