Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
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"Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature" is Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s early work in which he develops a speculative, Romantic-influenced philosophy of nature that complements and prepares the ground for his later System of Transcendental Idealism.
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| First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature | 0 | 1 |
| Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur | 0 | 1 |
| Über den Einfluss des physischen Weltgebäudes auf die Ideenwelt | 0 | 1 |
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book
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philosophical work → |
| aim |
to complement transcendental idealism
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to develop a speculative philosophy of nature → to prepare the ground for System of Transcendental Idealism → |
| approximatePublicationPeriod | 1790s → |
| author | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling → |
| authorPhilosophicalPhase | Schelling’s early idealist period → |
| centralTheme |
identity of the ideal and the real in nature
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nature as dynamic, self-organizing process → speculative reconstruction of natural science → unity of nature and spirit → |
| concerns |
possibility of a systematic science of nature
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relation between philosophy and natural science → status of matter and forces in nature → |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany → |
| field |
metaphysics
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philosophy → philosophy of science → |
| genre | philosophy of nature → |
| historicalContext |
early phase of Schelling’s philosophy
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period of Jena Romanticism → |
| influenced |
19th-century philosophy of nature
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System of Transcendental Idealism → later German Romantic philosophy of nature → |
| influencedBy |
Analytic of the Beautiful
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Critique of Judgment
Immanuel Kant → Johann Gottlieb Fichte → Naturphilosophie →
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Romantic Naturphilosophie
contemporary natural science → |
| language | German → |
| method |
interpretation of empirical science within an idealist framework
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speculative deduction from first principles → |
| originalTitle |
Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
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Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur
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| philosophicalCategory | German Romantic Naturphilosophie classic → |
| philosophicalMovement | Romanticism → |
| philosophicalPosition |
nature and mind share a common ground
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nature exhibits teleological organization → nature is not mere mechanism but living productivity → |
| philosophicalSchool | Naturphilosophie → |
| philosophicalTradition |
German idealism
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German Idealism
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| publicationCentury | 18th century → |
| relatedWork |
Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
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First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature
System of Transcendental Idealism → |
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Über den Einfluss des physischen Weltgebäudes auf die Ideenwelt
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
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Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur
Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
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First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature