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Full Idea
Schelling's philosophy of nature aims to connect nature's 'unconscious productivity' with the mind's 'conscious productivity'.
Gist of Idea
Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind
Source
report of Friedrich Schelling (Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature [1799]) by Andrew Bowie - German Philosophy: a very short introduction 3
Book Ref
Bowie,Andrew: 'German Philosophy: very short intro' [OUP 2010], p.42
A Reaction
If you have a fairly active view of nature (as Leibniz did), then this is a promising line. I like the unpopular view that the modern idea of spontaneous 'powers' in nature is applicable to explanations of mind.
Related Idea
Idea 22056 Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]
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] |