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The grounding of positive philosophy: The Berlin lectures
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January 2007

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F.W.J. Schelling

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B. Matthews

The Berlin lectures in The Grounding of Positive Philosophy, appearing here for the first time in English, advance Schelling's final "existential system" as an alternative to modernity's reduction of philosophy to a purely formal science of reason. The onetime protégé of Fichte and benefactor of Hegel, Schelling accuses German Idealism of dealing "with the world of lived experience just as a surgeon who promises to cure your ailing leg by amputating it." Schelling's appeal in Berlin for a positive, existential philosophy found an interested audience in Kierkegaard, Engels, Feuerbach, Marx, and Bakunin. His account of the ecstatic nature of existence and reason proved to be decisive for the work of Paul Tillich and Martin Heidegger. Also, Schelling's critique of reason's quixotic attempt at self-grounding anticipates similar criticisms leveled by poststructuralism, but without sacrificing philosophy's power to provide a positive account of truth and meaning. The Berlin lectures provide fascinating insight into the thought processes of one of the most provocative yet least understood thinkers of nineteenth-century German philosophy.

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... 7 Compare Schelling's comment on the Hegelian interpretation of the Trinitarian stasis, which strongly emphasizes the material actualisation of the world as the finite other of God: "According to all philosophical concepts, it is here that the son is explicitly made into the matter of the world; for through this, that he is not merely a different being, but that he is also posited as a different being, will he become the world. Consequently, as long as he is still the son, as in the stated distinction, the son comports himself as the possibility, as the matter of the world to come [13] (p. 175). ...

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“Humbled onto Death”: Kenosis and Tsimtsum as the Two Models of Divine Self-Negation
The grounding of positive philosophy: The Berlin lectures
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  • January 2007