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By Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling

4 early essays via the good German thinker, whose works has been overlooked by way of the English-speaking international which stems not just from the ascendancy of Hegel, whose mature works painting Schelling as an insignificant footnote within the improvement of idealism, but in addition from his Naturphilosophie, which scientists have ridiculed for its "silly" analogizing and shortage of empirical orientation. in recent times, Schelling's paintings has been revisited via students placing him in accordance with his philosophy on the midpoint within the improvement of German Idealism, situating him among Fichte, his mentor ahead of 1800, and Hegel, his former college roommate and erstwhile pal. in recent times, his attractiveness as an immense thinker has risen with students. His effect and relation to the German paintings scene, rather to Romantic literature and visible artwork, has been a systematic curiosity seeing that past due Nineteen Sixties, from Philipp Otto Runge to Gerhard Richter and Joseph Beuys. on the subject of psychology, Schelling used to be thought of to have coined the time period "unconsciousness". a great learn.

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But no object ever realizes itself. In order to reach the existence of an object I must go beyond the [165] mere concept of the object. Its existence is not a part of its reality. I can think its reality without positing it as existing. " Also the question is not what God is for Himself, but what He is for us in regard to our knowledge. Even if we let God be the ground of the reality of His own knowledge, He is still not the ground of ours, because for us He is an object, which presupposes some reason in the chain of our knowledge that could determine His necessity for our knowledge.

There are readers who look at a hook flret ingly, in order to grasp quickly something that they can throw at the author as a criticism, or to find a passage that has been rendered incomprehensible by being taken out of context. By such means they can 63 64 THE UNCONDITIONAL IN HUMAN KNOWLEDGE [152,153] prove to anyone who has not read the work that the author has written nonsense. Thus, for instance, readers of that kind could say that in this essay Spinoza is spoken of very often, not (to use Lessing's expression) "as a dead dog,” and then— the logic of such people is all too well known — they could (jump to the conclusion that the author is trying to repeat Spinoza's errors, even though they have been refuted long ago.

Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known, Tis ours, to trace him only in our own. Pope: Essay on Man (Epigraph of the first edition) [151] Preface to the First Edition Instead of all the pleas with which a writer can meet his readers and critics, there in only one plea here to the readers and critics of this essay; either not to read it at all or to read it in its entire contexi, and either to refrain from judgment altogether or to judge the author by the whole work and not by separate passages taken out of context.

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