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Chapter 6 - “Identity of identity and non-identity”: Schelling’s path to the “absolute system of identity”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2014

Lara Ostaric
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Temple University, Philadelphia
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This chapter discusses which problem of modern philosophy Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling claim to have solved with their formula "the identity of identity and non-identity". It also discusses the stages through which Schelling's thinking, and following him that of Hegel, progressed, until he eventually reached his mature position, and which of the insights of his predecessors he incorporated into that position. It connects all the strands to bring out clearly the basic structure of Schelling's mature Philosophy of Identity. The chapter describes the reasons that eventually made Schelling unwilling to associate himself with the interpretation of his position his friend Hegel proposed. Plato's discussion of the world-soul and Immanuel Kant's concept of an organism were equally influential models for Schelling's theory of absolute spirit. Schelling didn't yet realize that Kant really took "being-at-the-same-time-cause-and-effect of itself" to be an idea, not a category.
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Interpreting Schelling
Critical Essays
, pp. 120 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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