This is an English translation of Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (first published in 1797 and revised in 1803), one of the most significant works in the German tradition of philosophy of nature and early nineteenth-century philosophy of science. It stands in opposition to the Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles, and argues i...
This is an English translation of Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (first published in 1797 and revised in 1803), one of the most significant works in the German tradition of philosophy of nature and early nineteenth-century philosophy of science. It stands in opposition to the Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles, and argues instead for matter as an equilibrium of active forces that engage in dynamic polar opposition to one another. In the revisions of 1803 Schelling incorporated this dialectical view into a neo-Platonic conception of an original unity divided upon itself. The text is of more than simply historical interest: its daring and original vision of nature, philosophy, and empirical science will prove absorbing reading for all philosophers concerned with post-Kantian German idealism, for scholars of German Romanticism, and for historians of science.
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What was it, then, you ask, that drove all these men to forsake the common ways of thinking of their age and to invent systems opposed to everything that the great mass of people have always believed and imagined? It was a free inspiration, which elevated them into a sphere where you no longer even understand their task, while on the other hand many things became inconceivable to them, which seem very simple and understandable to you. (查看原文)
If in the end we go back to the original source of the dualistic belief, that a soul distinct from the body dwells at least in me, then what is it in me which itself in turn judges that I consist of body and soul, and what is this I which is supposed to consist of body and soul? (查看原文)
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