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 Reference
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]