System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)System of Transcendental Idealism is probably Schelling's most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication in 1800 came seven years after Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and seven years before Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. |
Contents
Introduction | 5 |
PART | 15 |
Deduction of the Principle Itself | 21 |
General Observations | 31 |
PART THREE | 42 |
From Original Sensation | 51 |
To explain how the Self intuits itself | 60 |
Theory of Productive Intuition | 72 |
General Note upon the First Epoch On Mind | 90 |
General Note upon the Second Epoch | 131 |
Transcendental Abstraction of the Concept | 139 |
General Note upon the Third Epoch | 151 |
Additional Remarks | 171 |
PART FIVE | 215 |
Philosophy | 229 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute synthesis abstraction act of self-consciousness already appear arises become objective becomes an object boundary category of relation concept condition consciousness contradiction deduced derived determinacy determined directed empirical empiricism enquiry everything exists explain explicable external world fact Fichte finite force free act free action freedom ground Hence ideal activity ideal and real immediately independent individual infinite infinity inner sense insofar intellectual intuition intelligence ject Kantian knowing latter Leibniz likewise limited means mechanism merely nature necessarily necessary objective world once opposed opposition organic outer intuition outer sense passivity posited possible practical philosophy precisely present presupposes principle productive intuition proposition pure question reality reciprocity reflection relation restricted restrictedness Schelling Schelling's Science of Knowledge sciousness self-determination self-intuition self's sensation simply simultaneously solely space substance succession synthetic synthetic propositions theoretical philosophy therein thereof thing thing-in-itself tion tive transcendental idealism transcendental philosophy uncon unconscious whereby whole wholly