Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy: Life as the Schema of Freedom

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Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Notes on Sources and Abbreviations xvii Chapter 1 Life as the Schema of Freedom: Schelling’s 1 Organic Form of Philosophy Subjectivism and the Annihilation of Nature 1 Immanent Reconstruction 10 Kant and the Categorical Imperative of Unity in Reason 17 Plato’s o(do/j and the Eternal Form of Philosophy 20 Organic Unity and Nature’s Redemption 27 Ideas in situ: Embedded Thought 35 Chapter 2 Beginnings: Theosophy and Nature Divine 39 The Acculturation of a Prophet of Nature 39 The Discipline of Language and Actuality of the Past 40 The Tradition of Pietism: Freedom as the Unmediated 42 Experience of the Divine Halfway between Tradition and the Enlightenment: 44 Theosophy and the Divinity of Nature Oetinger’s Genetic Epistemology and the Unmediated Knowing 47 of the Zentralerkenntnis Divinity as Freedom in Nature: The Priority of Freedom 49 over Wisdom Schelling’s Eulogy and the System of Philipp Matthäus Hahn 51 (1739–1790) A Theology of Life 53 Procreative Logic: Hahn’s “ordo generativus” 54 vii Systema Influxus: The Immanent Harmony of the Trichotomy 55 of Body, Soul, and Mind Life in the Anticipation of the Eschaton: The Prophet of Freedom 58 and Nature Divine Schelling’s Eulogy of Hahn (1790) and the Passing of the Flame of Prophecy 61 Prophet of the New Religion of Nature: Matter Spiritualized 64 Chapter 3 The Question of Systematic Unity 69 Systematic Unity and the Urform of Reason 69 Life Is the Schema of Freedom: The Will of Desire 71 and the Causality of Freedom The Antinomy of Aesthetic Judgment 74 The Unity of the Ideas of Reason and the Transcendental Ideal 76 as the Form of Forms Transcendental Modality: Unity as Grundsatz of Reason 78 Weltbegriffe and Naturbegriffe: The Limits of a Mathematical World 80 in the Face of the “Absolute Selbsttätigkeit” of Nature The Urform of Reason: ai( suna/pasai e)pisth=mai 81 The Logical Visage: The Prinzipien of Unity, Manifoldness, 84 and Continuity The Idea of the Maximum as the Analogon of the Schema 86 for the “Prinzipien der Vernunft” The Transcendental Ideas: The Figurative Guarantors of Reason’s Extension 88 Aesthetic Ideas, the Sublime, and the Internal Intuition 92 of the Supersensible Ground Genius: Autoepistemic Organ of Nature? 99 Chapter 4 The Timaeus Commentary 103 To Seek the Divine in Nature 103 Schelling’s Commentary on the Timaeus 112 The Divine Ideas of Reason 113 to\ kalo/n as the Ideal of Unity and Completeness 115 The World Soul as “The Ideal of the World”: Organic Life 119 as a Principle of Systematic Unity Immanent Preestablished Harmony: The Condition of Possibility of Einheit 124 viii Contents The Ideas: Existence Is Not a Predicate 128 The Threefold Form of All Knowing 130 Plato’s Urform 133 Chapter 5 On the Possibility of a Form 137 of All Philosophy: The Form Essay Schelling’s Original Insight 137 The Urform of All Forms 141 Kant’s Progressive Method: The Removal of the Time Condition 144 as the Condition of Comprehending an Absolute Magnitude Reciprocal Establishment of the Urform 151 The Progressive Method of Disjunctive Identity 153 The Urform of Relation 154 Philological Justification 156 Epistemic Positionality and the Removal of the Time-Condition 161 Form of Being Unconditionally Posited: ‘I = I’ 167 Form of the Conditioned: NichtIch = Nicht Ich (Nichtich ≠ Ich) 168 Form of Conditionality Determined by Unconditionality = Consciousness 168 Disjunctive Identity 170 Chapter 6 Freedom and the Construction 177 of Philosophy The Dynamic Process: Producing the System of Identity 177 The Self Versetzt: Freedom as the Postulate of Philosophy 189 The Method of Construction: Einbildung as the In-Eins-Bildung of Duality 191 Problematic: All Philosophy Is Construction 196 An Aesthetic Philosophy 199 The Construction of the Self: Theoretical Philosophy 201 and Unconscious Nature First Epoch: Productive Intuition of Sensation through the Restriction 203 of the Past Second Epoch: Transition from Blind Intuition to Reflection through 205 the Restriction of the Present Third Epoch: From Reflection to the Absolute Act of the Will 207 Contents ix The Derivation of the Categories from Time 208 Transition to Practical Philosophy: The Absolute Act of the Will 209 Time and Historicity 213 The Tense of the Absolute: Futurity 215 The Endless Process 217 Appendix “Eulogy Sung at Hahn’s Grave” 223 Notes 225 Index 277 x Contents ...