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Friedrich Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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Schelling by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1835
Born (1775-01-27)27 January 1775
Leonberg, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died 20 August 1854(1854-08-20) (aged 79)
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Alma mater Tübinger Stift, University of Tübingen
(1790–1795; MA 1792; PhD, 1795)
Leipzig University
(1797; no degree)
Era 19th-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School German idealism
Post-Kantian transcendental idealism
Objective idealism (after 1800)
Jena Romanticism
Romanticism in science
Naturphilosophie
Institutions University of Jena
University of Würzburg
University of Erlangen
University of Munich
University of Berlin
Main interests
Naturphilosophie, natural science, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion
Notable ideas
System of Naturphilosophie, (philosophy of identity), (positive philosophy), art as "the eternal organ and document of philosophy" whose basic character is an "unconscious infinity," (system of chemistry), coining the term "absolute idealism"

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German: [ˈʃɛlɪŋ]; 27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854), later (after 1812) von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him between Johann Gottlieb Fichte, his mentor in his early years, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, his former university roommate, early friend, and later rival. Interpreting Schelling's philosophy is regarded as difficult because of its apparently ever-changing nature.

Schelling's thought in the large has been neglected, especially in the English-speaking world, as has been his later work on mythology and revelation, much of which remains untranslated. An important factor was the ascendancy of Hegel, whose mature works portray Schelling as a mere footnote in the development of idealism. Schelling's Naturphilosophie also has been attacked by scientists for its analogizing tendency and lack of empirical orientation. However, some later philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Slavoj Žižek have shown interest in re-examining Schelling's body of work.

Schelling was born in the town of Leonberg in the Duchy of Württemberg (now Baden-Württemberg), the son of Joseph Friedrich Schelling and his wife Gottliebin Marie. He attended the monastic school at Bebenhausen, near Tübingen, where his father was chaplain and an Orientalist professor. From 1783 to 1784 Schelling attended a Latin school in Nürtingen and knew Friedrich Hölderlin, who was five years his senior. On 18 October 1790, at the age of 15, he then was granted permission to enroll at the Tübinger Stift (seminary of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg), despite not having yet reached the normal enrollment age of 20. At the Stift, he shared a room with Hegel as well as Hölderlin, and the three became good friends.


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