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Single Idea 21925

[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism ]

Full Idea

(Like Schopenhauer) Schelling understood the Absolute - spirit rather than will - to manifest itself as nature in which man evolves with self-consciousness.

Gist of Idea

For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves

Source

report of Friedrich Schelling (Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature [1799]) by Peter B. Lewis - Schopenhauer 4

Book Ref

Lewis, Peter B.: 'Schopenhauer' [Reaktion Books 2012], p.96

A Reaction

The influence of Spinoza seems strong here. Is his Absolute just Spinoza's 'God'?

The 4 ideas from 'Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature'

21925 For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves [Schelling, by Lewis,PB]
22045 Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints [Schelling, by Pinkard]
22057 Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, by Bowie]
22031 Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them [Schelling, by Pinkard]