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Full Idea
Schelling made the image of the 'organism' central to his conception of nature, arguing that merely mechanical processes could never produce 'life' (as a self-producing, self-sustaining, self-directing process).
Gist of Idea
Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them
Source
report of Friedrich Schelling (Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature [1799]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 08
Book Ref
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.204
A Reaction
At that date this seems a reasonable claim, but subsequent biochemistry has undermined it.
| 20957 | We don't choose our characters, yet we still claim credit for the actions our characters perform [Schelling] |
| 20956 | Ultimately, all being is willing. The nature of primal being is the same as the nature of willing [Schelling] |
| 22075 | Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling] |
| 22074 | We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling] |
| 22076 | Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling] |
| 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] |
| 22072 | Schelling always affirmed the absolute status of freedom [Schelling, by Courtine] |
| 22073 | The basis of philosophy is the Self prior to experience, where it is the essence of freedom [Schelling] |