Week 8 – Schelling's Philosophy of Identity

This week we discuss Schelling’s Philosophy of Identity. We’ll look at further differences between his view and Fichte’s, as well as the ways in which Schelling adopts elements of Spinozism. Finally, we’ll also look at Schelling’s conception of intellectual intuition and its similarities and differences from Kant and Fichte’s notions.

Readings

Schelling:
- Presentation of My System of Philosophy (excerpt; up to §39)
- On Construction in Philosophy
Notes: Schelling’s Absolute Idealism (PDF)
Grads (pick one)
- Beiser, “Schelling’s Absolute Idealism”
- Vater, “Schelling’s philosophy of identity and Spinoza’s Ethica more geometrico”
- Breazeale, ““Exhibiting the particular in the universal”: philosophical construction and intuition in Schelling’s Philosophy of Identity (1801–1804)”