Friedrich Schelling Quotes on Knowledge
Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism (1800) and the broader development of his thought across the early identity-philosophy and the late positive philosophy of revelation supply one of the most ambitious epistemological programs of post-Kantian German Idealism. The principal early thesis is the parallelism between the philosophy of nature and the transcendental philosophy of the self-conscious subject: each ascends, by its own dialectical route, to the absolute identity in which the subject-object distinction characteristic of finite cognition is overcome. The late lectures on the philosophy of mythology and the philosophy of revelation — partly directed against the Hegelian dialectical philosophy that had displaced Schelling's earlier framework — develop the distinction between negative philosophy (which works out the rational structure of what can be conceived) and positive philosophy (which engages with the historical and existential reality that exceeds rational conception).
Quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Schelling:
“History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Schelling:
“The first step into philosophy is to know oneself.”
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“What is Europe really but a sterile trunk which owes everything to oriental grafts?”
Letter of 18 December 1806 to Windischmann, quoted by Rene Gerard, L'Orient et la pensée romantique allemande, Paris 1963,, p. 213. quoted in Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe p. 195 -
“If there is to be any philosophy at all, this contradiction must be resolved – and the solution of this problem, or answer to the question: how can we think both of Presentations as conforming to objects, and objects as conforming to presentations? is, not the first, but the highest task of transcendental philosophy.”
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“It is easy to see that this problem can be solved neither in theoretical nor in practical philosophy, but only in a higher discipline, which is the link that combines them, and neither theoretical nor practical, but both at once.”
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“All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.”
Alle Regeln, die man dem Studieren vorschreiben könnte, fassen sich in der einen zusammen: Lerne nur, um selbst zu schaffen. -
“On University Studies (1803), Third Lecture . Cited by Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD (Basingstoke: Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), p. vi.”
Alle Regeln, die man dem Studieren vorschreiben könnte, fassen sich in der einen zusammen: Lerne nur, um selbst zu schaffen.