First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of NatureAppearing here in English for the first time, this isF.W.J. Schelling's vital document of the attempts of German idealism and Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter induced by the modern reductionist program. Written in 1799 and building upon his earlier work, "First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature provides the most inclusive exposition of Schelling's philosophy of the natural world. He presents a startlingly contemporary model of an expanding and contracting universe; a unified theory of electricity, gravity magnetism, and chemical forces; and, perhaps most importantly, a conception of nature as a living and organic whole. |
Contents
Foreword to Schelling 1799 Edition | 3 |
Second Division | 71 |
Third Division | 105 |
Introduction to the Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature | 193 |
FAN CL | 221 |
Scientific Authors | 233 |
Notes | 239 |
71 | 241 |
EnglishGerman Glossary | 249 |
| 257 | |
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absolute according actants action already animal anorganic antithe antithesis appear atomistic becomes body canceled cause of excitability chemical affinity chemical process concept condition deduced deoxidation determinate difference diremption disease dynamical process Earth electrical process empiricism evolution existence explained expression factor force of reproduction formation formative drive functions galvanic graduated series gravity Hermann Krings heterogeneity higher homogeneous ical idea identity indecomposable indifference individual infinite infinite series infinity inhibited insofar intuition intussusception irritability Kant light magnetism means mechanism mediated movement Naturphilosophie negative object occupation of space opposed opposition organic activity organic nature organic product original duplicity Original note.—Trans oxygen phenomena phenomenon philosophy of nature positive possible presupposes principle priori productivity of Nature proportion receptivity reciprocal relation Schelling sensibility specific speculative physics spheres of affinity stage stimulus substances technical drive tendency tertium quid theory thought tion tricity ture universal Nature whole of Nature