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Full Idea
Schelling never lost his youthful conviction that any metaphysics had to be an explication of the 'absolute' as something that went beyond both subjective and objective points of view.
Gist of Idea
Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints
Source
report of Friedrich Schelling (Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature [1799]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 12
Book Ref
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.325
A Reaction
Even for a scientific and analytic modern philosopher there must be a target of an ideal account that includes human subjectivity within an objective view of the world. Even Mysterians like McGinn would like that.
Related Idea
Idea 22032 Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective [Fichte, by Pinkard]
| 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] |